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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. Through conversation, talent reviews, and direct experience leading large organizations, I’ve developed a few key principles to help new skip leads better understand and perform their role. Subscribe now.

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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

John mentions the upcoming product release and says, “You really must add the enhanced reporting feature. 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. Don’t Feel Bad about Saying No.

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Treat Your Product Team Like a Product

The Product Guy

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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UX and Design Tips for Better Dashboards: Product Manager Laura Klein Explains How to Improve Your Analytics

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

That's why Laura Klein, product manager and UX designer, has a set of tips to help application teams improve their embedded dashboards and reports. You'll learn: How to develop products that boost your business's bottom line while dramatically improving customer experience. No one makes poorly designed products on purpose.

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

Productside

90% of executives say they prefer visual storytelling over dense reports. When done well, storyboarding helps PMs communicate clearly, align teams faster, and influence decisionswithout needing formal authority. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. How: Whats your unique approach?

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Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. Listen to this article: [link]. Goal-oriented (a.k.a. Outcome-based). Actionable.

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