Heavyweight Product Management Paradox
An apparent paradox in that heavyweight product management appears to be inconsistent with a high level of autonomy or agency. The resolution of this paradox is true collaboration.
True collaboration means a high level of Collaborative Literacy. A high level of collaborative literacy means a level of shared understanding that makes heavyweight product management easy. The HPM manager takes the form of an educator who teaches collaborative literacy. Once shared understanding of problem statements and methods is cultivated and attained, then the process of highly-coordinated, focused development can effectively run by itself. Each person is autonomous yet coordinated, full of agency yet stigmergic. This is an emergent phenomenon.
This way, we have succeeded in herding cats.
