“I’m tired of being an order-taker.“
When every roadmap comes from someone else’s slide deck, product becomes a feature factory. Morale dips, creativity shrinks, and customers slip away.
“We’re drowning in tasks, but nothing moves forward.”
Busyness ≠ business. Endless backlog shuffles hide the metric that matters: retention..
“Leadership doesn’t speak our language..”
They talk runway and margins; you talk story points. Until product’s story includes ROI, you’ll keep presenting, they’ll keep nodding, and nothing will fund.