What Product-Led Companies Look Like

I was on a panel the other week where we talked about ‘Cultivating a Product-Centric Culture’.

One of the questions was about what a Product-centric or product-led culture is and looks like?

This got me thinking a bit about trying to codify it — beyond the “it’s about being customer-centric…” and other generic statements.

And perhaps the best place to start is to talk about what it is not.

What Product-centric companies are not…

My friends and fellow panellists were quick to talk about what it is not, and I think it’s probably easiest to start here too.

It’s not:

• Product Management-led
• Product Managers are the boss
• Where product makes all the calls
• Something that only engineering and product do
• Doing 12-week long discovery
• Do only what our customers want us to do

What Product-centric companies share

Thinking about codifying this further, I thought about some of the common attributes — common norms — that I’ve…