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Melissa Perri

Through teaching, consulting, interim CPO work, and Product Institute, she has worked with thousands of product managers and hundreds of companies.

3 episodes · 5 sourced appearances

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Leadership6 steps

Baseline, Train, Practice, Level-Set

Turn hundreds of legacy product owners into real PMs by letting people self-select out

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Build Your Own PM Toolbox (Learning Without Burnout)

Learn from execution, self-retrospect, deep-dive one skill gap at a time, and keep only what works for you.

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Leadership3 steps

Hire-Experienced vs. Train-Up Decision Matrix

Decide whether to hire an experienced product ops person or train one, based on time and coaching capacity

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Leadership4 steps

Hiring Profiles by Product Ops Pillar

Match each product ops pillar to a distinct candidate background and skillset

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Leadership3 steps

Keep vs. Offload: The PM Decision-Rights Boundary

A clear line for what a PM keeps versus hands to product ops — decision rights never move

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Leadership5 steps

One Product Ladder (Kill the PO/PM Split)

Collapse product owner and product manager into a single APM → PM → Senior PM ladder

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Strategy3 steps

Product-Lens Metrics: Monitoring Product Health vs. Business Health

Segment company metrics through a product lens so leaders can actually monitor their strategy

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Strategy4 steps

Setting Strategy From Data, Then Committing to a Choice

Gather internal data, customer research and company goals, make the best informed bet, then reevaluate and pivot.

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Mindset6 steps

The Agile Industrial Complex Test

Before you adopt a methodology, ask how the people selling it make their money

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Strategy4 steps

The Ask-Every-Team Test (Diagnosing a Missing Strategy)

Interview teams and leaders to reveal whether a real, aligned strategy exists — or just lives unspoken in people's heads.

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Leadership5 steps

The 'Can You See What Good Looks Like?' Staffing Test

If nobody in your org has done it before, no amount of training will produce it

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Strategy6 steps

The Four-Pillar Product Operating Model

Build a product operating model on strategy, org design, product ops and incentives — not a dev framework

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The Product Owner Escape Ladder

Five moves to climb out of the order-taker trap without quitting first

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Strategy4 steps

The Strategy Tree (Deploying Strategy Through the Missing Middle)

Connect team-level work to business outcomes through three linked layers so no one asks why they're building something.

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Leadership3 steps

The Three Pillars of Product Operations

Structure a product ops function around data insights, customer insights, and process to free PMs for strategic work

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Productivity3 steps

The Three Pillars of Product Operations

Scale product management with internal data & insights, customer research at scale, and standardized strategy cadences.

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Communication5 steps

The Value-Framed Product Résumé

Rewrite every bullet from process to problem, decision, and metric moved

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Leadership4 steps

When to Hire a Chief Product Officer

Use portfolio complexity, revenue scale, PM headcount and trigger events — not a title chart — to know it's CPO time.

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Strategy4 steps

Which Product Ops Pillar to Start With

Choose your first product ops investment by company stage and where your biggest fire is

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Strategy3 steps

Writing a Compelling Product Vision

A vision people can picture, that's lofty but not yet achieved, and that says what you won't do.

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