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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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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.

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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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Driving Business Outcomes and Impact?—?Part 2 of Becoming a Product Leader

The Product Coalition

Leading Complex Initiatives As a Product Leader, you will be expected to lead and drive initiatives that span across an organization. Your leadership team, stakeholders, and individuals doing the work all need to trust that your influence will result in better outcomes. It may not go anywhere outside of a document or presentation.

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A Practical Guide for Product Strategy From Almundo: A Case Study:

Mind the Product

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. Product Strategy in an Agile World Marty Cagan.

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Scrum Guide 2020

The Product Coalition

Interestingly, the authors also axed other elements of the 2017 edition of the Scrum Guide that I thought less contested, for example, the magnitude of work allocated to Product Backlog refinement and servant-leadership. It is a cohesive unit of professionals focused on one objective at a time, the Product Goal.”

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Scrum Commitments

The Product Coalition

Interestingly, the authors also axed other elements of the 2017 edition of the Scrum Guide that I thought less contested, for example, the magnitude of work allocated to Product Backlog refinement and servant-leadership. and the newly introduced Product Goal as all of them are linked to one of the three Scrum artifacts as commitments.)

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