As organizations move from a single product to multiple products, product managers, and product teams, they find the processes of the past simply do not scale. Each product team seems to be following their own processes. …

Chris Butler will be hosting the “The Product Mindset” at the Product-Led Festival, October 19–21, 2021.

Chris will be diving into how the product mindset is more than product sense or taste, it’s embracing the way the world works and what that means for the certainty (or uncertainty) of what…

If a voice platform like Alexa or Google Home Hub doesn’t prioritize communal computing, how should skill developers build for everyone in the home and office?

In this recent article with Opus Research, I give advice for skill developers to make their skills more communal and the case for platforms…

What if Netflix was a military contractor?

What if mercenaries had to deal with all of the systems that gig workers are required to comply with?

How does detection of patterns (and randomness) impact military planning as machine learning and compute starts to become commodified?

Should you keep a d20…

Objectives and key results (OKRs) are a great way for you to align and provide feedback to teams about how they fit into the strategy of your organization. …

What is core work that should be incentivized for product operations?

In this article I make the case that “glue” work is exactly that.

However, it is not doing what product people consider a waste of their time.

If you use objective and key results (OKRs) as part of your practice you have probably struggled to make them fit together across the organization. …

Do you feel like the number of processes you need to adhere to slow things down? Are there too many meetings you need to attend to get any work done?

An often forgotten part of product operations is about destroying processes and meetings that don’t make sense anymore.

Let me tell you how in my latest post with the Product-Led Alliance on “Product ops is creative destruction!”