All Things Product

I have talked a lot about my wins; the moments where clarity, alignment, and persistence changed everything. Where I was the hero. It is my blog, I can do that. But there have also been times when it was not enough, times when I messed up and times when I gave up. Times when there were no winners. I was at a company for about a year when a major restructuring occurred. I noticed a lot of issues with the way we were approaching our work. In fact, we all did. I consistently voi

On Monday, I wrote about the discipline of narrowing focus, the power of doing less with intention. But sometimes the only logical way forward is to widen your scope. Some may find this hard to believe, but sometimes the stakeholders are thinking too small. A while back, I was asked to prioritize a credit‑card vendor replacement, “just a contractual obligation.” They were matter‑of‑fact about it: “Just a swap out. Nothing more. Quick and simple.” But my natural curiosity enti

A pattern I’ve noticed in my career is that product leaders rarely get hired until the chaos becomes unmanageable. I’ve also worked alongside plenty of product colleagues who didn’t have a product mindset or skills, just deep technical expertise and the results were the same. Wildly overflowing scope, no focus, money being poured into work with nothing valuable to show for it. This is not rare; this is why KV Product Consulting was created. One of the many moments that stands

Throughout my career, I have been part of several large scale efforts where we were building something, and it wasn’t clear, at least to me, that we didn’t know the problem we needed to solve. We only knew the outcome we wanted. In many instances, stakeholders and leaders were convinced that a new flashy solution would be the trick to increasing profits, reducing losses, saving time, insert any metric. Portals, SaaS tools, AI, a new data structure, insert any flashy technolog