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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. However, the policies and procedures increase friction and make it harder to get the Right Things done. It's time to start removing some of those policies and procedures. Yet, the policies and procedures remain.

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Essential Technical Program Manager Skills

The Product HQ

Are you looking for crucial technical program management skills to become a successful technical program manager? Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. Well, you’re in the right place.

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Solving Product Development Challenges With Product Review

Mind the Product

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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Staff Product Manager vs Senior Product Manager – Which Role is Right for You?

The Product Manager Coach Blog

These titles may sound similar, but they encompass different levels of organizational expertise and leadership. In this article, I will review the differences between the Staff Product Manager and the Senior Product Manager roles, helping you gain clarity and make an informed decision about your career path. Which one is right for you?

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Building an Efficient Release Management Process

Split

Without dependable deployment processes, teams face greater technical debt, production issues and risk of downtime, and delays in unlocking business value from code. This helps ensure adherence to change management policies while empowering developers through faster feature rollout.

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Why Product Operations is set to be the Backbone of Product-led Growth

Mind the Product

Many other tech companies organize themselves in this way, including Spotify , Atlassian , and Airbnb. Product ops’ Primary Responsibilities: Engineering, design, product team communication / announcements / reinforcing process, policies, and practices. Technical program management. What Product Managers do.

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Why Do Most Startups Struggle to Scale?

Modus Create

Relentless pursuit of growth can also lead to overlooking other strategic aspects of business such as technical debt. This can jeopardize their growth because no one is immune to disruption in today’s age, least of all technology companies. That’s why DevSecOps has emerged as a popular philosophy among proactive tech companies.