Many product management teams struggle to deal with constant stakeholder requests. Let’s get you out of that rat race by changing the conversation. In this talk I’ll help you go from “dealing with requests” to “collaborative decision making.” By working with your stakeholders instead of against them, you can achieve your product goals without the constant negotiation and flip flop changes.

Bring the stories of your most challenging stakeholders and join Bruce McCarthy and Melissa Appel for an engaging [and likely therapeutic] Q&A on World Product Day. Navigate the complexities of stakeholder management with insights from the experts. Online from ProductTank Richmond.

Product Culture coach Phil Hornby will be speaking on Empowered to Succeed: Decision Making in Product at La Product Conf Paris.

How do we empower teams to make better decisions? We will explore how product organizations can create an environment where teams are equipped to make impactful choices, maintain focus on value, and ensure that everyone is aligned toward shared goals.

Join us for a stimulating Speaker Fireside/Q&A session with Phil Hornby, UK's top product leadership coach and founder of for product people. We will be discussing a range of topics including:

• Empowered Teams

• Decision making

• Roadmapping

• Product as a business

• Other topics from the panel and audience

Join Bruce McCarthy & Melissa Appel in a moderated virtual fireside as they share the origins of "Aligned" and tease key themes. Discover how their book fills a crucial gap in stakeholder management and prepare to dive deeper with a live Q&A in six weeks.

Join us for an engaging and interactive workshop, hosted by Melissa Appel, author of Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders and WIP Boston Co-Lead, where you'll put your stakeholder management skills to the test!

Collaborate with your CPO to improve the foundation on which the product team is operating. In software, having a solid platform can make feature delivery faster. For product teams, having a solid foundation will enable the product team to deliver value better and faster than scrambling (and with less attrition).

Product Culture coach Phil Hornby speaks on Going beyond the "Now-Next-Later" Roadmap in Belfast. Roadmaps are a visual tool used to communicate and align many audiences. Yet why do most of them just look so boring? Now-Next-Later is a great start in breaking bad patterns but there’s more to rethinking the roadmap. Great ones show goals, priority and optionality. They capture direction, discovery and delivery. Yet they stay simple enough for everyone to understand. Learn about 14 visual styles you can choose from to deliver the message and keep the audience interested. Let’s turn your roadmaps from dull documents into powerful tools.

Coach Phil Hornby will be on the podcast Product Confidential speaking about what it takes to craft a perfect product roadmap for your organization. Should you use a now, next, later roadmap? How can you manage roadmaps across multiple teams?

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.