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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. Think of the salespeople, marketers, and customer support team members, as well as the UX designers, architects, programmers, and testers you might interact with.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. He has developed a systematic approach to problem-solving that forms the basis of his book, Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. But that’s okay, because once we know where the weak spots are, we can fix them. Siloed Teams : Teams work in isolation rather than collaboratively, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of unified vision or approach.

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5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

Roman Pichler

You know, though, that it is impossible to add the feature to the development effort. The dev team is struggling with the current workload, and moving the date is not an option. What’s more, you suspect that John’s request may be motivated by the desire to meet his sales targets. Don’t Feel Bad about Saying No.

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Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.