Making Difficult Choices: Sunsetting Products and Addressing Resistance

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively?

In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions.

In the second episode, we start weighing the options for allocating resources to products at various life stages as we answer the question: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being sunset?

In it, you’ll hear perspectives from:

• Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.
• Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody Studios
• Adrian Howard, Coach, Quietstars
• Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer

and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com)

Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries:

1. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
4. ⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠
5. ⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠
6. ⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠
7. ⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠

Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast

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