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Mind the Product
MAY 30, 2022
Ronke Majekodunmi, currently Senior Product Manager for Large Enterprise at PayPal, has a lot of sound advice about how to lead cross-functional teams fearlessly as a product manager. Read more » The post Lessons in fearless leadership appeared first on Mind the Product.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 4, 2021
On Monday 27 September, product leaders gathered at the MTP Engage Leadership Forum in Hamburg for the first face-to-face event after a tiringly long break forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more » The post 5 lessons in product leadership appeared first on Mind the Product.
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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
In the end, each contributor and manager has his goals and measurements driven by the management. Leadership. inspiration product-management leadership cultureLately, I joined the executive excellence program by Hoffman-Koffman( I met the fantastic Fred Kofman ).
280 Group
APRIL 29, 2020
This month, we presented a webinar from our Product Management Leadership series – No Bragging Required: How Women in PM Can Get the Recognition They Deserve. How are behavioral / leadership test assessed differently for women and men? Have a conversation with your manager.
Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.
As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. In fact, the impact of software architecture parallels the impact of organizational structure. We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, he’ll speak to organizing for effectiveness, productivity and joy.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 14, 2021
What really is the difference between managing and leading your product. Don’t product managers need to be able to both manage and lead? Read more » The post How to lead your product – Part 1: Leadership and management appeared first on Mind the Product.
ProductPlan
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. A compelling thought leader most likely started as a people leader, such as a manager or a director. The Start of Thought Leadership.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 25, 2021
This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. they’re in a Product leadership role.
The Product Coalition
JULY 5, 2022
Skip level meetings are one-on-one meetings where you meet your manager’s manager. product-management leadership skip-levelThese kinds of meetings are important because… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Mind the Product
JANUARY 8, 2021
In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Marty Cagan, author of ”Inspired” and “Empowered”, explains the important role of product leadership in any great product company–and why it’s so hard to get right.
Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC
Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams? We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The post The Challenge of Leadership: Asking for Help appeared first on Mind the Product. Business Strategy Product Leadership good product leadership Interview product consultant product leader product leadership product management interview
Roman Pichler
MAY 8, 2018
Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. The post Product Leadership in Scrum appeared first on Roman Pichler.
Roman Pichler
MARCH 11, 2020
Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. To be a successful leader and contributor, carefully manage your time and adopt a sustainable pace.
Roman Pichler
MARCH 11, 2020
Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. To be a successful leader and contributor, carefully manage your time and adopt a sustainable pace.
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Mind the Product
APRIL 24, 2022
As our Product Leadership Focus Week draws to a close, we figured it would be a good idea to end on a high and look back on this inspirational first-time talk from Oluwatobi Otokiti for this Sunday Rewind episode. Product Leadership Leadership Product leadership
The Product Coalition
JUNE 24, 2022
The success of any product strategy depends on the attributes and dedication of a quality product manager. product-management data-science leadership nlp product-developmentLet’s explore 40 attributes… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
ProductCraft
MAY 14, 2019
Over the past few years, I’ve witnessed and been part of the evolution of the product manager role and product management as a discipline. Yesterday, product management was mostly unknown unless you were already in it. Read more » The post Servant Leadership for Product Managers appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo. Perspectives Education Leadership PM Role
Feedback Loop
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Product Management cross cultural leadershipDilip Ramachandran is the founder/CEO and chief product therapist of Nimi and author of Gangsta Vision.
Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry
A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. In other words, you need to speak your executive suite’s language. In this webinar, Brett Truka, CEO of Devetry, shares his experiences and advice on how to successfully sell your roadmap to your leadership team.
Johanna Rothman
JULY 20, 2021
However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. Management—not the teams—often chose a Scrum board with three columns. Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity?
Modus Create
MARCH 17, 2022
Executives across industries are reimagining leadership principles that thrive in an agile business environment — principles that don’t treat change as an anomaly but a culture. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership. Agile Our Perspective Leadership
ProductPlan
JULY 30, 2021
Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . Not Every Product Manager Should Be (or Wants to Be) a People Manager.
ProductPlan
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
They hold qualified women back from climbing career ladders and reaching a senior product leadership position. Product management has long been a field where women have thrived and significantly impacted their companies and industries.
A comprehensive global report on Product Management with over 70 graphs based on a survey of over 2000 product professionals. Insights from topics: Leadership and Culture| People|Organization|Salaries |Process and Product
Product Management University
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. Product Management
Product Management University
JANUARY 18, 2022
The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors.
Mind the Product
JULY 10, 2020
An inspirational first-time talk from Tobi Otokiti asking us as product managers to consider ourselves as the product. See yourself as a product leader, not just a manager, and genuinely care for your team.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 9, 2020
leadership startup management business productA collection of models to help your product organization Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker & Author of The Lazy Project Manager
Social Collaborative Management aims at delivering, at the enterprise level, a common goal for the business while harnessing the performance advantages of a collaborative community. This is a vital paradigm shift that many organisations are trying to understand right now - balancing traditional work and centralised leadership against the value of decentralised teams and trust. But the principles of harnessing collective power, collaboration, and community build an underlying ‘constant change’ capability that is critical in today’s new work environment.
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Whether you are an executive manager of a large corporation or the IT guy who has no subordinates, you need to step into … Continue reading → Leadership collaboration Communication enthusiasmGuest post by Gabe Nelson Great leaders inspire.
Feedback Loop
JANUARY 31, 2022
Laura Flessner is the founder and CEO of Mindtap
Johanna Rothman
MAY 24, 2021
Do you or your managers want people to be happy at work? For example, if your manager has not maintained their one-on-ones with you? You might feel stress, a lack of social relationships, worry that your job satisfaction doesn't match what your manager thinks.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. to portfolio manage, set strategic intent, make big bets, etc?—?although
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation? In this webinar, Peter Taylor will walk through the change process step by step, and look at a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. It will be a guide towards a decentralized and management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.
NextBigWhat
MARCH 13, 2021
I learned about leadership & scaling from Sheryl Sandberg. My direct manager for 10+ yrs, we spent countless hours together in weekly 1x1s (she attended religiously), meetings, offsites, dinners, travel, etc. Execs often fall into the trap of only managing rather than doing.
280 Group
JULY 26, 2016
The Product Leadership Challenge Product Managers have a most distinct leadership challenge: standing at the hub of a multitude of departments and bringing together people with disparate goals and skills, you have all the responsibility for creating a successful whole product yet you have little formal authority to direct the actions of others. Therefore, successful product management requires highly effective leadership.
Johanna Rothman
JULY 14, 2021
Many managers feel the need to get more and more done. Or the managers might feel the need for more revenue. Some managers deal with this problem by slicing and dicing feature sets into smaller chunks of work. How Managers Make Project Portfolio Decisions.
Roman Pichler
AUGUST 16, 2022
Why is Empathy Important in Product Management? First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership. You can find more guidance on how to listen effectively in my article Listening Practices for Product People and in my book How to Lead in Product Management.
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As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.
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