Growth doesn’t happen by accident. It takes careful planning, the right opportunities, and the right goals. Growth also requires effective systems for setting those goals and tracking progress. After all, what use is a goal if you don’t know when or if you reached it?
One reason product management is such a difficult profession is that you are responsible for the success of your products, but you don’t have authority over most of the people whose help you need to bring about that success. So it all comes down to your persuasion skills. To illustrate some of the challenges Product Managers face in persuading coworkers and decision-makers, try this hypothetical.
Undoubtedly, there is exponential growth in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry. This prolific growth has been accelerated by the global pandemic in the last two years. According to a Gartner report, the SaaS industry has grown its revenue from $120.69 billion to $171.92 billion in just two years. This translates to a 40% growth recorded between 2020 and 2022.
Having attendance insights to review at the end of the day is useful for compliance, allocating human resources wisely, and keeping your team accountable — no matter where or when they work. But knowing when people are actively working or not working can also be critical for moment-to-moment management of your operations and service delivery.
Some people call them the “Sunday Scaries.” It’s that feeling in your stomach when you realize it’s Sunday night, House of the Dragon is over, and now you have to face the prospect of starting a new work week. You try to shake it off, realizing that wallowing in the same emotions every Sunday you used to feel on the last day of summer vacation is not only pointless but counterproductive. Monday, like Winter, is coming.
As humans, we can learn from everything. Lessons about the human experience are everywhere if you’re open to them. If you’re a lover of nature like me, you know that it has a lot to teach us. In oceans worldwide, pods of humpback whales form veritable choirs, singing a unison song at 188 decibels. That’s louder than the roar of a jet plane flying only 100 feet away. But we humans, limited by our audio perception and utter lack of the whale’s use of language—pay no mind.
