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Most product teams don’t set out to create a tangled process. It just happens over time — a new template for each initiative, a new checklist for each crisis, a new document “just to make sure.” Before long, product managers are juggling duplicative tools, outdated documents, and rituals that no one remembers why they exist. The  Quartz Planning Canvas  was designed to help teams take a deep breath, step back, and bring clarity to their product process — from  DEFINE  to  DELIVER . Quartz...

Every product manager hears it: “You own the product.” It sounds empowering, right? Until you realize you don’t own the roadmap, the budget, the headcount, or even the decisions. You “own” the outcome—but not the levers that produce it.

If you’ve ever hosted a customer session at a user conference, you know the dreaded “let’s make a feature wish list” breakout. It starts as a brainstorming exercise but quickly devolves into a complaint session, everyone piling it on with “the airing of grievances.”