Building a great product is hard. A glimpse into the product challenges of the P9 portfolio

In the last couple of months I spoke to many Product Managers from the P9 portfolio, as well as external ones about their challenges in Product Management. Thanks again for all your valuable input at this point.

A few weeks ago, I organized a roundtable with some of our portfolio companies to discuss various topics around Product Management. The idea is that one person starts the discussion by introducing the topic quickly, talking about the biggest challenges and how they have tackled these challenges and what they have learned along the way. Then, the discussion between the participants opens up and other people share their lessons learned and experiences.

When preparing the roundtable, I asked all of the participants upfront to select their top 3 out of the following 10 topics. The results are quite interesting because there are in particular 2 topics most of the participants wanted to discuss — Product Metrics and Roadmap Design:

Survey Results: Number of responses per topic