The Chocolate Cake Problem: Not Letting Stakeholders Own Your Roadmap

In my experience, internal stakeholders never actually align on their priorities or demands. They are also constantly adding “small” things to their lists of urgent work. How do we understand the underlying behavior patterns, and can we avoid having stakeholders own the roadmap? Rich Mironov is a 40-year veteran of Silicon Valley product management, including six startups. He coaches product leaders, helps design software product organizations, and sometimes parachutes into software companies as the interim VP Products/CPO. He been blogging about software product management since 2002, wrote “The Art of Product Management” and is thrilled to return to New Zealand.