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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. We often hear about this transition from members of the Continuous Discovery Habits community who are new to leadership roles and either write in with questions or step in to share their experiences. The list got pretty long quickly—like 20 issues,” says Trevor.

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Speaking Truth to Power 2.0

The Product Coalition

in organizations that lack strong leadership. In these situations, the impediments need to be addressed, and typically this requires the support of the leadership. Conflict Is Inevitable In my experience, speaking truth to power is required in organizations that lack strong leadership. Framing the Situation?—?Conflict

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RAGE. A simple way for product managers to answer the question “Why does everything take so long?”

The Product Coalition

When I go to leadership meetings to talk about the product, I’m occasionally asked how long things are taking, or what is stopping us shipping X by Y date, or what is preventing us from reaching a key OKR by the end of the year? Comparisons, of course, are always unfair. days a week. you can even use none at all and do a great job.

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The “Agile C-Suite” and Its Role in Growing an Adaptive, Resilient Organization

Agile Velocity

According to Denning, Amazon has been successful, in part, because of Jeff Bezos’ understanding of market position, combined with a focus on customer value. We have certainly begun to see a shift in recent years and one key lagging indicator of that shift is executive leadership embracing Agile as a business imperative.

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Managing Manufactured Products: Growth and Decline

Mind the Product

Here is a basic framework for performing a value analysis exercise: List the key functions of your existing product. The VAVE objective is very simple – you want to maximize value by increasing the function-to-cost ratio of the product. Try to stick with verb-noun statements here.

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Medium, Low, High: Dial Into Your Ideal PM Job Title

The Product Coalition

This will be factored into your job search with the position level you applied for. Your role is still valuable, but you’re not the CPO of a public company with broad management responsibility, overall product direction leadership, P&L, etc. Let’s look at the framework for this from the hiring company point of view.

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You Are Building the WRONG Things in your SaaS product

The Product Coalition

Your plan is your framework for every decision to ensure that you are walking along the right path. This concept is not new to leaders but might be new to the realm product leadership.” Leadership want the company to grow. A good comparison would be a support SLA or section in an employee handbook. It’s as simple as that.