Lenny’s Podcast112 min
Melissa Perri · Jul 28, 2022
Key learnings- The product owner role came from Scrum as a way to help developers prioritize work, not from product management, so it often…
- Frameworks like SAFe are heavily marketed and often adopted rigidly; Perri has seen most teams that found success end up ripping…
- Teams that already talk to customers and iterate quickly may not need a framework at all; the principle of shipping value and…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriMay 24, 2020
May 24, 2020
Melissa Perri argues that product leaders should deliberately invest in "the product of you" and plan their career path toward product leadership. Beyond building core skills, aspiring leaders need to decide what kind…
SVPG · Marty CaganDec 20, 2021
Dec 20, 2021 · 17 min
Marty Cagan argues that 'Product Ops' has become a vague label, with at least six distinct meanings in companies today, making a claim that a company 'has Product Ops' nearly meaningless. He reviews five models he finds…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriDec 23, 2020
Dec 23, 2020
Melissa Perri announces the launch of a new podcast, Product Thinking, built around answering questions submitted by the Product Management community. The post previews three example topics: escaping an individual…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriMar 24, 2020
Mar 24, 2020 · 4 min
Melissa Perri recounts how her consulting work began by sneaking product management into companies under buzzwords like agile and digital, since 'product management' itself got doors shut. Executives' stated reason for…
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X♥ 9
Product teams need to think like investors—understand the real cost, focus on ROI, and balance risk to drive outcomes. Fabrice des Mazery, former CPO at TheFork, shares how shifting to an investment mindset leads to smarter decisions and impact. Listen:
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X♥ 9
Scaling product teams is hard. Delivering consistent outcomes while keeping things simple is even harder. Mark Rosenberg, VP of Product at @Workday shares how revamping ProdOps reduced complexity, aligned teams, and delivered better outcomes at scale. 🎧
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X♥ 9
Compliance can become an opportunity for innovation. This week on Product Thinking, @tomerlondon, CPO at @GustoHQ, shares how embedding lawyers in product teams ensures compliance is part of the process. 🎙️Listen now:
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriAug 3, 2020
Aug 3, 2020 · 4 min
Melissa Perri argues that the sudden shift to distributed work during COVID left many teams disconnected, and that the core problem is missing the informal stories and interactions that build trust and candor. She…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriAug 18, 2020
Aug 18, 2020 · 11 min
Melissa Perri interviews two product leaders, Alicia Hurst (Group PM at JW Player, hiring for an NYC team) and Vibhor Chhabra (VP of Product at TaxJar, a company that has always been fully remote), about hiring…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriJul 16, 2020
Jul 16, 2020 · 6 min
Melissa Perri interviews Brian Bhuta, CPO at Signify Health, about how product leaders gain trust and influence, especially when joining a team full of resistance. Bhuta argues that influence is an advanced form of…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriJul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 · 7 min
Melissa Perri argues that when several product teams must deliver a shared cross-team integration, companies need a deliberate coordination model or the work stalls. She describes two strategies: dual responsibility…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriJan 2, 2020
Jan 2, 2020 · 5 min
Melissa Perri and Kevin Broom argue that SaaS companies chasing net retention above 100% through land-and-expand can clash with customers who believe their subscription already covers new features. Using fast food menus…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriJul 11, 2020
Jul 11, 2020 · 5 min
In this interview from Melissa Perri's CPO Accelerator series, Abbie Moore, CPO of the non-profit Adopt-A-Pet, explains that product leadership at a non-profit shares most fundamentals with for-profit work: customer…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriDec 17, 2019
Dec 17, 2019 · 4 min
Melissa Perri argues that a product roadmap is a communication tool, not just a planning artifact, so it deserves deliberate design for each audience. She covers practical choices: consistent color coding, quarterly…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriJul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 · 6 min
Melissa Perri argues that a new Chief Product Officer must shift from viewing executives as obstacles to seeing them as teammates with their own goals and constraints. The essay stresses that the CEO relationship is the…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriMay 13, 2020
May 13, 2020 · 3 min
Melissa Perri describes how a typical remote staff meeting can waste the chance to connect and align a team, and argues that remote work mainly amplifies existing meeting problems. She interviews product leaders at…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriMar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020 · 6 min
Melissa Perri shares advice gathered from experienced operators on what product leaders should prioritize during the COVID-19 crisis. Her core argument is that survival comes first: preserve cash, shift the roadmap…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriMar 28, 2020
Mar 28, 2020
Melissa Perri argues that product leaders planning a company's next phase should survey a standard set of growth strategies rather than fixate on a single path. She organizes 16 options around three business objectives…