Why Your Organisation Needs ProductOps

How to boost growth by making your product teams more efficient

Product teams are busier than ever. We have more data to manage and make sense of, and more stakeholders to understand and keep up to date. There are emerging technologies which we need to assess and get up to speed with. We need to stay on top of current trends and make sure we rise above internal politics among different stakeholders and competing priorities.

This easily leads to some common problems. There can be a lack of alignment across teams meaning inconsistent decision making. Work can quickly become disorganised, and time wasted. The potential to learn from each other is reduced and we struggle to keep our stakeholders inspired and on the journey.

All of this adds up to being less efficient and less effective — a combination that can get in the way of growth.

Enter ProductOps.

The goal of ProductOps is to increase efficiency. ProductOps diagnoses problems the product team faces, from the tools they’re using to challenges with leadership, and works to fix them.

Though the term might be relatively new, good product teams have been sharing ProductOps work between roles for years. Lately, it’s started to gain popularity as a skill set, role…