If you have worked in product management long enough, you know that not every conversation ends in full agreement. Priorities shift, pressure comes from different directions, and decisions don’t always fit easily into the plan. Every Product Owner should understand BATNA – the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement.
Negotiation is an important part of Product Management. And not only. Whether we realize it or not, we negotiate every day with stakeholders, teams, customers, and even ourselves. The challenge? Negotiation in Product Management isn’t about deciding who is a winner. It’s about working through different priorities and perspectives, finding common ground, and making the best choices for the product, the business, and the customers.
Product Managers and Product Owners frequently have to balance market needs, user experience, customer outcomes, and technical feasibility. However, the financial point of view in product development is equally important but often gets overlooked.
As is tradition, Scrum.org releases a new training every September! This time, it continues expanding the Product Management portfolio.
While working with organizations on defining their product value, I have noticed that outputs are often confused with outcomes. Products and companies are mostly focused on outputs and company impacts, while outcomes seem to be ignored.
Measuring Value is one of the most essential activities in product management. For instance, for Product Owners and Managers, this process is a background for making informed decisions about the future of the product and assessing the current value and state of a product.
Having a Product Roadmap for a single product seems to be a standard in Product Management. This visual aid helps with a general product overview without unnecessary details. Increases conversations with stakeholders and creates transparency and shared understanding.
Product Owners must know their customers to succeed in today’s competitive markets. There is a common agreement among experts involved in product management about it. A lot has been said about this topic. In this blog post, I discuss the different ways to know your customers. To make it more practical, I share some tools to ease application in the work environment.
Interestingly, so many organizations have revenue or profit as their Product Goals as well as Strategic Goals. Some organizations do not consider using Product Goals
How often have you been exposed to the conflict or different objectives between departments? If never, congratulations! You have probably seen and experienced healthy environments, meaningful
