Everything's Coming Up Dilbert: Building Product in the Enterprise - Emily Tate
summary
Argues the enterprise funding model is broken and causes project-led roadmaps that survive contact with reality only 20% of the time, so teams replace feature calendars with outcome-driven prioritization, theme-based roadmaps and learning backlogs. Shows concrete failure modes: two-releases-a-year gating, legacy MapQuest contracts, a gate agent struggling with bad UI and an org-wide release freeze blamed on the mysterious they. Advises eliminating customer proxies and starting change on one product team.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to enterprise product building
- 3:32Why enterprises struggle to innovate
- 5:17Complexity in large organizations
- 9:36Broken funding models in enterprises
- 13:03Changing from within the system
- 18:02Avoiding customer proxies
- 24:41Fighting the mysterious they
- 28:15Driving change in enterprises
- 30:42Call to action for leaders
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