Category: Product

Did you just get a promotion? Did your product peers go from friends, to being part of the team you now lead? Have you ever done this before? It’s no wonder why the sense of achievement you’d expect to feel might be missing; leading humans is hard, can be terrifying, and if you get it wrong there are big consequences

In Part 2 of this blog post series we’ll go deeper into what the Competing Values Framework means when looking at an organisation, and talk about how best to interpret it for your team.

This is the second year we’ve published the Australia and New Zealand Product Teams Report, which pulls together findings from an industry-wide survey, insights from senior tech leaders, and recommendations based on our people’s own experience.

Having worked with hundreds of product teams in organisations of many shapes and sizes, we’re in a unique position to understand many of the challenges teams face, as well as the ways they might improve. One of the tools we use to identify how teams are working and what might be holding them back is the Competing Values Framework.

As a Product Manager, I delight in how the collaboration of a product brain and a design brain will always give a better outcome than just one of those brains going solo. However, the reality is, sometimes product peeps have to go it alone when doing user research. I want to reassure you that as a product person, you can do this and get some really valuable insights by following these basic rules.

Great product teams understand and solve complex problems in innovative ways, and great user stories help them remember the people they’re building for – the consumers of their product experience.