What are the current and expected market conditions and what does that mean for product people (whether looking for a new opportunity or seeking to grow in an existing role)? What do companies want from product people and do product people need to adjust to meet these needs? How do you prepare for the year ahead? What strategies and tactics can be deployed to see out the current climate and thrive long-term?

Managing stakeholders is the hardest part of the job, yet nobody talks about it. In this session you’ll learn from Bruce’s mistakes (so you don’t have to repeat them) and gain the tools and techniques they’ve developed over decades in software for getting your whole company aligned behind your product’s success.

Some founders think they are the next Steve Jobs, but are they? Or when they invoke "founder mode" are they just micromanaging things they no longer understand?

Let's unpack why founders do this, when it's useful, when it's not -- and how to tell the difference. We'll also talk about how to turn founder mode into an opportunity for real positive change.

Bruce McCarthy will lead a CPO online discussion on Founder Mode: Poison pill or silver bullet? Thursday, November 7 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET.

Join us for a rich, delicious coffee chat with Bruce McCarthy, product leader and co-author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched and his latest, Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders, written with Melissa Appel. Bruce will dive into why he calls stakeholder management "the hardest of the soft skills" and share fresh insights from his book on managing these complex relationships.

Coach Phil Hornby will lead a CPO discussion on It Depends: Making Product Decisions in Context. Thursday October 10 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET.

Phil Hornby will lead a workshop designed to help you create the most impactful roadmap you've ever made.

Phil Hornby will speak on Roadmaps: the Key to Great Product Decisions

Building alignment is a critical function of product management, as it ensures that stakeholders are unified in their efforts, reducing miscommunication and conflicting goals. Bruce McCarthy, founder of Product Culture, will reveal the secrets to the essential but often overlooked skill of stakeholder management.

Coach Nuno Silva Pereira is a business agility expert and OKR coach. He will lead a CPO discussion on OKRs – your ticket to organizational change.

Building alignment is a critical function of product management, as it ensures that stakeholders are unified in their efforts, reducing miscommunication and conflicting goals. Bruce McCarthy, founder of Product Culture, will reveal the secrets to the essential but often overlooked skill of stakeholder management.

Building alignment is a critical function of product management, as it ensures that stakeholders are unified in their efforts, reducing miscommunication and conflicting goals. Bruce McCarthy, founder of Product Culture, will reveal the secrets to the essential but often overlooked skill of stakeholder management.

Coach Melissa Appel is the speaker on Secrets of Stakeholder Management: Learn about the real org chart, how to handle power players, how to influence without authority, and what happens if you don’t.

Coach Phil Hornby will lead a CPO discussion on Portfolio Roadmapping, Thursday July 25 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET.

We’ve just turned in our book, Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders, to the publisher. Now it’s time to enjoy ourselves… and you’re invited! 

We’ve just turned in our book, Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders, to the publisher. Now it’s time to enjoy ourselves… and you’re invited! 

We’ve just turned in our book, Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders, to the publisher. Now it’s time to enjoy ourselves… and you’re invited! 

Bruce McCarthy and Melissa Appel will share some stakeholder horror stories, and what they learned. Bring your own to share! By breaking the art of stakeholder management down, they show product managers how to strengthen the crucial relationships that will help you make an impact.

After aligning everyone around a roadmap, you might think the task is complete. Very often, however, maintaining alignment on a roadmap over time is more difficult than establishing it in the first place.

Coach Phil Hornby will be speaking on Going Beyond the "Now-Next-Later" Roadmap May 2.

Coach Phil Hornby will be speaking on How to Create Your Best Roadmap!

How can you take a team of infighting execs, each with their own goals and turn them into a disciplined team with a single shared purpose?

Spending is getting a lot of scrutiny. As a CPO, how do you justify where you are spending your company's limited funds? Product Culture’s Coach Melissa Appel will be leading an open discussion for CPOs on this topic, February 29 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET.

Coach Phil Hornby will be speaking on Going Beyond the "Now-Next-Later" Roadmap for the ProductTank Cologne, February 26.

Many organizations struggle to separate the roadmap from the delivery of features. Often this is accompanied by a lack of vision and strategy. How do you ensure that your roadmap isn’t just a dressed up project plan?

Stakeholders often want committed dates in your roadmap, not now/next/later. How do you retrain them to see the roadmap as a strategic artifact, not a delivery plan?

Phil Hornby, a coach at Product Culture, will be speaking on ProductTank Frankfurt at ProductTank Frankfurt December 6. Most roadmaps are bad because of a few fundamental things. So, there is a good chance yours isn’t great. I’ve seen a lot of them and spoken to many experts and practitioners about the problems. I want to share the key insights I've gathered to help you create a great roadmap and guide your product to success.