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Product Council

TTool · Product Council

By , Editor · · What’s Next

Strategic decisions happen in corridors. The monthly meeting ratifies what's already settled. Teams don't know where investment choices get made.

A Product Council is a governance forum for making product investment decisions visible and accountable. You bring together appropriate leadership representation, define clear decision rights, and create a regular cadence for strategic portfolio choices — without micromanaging individual product decisions.

A four-step horizontal flow numbered 01 to 04, labelled MEMBERSHIP, CADENCE, ESCALATE, and TIGHTEN, each with descriptive text (product/engineering/design plus stakeholders; fortnightly; bring the moved deadline back; gate or accept the cost). A banner reads "Make the cost of change visible to who approves it."
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