We all want to to ship quality products frequently. But too often individuals, teams, and companies are limited by resources or struggle with getting buy-in to move forward. This hinders progress and innovation!
Yesterday I was interviewed by Cindy Solomon of Global Product Management Talk. During the interview we discussed how lean product development methodologies provide strategies for building and shipping products that people love. We dug into my approach for product development within the context of operating on a lean team. I defined lean teams as one that is limited by resources (time, budget, and talent) and can reside in either a startup or big company.
There were 5 questions that we covered during the talk:
- How do companies usually structure product teams? Is this the most effective structuring? Could there be a better way?
- Agile is considered an alternative to waterfall, but what are some of its shortcomings?
- How do most people foster collaboration across different roles (engineering, design,product management, product marketing, and sales)?
- What are the biggest hurdles to getting buy-in for product vision and roadmaps?
- Do organizations acknowledge silos? What are their attempts to break them down?
You can listen to my answers and the full talk here.
