ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. From that success, I was then officially asked to move into the product role by the product leadership, and I have not looked back since then. The post My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership appeared first on.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the three-day outage, they learned: Because the deployment team felt pressure to deploy, they didn't read the documentation carefully enough. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. Finally, one large change broke the production server. They added the changes in reverse order.

Leadership 130

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

However, in organizations that work as organisms, leadership shows direction and enables action. A model described in Peter Coning’s book, The Agile Leadership Toolkit , leans heavily on the power of team collaboration. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Empower your team with servant leadership.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process. That is the question. A recent project, a complete re-do of one of our flagship products was needed.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Always callout non-goals, in addition to the goals for a leadership review you are leading Earlier on in my PM career, while I would call out the explicit goals and feedback I needed from leadership reviews, I never took the time to communicate what we would not discuss. Always use numbered lists in documents or slides Sounds simple?

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Similarly, poor app documentation and code practices made collaboration difficult. When an architect with in-depth knowledge of the legacy architecture left the team after six months, it led to a painful process of understanding legacy applications without good documentation and coding practices. Create a safe space to share progress.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

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280 Group

APRIL 18, 2023

” Jennifer shares her product management wisdom, including being authentic, decisive, and how PM leaders should focus on having a servant-leadership attitude. Apparently, I wrote really insightful bug details regarding where I thought the error occurred, which led the IT department to ask me to help them with documenting features.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public is a product leadership firm that helps companies make informed decisions and deliver superior quality products that appeal to customers and achieve business goals.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. We work with you as partners by sharing product leadership best practices. I'm not very good at Product Management.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 31, 2023

He joined Amazon in 1998—four years after its founding—and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team. Amazon’s first leadership principle is customer obsession, and we realized we weren’t as customer-obsessed as we needed to be. 8:55] Do you involve the customer in writing the PRFAQ document?

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This can create tension between product teams and your company leadership or stakeholders —some argue that they can’t coordinate work with the rest of the company without these dates. The reason I say this is because teams put a lot of time and energy into a document that is immediately out of date and often ignored.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

Less than 1% have documented competencies with scorecards for rating performance. Many competencies we care about weren’t documented. Problem: Many competencies we care about aren’t documented. Solution: We added many new competencies, including leadership, commercial thinking, research, prototyping, and more.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Nowadays, I don’t hear many stories about servant leadership in the media. I could go on about the very different narratives of leadership that are told nowadays—carrying themes like narcissism, greed, materialism, workaholism, sociopathy, mental illness, and others—but those have been well documented elsewhere.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" There's work to be done. -- 2016: "I want a product manager who can be great at writing specification documents. There will be more CPOs and leadership positions in product, but not enough people to fill them.

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280 Group

APRIL 12, 2021

Product Marketing Managers work to deliver a variety of written documentation to support sales and marketing, such as market strategy documents and launch plans, datasheets, solution briefs, presentations, web copy, and more.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. More Articles by Roman Product Leadership in Scrum Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters Product Manager vs. Product Owner.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

This means setting measurable goals and behaviors that align with your leadership principles and organizational values. Document improvement: Approximately 30% of users utilize ChatPRD to enhance existing specs, PRDs, strategy docs, or roadmaps, indicating its effectiveness in refining and iterating on initial project documentation.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 23, 2022

Many of us think that detailed documentation in JIRA or Confluence, or a 10 page product requirements document is what is required to create shared understanding, but it isn’t. Documentation is never a proper stand-in for conversation. Documentation is never a proper stand-in for conversation. You need more time.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Worked with support leadership to develop a weekly support call between product managers + support team leaders to triage support tickets. Built an internal team wiki and created guidelines in coordination with product leadership for consistency and easy access. How Product Ops Resolved the Problem.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Moreover, have you ever considered that informal agreements, those made in the hallway or over coffee, might be more impactful than formal roles written in a document? It’s not just a document; it’s a statement of intentions, a guide on how operations should be executed. If these questions intrigue you, great! And guess what?

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280 Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Be sure to consider both the foundational hard skills like market-research and the interpersonal soft skills like influence and leadership. Most PMs also need to be able to influence leadership, stakeholders, and teams without authority —so include this in your job description. 4: Speed Up Candidate Sourcing.

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280 Group

JULY 30, 2019

Mentoring others and demonstrating thought leadership through writing and speaking are great ways to not only strengthen these skills, but also advance your career. This type of mentoring is great to practice your product management skills– whether it’s helping to write a requirements document or attending a retrospective.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2023

It is a strategic document.” — Bruce McCarthy In today’s rapidly changing digital world, developing a product is more than just hard work. And while the first meeting didn’t go well, I returned with the strategic document they requested a week later. It’s a strategic document communicating the ‘why’ behind your product.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You want to make sure you have strong documentation practices so that you can pull out codes, themes, and insights, and be able to connect them to sources. I would start by asking your leadership team what they are optimizing for and why, and see if you can get a better understanding of possible un-validated assumptions.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 5, 2020

Product Managers must be able to communicate to a variety of people across different departments – stakeholders, developers, designers, marketing, leadership, etc. – and, although we wish it were true, one message or document doesn’t work for all groups.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The End Game of Product Strategy A product strategy synthesizes the choices made and packages them into a document. A document with one primary goal?—?creating Once documented, I use a simple scoring mechanism to determine coherence: A yes with a solid how gets a one.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beyond project leadership, you must champion the design’s significance, shape a clear vision aligned with business goals, and uplift the team morale. A well-crafted career progression framework can become an essential tool to overcome a significant number of challenges of design leadership. An example of work in progress framework.

Framework 85

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Not necessarily the raw document where you wrote your thoughts, but once you found the right words and logical explanations sharing them with the team becomes much easier.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

When all the ideas come from the management/leadership and not from the team building and managing the project. For a lot of organizations, the whole idea of the product comes from the leadership and not from every team member. When tasks are not well defined and documented. Are you ready? This is a fragile system.

Agile 129

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280 Group

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Whether you are brand new to team leadership or have been leading a Product Management team for years, a product leader’s role is always tough. In your documentation : be sure there are explicit sections for customer research that must be filled out before a business case or roadmap review can be completed [Tempo/How We Make Decisions].

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280 Group

JANUARY 15, 2020

Typically responsible for providing product vision and roadmaps, this role leads end-to-end product development, from Product requirement documents to product launches. Meaning, these skill sets are crucial to developing into the highest levels of product management leadership. Source: Glassdoor, January 2020.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. This might include business-side materials like your product roadmap, business plans, and competitor analysis, as well as technical materials like requirements documentation, screen comps, and project/process systems like Jira and Confluence.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 14, 2020

That sense of safety must come from the top – directly from your leadership team. Ecommerce fulfillment platform Shipbob , also keep their entire company well informed of any customer experience updates with a live Q&A document. Here are their tips: Provide a safe space. Remember, a team takes its tone from its leader.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Is the role of product operations about building and documenting processes—guided by the needs and requirements of product? Or is it about refining, documenting, and shepherding the ongoing use of established processes? Documenting existing processes and systems within the product team for broader circulation. Data is important.

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