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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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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

These numbers will come as the result of all the micro-decisions we make every day, consciously or not–it’s an implicit strategy (which through this exercise has been made explicit). . Do we want to work on multiple product goals at once? It forces us to think about our choices and where we want to spend our time on. Which ones?

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Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. Measures to Build Trust with Stakeholders, Dev Teams, and Other Product People.

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How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

Roman Pichler

It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times. On the positive side, when done correctly, it will not only remove the problems. I can still feel some frustration now when I think about it.

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Your Product Manager Super Power: Not Knowing Everything

Mind the Product

Building up a detailed knowledge of your product is obviously encouraged but so is having an inquisitive mindset. With experience, you’ll learn when is best to ask questions and when is best to let the team delve into the details, but keeping the product goal in mind helps with this.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.  I think of this first as an organizational and company culture question, not first as a Porter -meets-slideware-meets-research exercise