Being a product manager in an enterprise context is different. Your team runs sprint retros religiously. But after a major launch, nobody schedules the cross-functional debrief—the one where marketing tells you they needed assets 2 weeks earlier, and ops reveals they trained staff on outdated specs.

These aren't complaints. They're the specific adjustments that eliminate repeated friction. Skip the debrief and you'll repeat the same coordination failures. Run it within 2 weeks while memory is fresh, and you're compounding operational knowledge.

The best enterprise PMs I know treat post-launch stakeholder debriefs as non-negotiable. One hour of listening saves weeks of friction next time.