Building Got Cheap. The Bottleneck Moved. (What Product Leaders Still Own)

If AI made building cheap, why isn't your product getting better faster? Assess how you're doing as a product leader with the free Product Excellence Index: https://leadingproductexcellence.com/... For most of my career, building was the slow, expensive part of product. Not anymore. In this episode I use the Theory of Constraints from Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal to explain what changed: the constraint on product teams moved from building to learning. Ship faster without learning faster and you just pile up features, complexity and confused customers. I share what I learned at Novell, Vivint and Lucid, what the head of product still owns, and five practical moves to put your team on the learning constraint. Want to walk through your Index results with me? Book a Product Excellence Index Deep Dive: https://leadingproductexcellence.com/... ABOUT DAN Dan Lawyer has spent nearly three decades in product, with leadership roles at Adobe, Ancestry, Vivint and Lucid. He coaches CPOs and aspiring product executives and is currently writing a book on leading product with excellence. The idea in this episode comes from the Preface and Chapter 7 (Maximize the Speed of Learning) of the upcoming book. The Theory of Constraints and the five focusing steps are from Eliyahu M. Goldratt (The Goal, with Jeff Cox, 1984). Keywords: theory of constraints, The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt, bottleneck, five focusing steps, product leadership, chief product officer, CPO, head of product, VP of product, AI product management, speed of learning, product strategy, product excellence