People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? Answering this question requires you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your business and the competition you face.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. So what happened?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. and coaching. It is not a mere management role.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day. Hence the need to have young and innovative minds who follow the trends of the industry to come up with these strategic thoughts while the senior leaders review and align it with the organization’s business goals.”.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Hard Skills Technical Expertise Why it’s Important : Good PMs have a strong technical background, which allows them to work well will engineering teams. They know how to credibly push back on engineering team’s estimates and determine whether a project is under or over-scoped.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 2, 2021

I still put on my operations cap when I think about how quickly fast fashion giants such as Inditex can mimic fashion trends to have them in-store in weeks to how quickly some fast-food chains such as Chick-fil-a adopted new ordering methods during the pandemic. for senior leadership. for senior leadership.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products. Software PMs are able to manage the scope of the product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Finding trends or effects is more important than missing them, even if it means sometimes mistaking random events for significant ones. The perfect world does not exist, though. There is only the real world.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But when things go wrong, there’s nothing worse for a product manager than losing credibility with their team, executives and customers. These are just some of the many horrors that arise when product management really takes a bad turn. Sometimes there’s no going back. Want to find out more about these ghoulish nightmares?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Andy Wicks shares his take on why poor prioritisation occurs, as well as a lean solution that will ensure you continually deliver the most value to your customers. Netflix Abstracts the Team out of Product Design. How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Characteristics (Superpowers!)

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. The product manager’s role is about the business’s vision for the product, primarily on the market and customer feedback. Although they are both parts of the same team and share many of the same goals, the two roles have different focuses.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

The product team : This is the close-knit team that build the artifacts used to evolve the product (green layer). Ideally, this is a cross-disciplinary team working closely together in an iterative/agile kind of way. Culture and rituals are key here: A safe culture is required for such teams to exist and operate efficiently.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Given that product strategy provides product teams with so much guidance, why does it seem like your product strategy is more reactive, and is that ok? They all took advantage of the new trend.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Through research on thousands of product managers, she pioneered the practical professional development approach that anchors product managers with the five skills most important for their professional success. Product Principles Product Vision Product Pillars Tactics. PRODUCT VISION. Listen here →. Should they be the same?

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sure, this is similar to other C-level tech leadership roles, but COOs, CTOs and Chief Revenue Officers are, I’d argue, a little less nebulous in their scope than ‘Product’. If your team members can’t even articulate the value proposition, how can you expect customers to understand it? Do they want what we’re building?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In 46% of respondents’ companies the leadership team or head of product decide what will be built next. Spreadsheets ( continuing the trend of “Excel is our biggest competitor ”) and Jira ( the product everyone loves to hate ) were overwhelmingly popular, each being used by almost 50% of respondents. Stick to a stronger vision.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Product management intuition is still a great thing to develop, but statistics and analytics will help you hone your product sense and justify your decisions to stakeholders. The right product metrics give us a read on the health of our product, help us identify strengths and weaknesses, track improvement over time, diagnose problems, etc.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

When a clear path and vision is necessary for success, it makes sense that taking the proactive approach would yield the best chances. It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. The Reactive Product Manager. Being reactive gets a lot of flak.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

? ?. It’s hard to find a hotter trend in Silicon Valley than the idea of turning your product into a platform. Turning your product into a platform that developers can build on is a great way to tap into new audiences and expand your market share. So those are developer tools for sure. Those are big amazing companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. I kept meeting with every team in the company to learn more about what my business was good at, even if it didn’t involve direct contact with the products that I was building. When I was at HERE Maps, working with various teams to implement things, they didn’t just “do it.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Combined with what we learned from writing Product Leadership the patterns are becoming increasingly obvious: Product teams around the world are all encountering the same handful of problems. Request: Obviously every company or product team will have context-specific factors that make their situation a little different.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This was completely unforeseen by the design team. It looks at how we can nudge away from a bad equilibrium in game-theoretic scenarios such as news filtering and dating apps. Tunnel vision of success metrics. Many product teams follow in their footsteps. It’s very easy to get tunnel vision on success metrics.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Hard Skills Technical Expertise Why it’s Important : Good PMs have a strong technical background, which allows them to work well will engineering teams. They know how to credibly push back on engineering team’s estimates and determine whether a project is under or over-scoped.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Enhanced employee motivation – Pursuing a transformative strategic vision can drive greater employee engagement, creativity, and morale. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

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