Product Leaders

Uniting teams around shared objectives: 4 tips for evangelizing your product vision and strategy

Product leaders must become the greatest evangelists of their product vision and strategy, taking every opportunity to build alignment within their teams and beyond.

Dottie Schrock

Stephen M. Walker II

3 best practices for building stakeholder alignment as a product leader

Product leaders who create strong alignment within their organizations build more successful products and deliver those products to market, faster.

Dottie Schrock

Stephen M. Walker II

Shilpa Sarkar explains what a permanent shift to remote means for the future of product management

Shilpa Sarkar offers her thoughts on confronting the biggest changes and challenges related to product management in a remote work environment, and also looked further ahead at where the field may be heading in the long term. 

Dottie Schrock

Jessica Levy Kania

4 principles for optimizing the structure of your product organization

The optimal product team structure drives alignment through clear ownership and collaboration — but the process to get there can be challenging. Here are four principles for organizing your scaling product teams and best practices to ensure a smooth transition.

Dottie Schrock

Stephen M. Walker II

Cross-functional collaboration Q&A: Why and how does communication break down? (Pt. 1)

This post is part one of a two-part series to understand the challenges of cross-functional communication, why it’s worth fighting for, and winning strategies from the field. 

Dottie Schrock

Jessica Levy Kania

Why product leaders must master the art of storytelling

Storytelling is a critical skill for product leaders when they need to motivate their teams or bring the wider business on board with their product vision and strategy.

Dottie Schrock

Petra Wille

Up-level your career: Sharpening your product management skillset

We’re thrilled to launch our new virtual how-to series designed to equip product people with the fundamental skills, knowledge, and tools required to build today’s most beloved products.

Dottie Schrock

Productboard Editorial

8 empowering reads on diversity written by women in product

8 empowering reads from women leading the crusade for more diversity in product management.

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock

16 product management resolutions from leaders at Amplitude, Loom, Gong, Miro & more!

16 product management resolutions from leaders at Amplitude, Loom, Gong, Miro & more!

Tony Lee

Tony Lee

What does it take to become an excellent product leader?

John Cutler, Rich Mironov, Petra Wille, and Shilpa Sarkar weigh in on what it takes to be an excellent product leader and build empowered product teams.

Dottie Schrock

Shane Schick

Structuring scaling product teams to prevent silos

As a product leader, it’s your responsibility to build alignment while scaling and prevent silos from happening

Dottie Schrock

Shane Schick

Building customer-centric products, processes, and cultures

Most product people agree that customer-centricity is important. But what does it mean to truly create customer-centric products, processes, and cultures?

Dottie Schrock

Melissa Suzuno