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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.[

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The Product Leadership Career Ladder

Mironov Consulting

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want.

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Lead with Context, Not Control

ProductPlan

The art of product leader communication relies on the concept of responsibility without authority. Product managers who follow this concept understand the responsibility to influence others to achieve the organization’s product goals. As product managers, we have the power to task others with responsibilities.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.    Service revenue vs product revenue breakouts?)  OK, What’s A Company Strategy?

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Product vs Project Management?—?Batman & Robin or Marvel & DC?

The Product Coalition

Product vs Project Management?—?Batman Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. Product and Project Management?—?two Batman & Robin or Marvel & DC? two sides of the same coin?

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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. Once you decide you need to recruit a product manager, who should it be? It usually means that the workload is already unbearable.

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. 3] Figure 3 illustrates the team’s ownership of the goals.