Stripe's 2018 Developer Coefficient study surveyed developers across 300+ companies and found that engineers spend 33% of their working hours dealing with technical debt. Not building features. Not...
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Most product management advice treats stakeholder conflict as a communication problem. Improve your status updates, align on OKRs, share the roadmap earlier. But the hardest stakeholder conflicts...
Three years into running IT operations at a regional telecom, I noticed a pattern that changed how I thought about product feedback. Every quarter, the product team presented interview findings that...
Build, Buy, or Partner: The Strategic Decision Behind Every Product Roadmap
Adobe agreed to pay $20 billion for Figma in September 2022. Fifteen months later, regulators killed the deal, and Adobe wrote a $1 billion termination check. By mid-2025, Figma's independent...
Simon-Kucher & Partners studied more than 10,000 product launches across three decades. The finding that should concern every product manager: 72% of new products fail to meet their financial targets...
The Sponsor Strategy: How Product Managers Find the Career Advocates Who Actually Get Them Promoted
Mentors give advice. Sponsors get you promoted. Learn the framework product managers use to identify, earn, and cultivate the senior advocates who put their names forward in the rooms where career...