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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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How to Leverage Conflict in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Why Conflict Matters Conflict is often seen as something bad that should not occur. 1] This is especially true in product management. In the worst case, you practise design by committee, broker a weak compromise, and agree on the smallest common denominator.

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Coaching and Discovery in Product. What High-Performing Teams Are Doing Differently [TPG Live Recap]

The Product Guy

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. But that’s okay, because once we know where the weak spots are, we can fix them.

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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

He most recently ran Product Management, Marketing, and Partnerships across Square while reporting to the CEO. Over a nine-year tenure, he also held various General Manager roles with full P&L responsibility, including the flagship Point of Sale business. Subscribe now. But there is a reason for it, born of hard-won experience.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

Yet most product managers still rely on long documents, jargon-filled briefs, and clunky slide decks that dont land with the people who matter. Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. How: Whats your unique approach? Whats frustrating them?

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).