Product Makers Summit 2023
MASTER YOUR IMPACT
Attending the Product Maker’s Summit 2023 by Productboard earlier this week was a grounding reminder for me to seek inspiration and embrace a growth mindset in the field where the only constant is change.
The summit was a testament to the power of cross-pollination of ideas and insights to accelerate growth. I’m grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this incredible community and I look forward to staying connected with the product leaders I met at the summit.
Here are my top moments from the event:
“Great product managers understand that a product is not a project. They understand that a great product is never finished, never done. There is always the next iteration, next version, and next enhancement”
Hubert Palan: From Good to Great: The Anatomy of a Product Manager
“In the environment of constant product innovation where we constantly feel like we don’t have enough time and there is a tremendous risk to be disconnected from our peers, disconnection is bad not only for our well-being, it is terrible for innovation and so as product leaders and individuals trying to innovate in the product environment we need to somehow figure out how to quickly build connection all while optimizing our collective creative output.”
Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, MD: Building Creativity and Connection in Product Teams
“Align on what good looks like for the customer at every stage.”
Lauren Creedon: Product Management Trends and Priorities
“Built, Learnt, Planning, Demo takes the normal sprint demo and adds to it what have we learnt and what are we planning. This makes us to not just follow plans but make new plans, change plans as we learn new things. This forces us to do research and acts as a forcing function.”
Holly Hester-Reilly: Becoming a High Growth Product Leader with Continuous Discovery
“Focus upstream on strategic prioritizations, putting the right bets (informed experiments) in the flow of work so that you can bring features to market that customers care about and solves the strategic objectives of the company.”
Jay Malone: Prioritizing Strategic Outcomes
“Alive strategy iterates, dead strategy starts from scratch. Alive strategy anticipates risk, dead strategy hides them. Alive strategy engages with the ecosystem, dead strategy engages with a point in time. Alive strategy makes bets, dead strategy knows the future. Alive strategy evolves with the customer, dead strategy stays static. Alive strategy has a clear, repeatable purpose. Dead strategy is muddled.”
Adam Thomas: Zombie Strategy is Useless- Transform Your Strategy Document From Artifact to Alive
“You need safety in order to plan at the cusp of what you’re learning.”
Anna Marie Clifton: Commitments and Chaos: A Roadmap for Road Mapping Success
