Earlier this week a good friend of mine, who works in technology, asked me a question – what’s the difference between product strategy and a product roadmap? It turns out …
Core Product Team Performance and Size
In our latest market research we asked two questions related to core product teams. By “core” we mean the central members who play a day-to-day role in product development activities. …
Innovation: Product Management’s Sweet Spot
Organizations value innovation. While everyone agrees that innovation is an important activity the effective execution of innovation activities is often more difficult to achieve. In fact, we have found that the …
Product Development Methodology Adoption Rate Trend Line: 2012 To 2015
Over the last four years we have been closely tracking adoption rates for various product development methodologies. It has been fascinating to track the exponential rise of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum. …
Product Development Methodology Utilization in 2015
In 2012 we began tracking product development methodology utilization by product teams and their organizations. It has been interesting to watch the exponential rise of Agile (Scrum in particular) and the precipitous fall …
Unforeseen Issues: Nimbleness Matters
Unforeseen issues are common to all product teams. In this year’s Study of Product Team Performance our latest regression analysis illustrates that a teams ability to quickly recover from an …