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Product Rescue: Turning Stalled or Underperforming Products into New Opportunities
Many product teams inherit or slowly drift into products that feel stuck. They're plagued by unclear strategy, misaligned backlogs, disengaged stakeholders, frustrated users, and missed business goals. Despite talented teams and good intentions, momentum fades and opportunity is lost.
This session explores a practical approach to “product rescue”: diagnosing what went wrong and guiding struggling products back to clarity, relevance, and impact.
Drawing on real-world consulting and leadership experience, Jason will share techniques for assessing a troubled product, reconnecting teams to customer and business value, ruthlessly simplifying priorities, and rebuilding shared confidence.
The result: a renewed focus on shipping the right product while navigating your enterprise's real-world constraints.
Rather than focusing on heroics or one-size-fits-all frameworks, this talk emphasizes thoughtful, human-centered leadership, pragmatic action, and disciplined product thinking. Attendees will leave with concrete tools and mental models they can apply when faced with messy, underperforming, or overlooked product opportunities in their own organizations.
Jason Scherschligt
Head of Product
Solution Design Group
Jason Scherschligt leads the product consulting practice at Solution Design Group (SDG). Jason has over 25 years of experience in product management and user experience leadership. Jason frequently speaks, writes, and blogs about the product mindset, product strategy, and user-centered product management. He is editor of SDG's product-themed newsletter, The Pollinator. In 2020, Jason was the co-author and editor of The North Star Playbook, an e-book published by Amplitude, with lead author John Cutler.