Every month, we get together with all our clients in The Prodify Guild to share best practices across a variety of product topics. This month, we did a special session on Wartime #ProductManagement, led by Co-Founder @fosterinnovates. Key takeaways: 🧵

Fast way to lose trust with users - a lack of transparency Will be switching from Uber Eats as I’m regularly seeing them mark up menu prices with no callout

What’s the most innovative you’ve seen in the employee performance review / feedback space? Ex connecting employee feedback to standard performance rubrics, more frequent feedback, building development plans based on peer feedback, etc

One factor separates great product managers from those who’ve perpetually struggled. It’s not experience, domain knowledge, or anything else easily identified on a resume. So, what is it? A product mindset. hubs.ly/Q01N_Ch60

Learn from a great CPO - @fosterinnovates! I wouldn’t be the product leader I am today had I not learned from him when we worked together at Opower #productmanagement

Any recommendations for a great person or agency who makes *SaaS* product marketing / launch videos? Many Google searches suggest this is a gap in the market. Bonus points if it’s AI powered - ex share product / feature page and a video and it autogenerates the content

See if any of these dysfunctions are happening at your company, and how to address each one if they are!

No customer cares about your ARR. They care whether your product helps them achieve their key outcome better, faster, cheaper. How much time are you spending on what they want vs what your company wants?

PM Dysfunction #3 - The Ivory Tower, as explained by our co-founders Rajesh Nerlikar and @fosterinnovates. If you want to be a customer-centric product team, you have to talk to your customers, prospects and users regularly. Read more to see how to address this issue.

You can’t iterate your way to innovative products for customers. Unless you work on a product with lots of users, experiments should be a small part of your roadmap

gotta stop the never-ending factory (or some part of it) to break this cycle. it's not sustainable and it's probably not creating as much customer value as the team thinks

Join @fosterinnovates, co-founder of Prodify and former WHOOP CPO, for a free masterclass on August 11, hosted by Gigantic. The topic is: "Leading Product through Hypergrowth. Learn more and reserve a spot at eventbrite.com/e/leading-prod…. #ProductManagement #leadership

We are excited to announce the 2nd cohort of our Product Leadership course with Gigantic and Product Collective starting August 21! This is for new product leaders, led by @fosterinnovates, Rajesh Nerlikar, Sara Zalowitz and David Jesse. Learn more: gigantic.is/prodify. 1/3

#ProductManagement Dysfunction #6, as defined by our co-founders Rajesh Nerlikar and @fosterinnovates: The Business School. Often business cases use inaccurate assumptions and projections. Can you use other rationale to explain the ROI on major product investments?

#ProductManagement Dysfunction #7, as defined by our co-founders Rajesh Nerlikar and @fosterinnovates: The Roller Coaster. You can expect lots of product pivots after a product launch. If you feel there are too many for your product's stage, you might be on The Roller Coaster.

#ProductManagement dysfunction #8, as defined by our co-founders Rajesh Nerlikar and @fosterinnovates: The Bridge to Nowhere. Are you over-engineering your product or feature, or investing a lot of time on unnecessary infrastructure? You might be suffering from this issue

This is probably the most common issue I see with PMs/the role of product at a company: play roadmap Tetris to keep as many stakeholders happy as possible Focus on your customers and users. Your colleagues’ satisfaction will follow from that.

#ProductManagement Dysfunction #10, from our co-founders Rajesh Nerlikar and @fosterinnovates: The Throne Room. When asked to pivot, seek additional rationale for the change and the timing. Ensure the team and customer costs of wrapping up work / changing direction are known.

Join Prodify & David Jesse for a free workshop "Addressing the top 10 Dysfunctions of Product Management." We'll discuss PM failure modes & how to combat them. 📆 January 11 @ 11a PT/2p ET 🎟️ Register for free: eventbrite.com/e/how-to-addre… Learn more: prodify.group/blog/how-to-ov…

Shout out to Austin Water and WaterSmart’s leak detection alert. Just figured out the backyard spigot was left on and the hose was leaking!!