Die Product Leader Bibliothek

The 2026 CPO Insights Report predicts the end of the product manager role by 2030. ProductPlan's State of Product Management Report shows that over 60 percent of prioritization frameworks are already overridden by leadership escalations. Read together, they describe one mechanism — and it is not about AI eating a job.

Most product organizations don't think they have a conflict problem. The expensive ones are the quiet disagreements.

Business, product, and development sit in the same meetings, use the same tools, and still work past each other. The result looks like a delivery problem, but it is usually an unresolved conflict. Why cold conflicts are so expensive, and what it takes to make them workable again.

Double-digit million-euro investment on the line. Eighteen months later, the question had changed.

Why real organizational development requires co-creation, vertical leadership growth, and the willingness to change — not just the wish for change.