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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ You don’t have to be a line manager to lead others.

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How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

Roman Pichler

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time.

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How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

Roman Pichler

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time.

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The Difference Between Thought Leadership vs. People Leadership

ProductPlan

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. In itself, leading is a sought-after position that requires specialized knowledge and experience. There are rewards for having the position, both in money and respect. The work is ambiguous.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Agile has been impeded by retention of Waterfall release planning practices and schedule pressure.

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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Desperate to find an alternative to our ineffective process, I stumbled upon Agile and it blew my mind. But in my new Agile team, I was designing fragments that felt incomplete. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio.

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6 Key Challenges of Agile Transformation in a Hybrid Environment and 8 Strategies to Overcome Them

Agile Velocity

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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