{"id":21828,"date":"2025-07-24T22:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/?p=21828"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:02:03","slug":"why-startup-and-silicon-valley-advice-is-failing-enteprise-product-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/blog\/our-thinking\/why-startup-and-silicon-valley-advice-is-failing-enteprise-product-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Startup and Silicon Valley advice is failing enterprise product managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens when you try to run enterprise product teams using the same methods as Silicon Valley tech companies? You\u2019ll often end up with frustrated product managers, conflicts between stakeholders and stalled product transformation initiatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Equal Experts, we help companies shift from traditional project-centric models to modern product-led operating models. But in large enterprises, where software underpins the digital business model but isn&#8217;t the primary product sold to customers, this shift is particularly difficult. Unfortunately, this is often where we see product managers left feeling disempowered and disillusioned by their role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A common frustration for enterprise product managers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many enterprise product managers read articles and attend conferences that celebrate the successes of product leaders within digital-first tech organisations and Silicon Valley heavyweights. They\u2019re inspired by the tales of product managers who own the future vision, shape commercial strategy and drive outcomes with autonomy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But back at their desks, they often face a very different reality. Their commercial colleagues (\u201cthe business\u201d) still hold the reins of autonomy and influence, so they often feel cut out of strategic conversations. This mismatch between aspiration and reality can cause imposter syndrome, frustration, or even open conflict with stakeholders over boundaries and accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a product director at a US airline rebooting their product management function asked me what my key advice might be. I half-jokingly replied: \u201cDon\u2019t let your teams read any Silicon Valley product books!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Equal Experts, we believe <\/span><b>you need to think differently about product models if you\u2019re at an enterprise organisation. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You must acknowledge the realities of enterprise environments, rather than chasing methods designed by tech-centric, digital-first companies. Instead, help your teams build their product influence and autonomy within the constraints of an enterprise setting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why most product thought leadership misses the mark for enterprise organisations.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most product management thought leadership today is based on what works for building commercial products rather than building digital enterprise products. One reason is that product management practices have been used in commercial software companies for so much longer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software product management originated in the 1980s and 1990s at companies building software products competing against rival products for market share. First used to create boxed software, it continued to be vital to the success of the internet-powered software companies we know today (think: digital-first startups, scaleups, or SaaS vendors).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, traditional enterprises were largely offline and non-digital and so had no incentive to adopt software product management practices. With no revenue coming directly from selling software, it made sense to maintain their IT-operating model of using portfolio and programme managers to ensure roadmaps and quarterly plans aligned with business strategy and objectives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t until the 2000s and 2010s, with the introduction of agile methodologies and digital transformation, that enterprises adopted modern product management principles, using them to create web and app user journeys, ecommerce sales funnels, customer admin portals, backend capabilities and platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But by then, commercial software had a 20 to 30-year head start in product thought leadership and has dominated the conversation and the content landscape ever since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-timeline-1200x435.png\" alt=\"Product in an enterprise timeline\" width=\"900\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-timeline-1200x435.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-timeline-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-timeline-768x279.png 768w, https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-timeline.png 1535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why commercial software product guidance doesn\u2019t fully apply to enterprise products<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commercial software advice isn\u2019t completely irrelevant for enterprise products, but it&#8217;s often not completely helpful if applied without understanding the differing context within enterprise product teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For commercial software organisations, their business is selling software applications and subscriptions. It grants product managers accountability for commercial strategy, profit and loss, and business outcomes \u2013 placing them near the political centre of the organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprises are different; they build software products to enable their digital business models, not as their core business, which means commercial strategy and political power are not software-centric. Commercial stakeholders \u2013 not product managers \u2013 are accountable for P&amp;L and impacting business outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means we see a different flavour of product management emerge in enterprises. One where product managers are expected to align software delivery to the business strategy, not define the strategy themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-diagram1-1200x454.png\" alt=\"Product in an enterprise diagram1\" width=\"900\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-diagram1-1200x454.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-diagram1-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-diagram1-768x291.png 768w, https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Prod-in-an-enterprise-diagram1.png 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, there are still huge overlaps between commercial and enterprise product roles, given they are, after all, the same discipline! But the differences are significant and critical enough that guidance for the former is not always applicable to the latter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When commercial product guidance is applied without adaptation, enterprise product managers can hit organisational brick walls, become disillusioned and wonder if they are \u201creal product managers\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving product forward in enterprises<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recognising these differences is the first step to tackling the issue in enterprise organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/blog\/product\/how-product-managers-can-increase-their-influence-and-empowerment-in-enterprises\/\">part two<\/a> of this series, we will explore the key steps product managers can take to increase their influence within enterprise organisations in a way that works with the system, not against it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Equal Experts, we help teams shift their product operating models through practical advice, hands-on support, product maturity assessments and more. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/contact-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact our team to find out more about our product service.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you try to run enterprise product teams using the same methods as Silicon Valley tech companies? You\u2019ll often end up with frustrated product managers, conflicts between stakeholders and stalled product transformation initiatives.\u00a0 At Equal Experts, we help companies shift from traditional project-centric models to modern product-led operating models. 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