The state of product development 2026

This report is for product leaders responsible for how decisions are made inside their teams.

If delivery is getting faster but outcomes are not improving, or if you want to avoid that gap before it appears, the data shows what actually makes the difference. Based on insights from 350+ product professionals, the report explains how product-centric teams adapt their decision-making, discovery, and ways of working as complexity increases.

Use it to benchmark your organization and identify which habits will help, or hurt, as product work continues to accelerate.

Great products are not the result of process alone. They are built on clarity, trust, and shared ownership.

Based on insights from more than 350 product professionals, this report shows why product culture has become one of the strongest predictors of performance and how teams that focus on outcomes outperform those that focus on delivery.