Product-led growth (PLG) is a high-leverage aspect of the SaaS business model and perhaps one of the most significant departures from the legacy software world.

For a product company, a product value stream is a body of work focused on a particular theme performed by the company to deliver value to the customer and/or the company.

This is an unprecedented time for CPOs. The broad array of enabling stacks to manage, develop, sell and operate SaaS products is growing at a rapid pace. In this context, a stack is an enabling layer of purpose-built technology.

With all the talk of prioritization frameworks, product analytics, and the like, one would think by now that product roadmaps could be self-discovered and automatically planned with ML-powered technology.

B2B SaaS Chief Product Officers (CPO) have embraced the “outcome over output” mantra. That is, outcomes are desired results the buyer or company wants to attain. Outputs are actions taken or items delivered that contribute to attaining outcomes.

Recently, I have been spending time with product teams whose “products” are internal systems. I define an internal system to be software that supports some internal business, administrative, or other process (e.g., internal communications, manufacturing, finance, etc.)

In previous posts, I have discussed the Five Product Movements Models (5PMM), a SaaS product management life cycle model. It consists of an organic, iterative, and mutually informing series of five Movements (Strategy, Planning, Development, Marketing, and Operations).