As part of this year’s Study of Product Team Performance we asked product team members to describe the nature of their relationship with marketing or product marketing. We know from …
Should Product Teams Understand Their Product’s Sales Cycle?
The Product Team’s Knowledge of the Sales Cycle While the data show the majority of product teams have managed to strike a strong relationship with their organization’s sales team, with only occasional …
Are Project Managers Valued Anymore?
The project management profession has been evolving alongside the emergence of Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, which has forced a degree of professional self-reflection on the role of the project manager in an Agile …
Product Development Process Adoption: Can the Past Predict the Future?
What Our Product Development Process Adoption Data Shows We have been tracking adoption rates for a variety of product development processes since 2012. This is the first year that we …
How Actionable Are Your Product Team’s Requirements?
Where Does Your Team Fall On The Requirements Continuum? Regardless of methodology used only 15% of product teams indicate that they benefit from consistently actionable requirements. Nearly two-thirds of survey responders indicate …
Training’s ROI According to Andy Grove
I recently started a book by Ben Horowitz entitled “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.” Ben covers a wide range to topics which are particularly pertinent to CEO’s and entrepreneurs …