Stakeholder Management
Engaging your stakeholders early on in the product process is key. Getting them on board early means that they can be a supporter of the vision that they’ve helped co-create, ensuring that your product gets out the door!
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How to Win Your Colleagues Over and Get Their Buy-in
Let’s assume you have a great idea that requires some of your colleagues to take action to move it forward. You introduce it and they agree that it sounds good. A couple of weeks later, you ask how things are progressing and they haven’t had time to start yet. A few more weeks pass… still Read more »
From the Passenger Seat - An Engineering View of Effective Product Management
An ineffective product manager can leave a pile of waste behind – a waste of time, money, hope and enthusiasm by the time the product gets launched, if it ever gets launched. The only constructive byproduct is a learning experience worth communicating to save other products from succumbing to the same mistakes. From my experience Read more »
How to Gain Alignment From Your Team on the Product Roadmap
When No-one Agrees With Your Roadmap When I arrived at Workbar, a growing co-working space headquartered in Boston, I had to wrap my arms around what the product was, how they did releases, and who decided what was going to be in the next sprint. Turns out that it was a bit of a mess, Read more »
A Guide to Collaborating With and Motivating Your Engineering Team
Product management is a cool job, arguably one of the most sought-after roles in business today. But, if you’ve been at it long enough, you inevitably end up hearing some version of this phrase at one time or another: God only knows when my product is going to be shipped!Frustrated Business Person (or product manager) Read more »
Courtney Wylie - Building Your Business Model When Your Customer is not Your User
What do you do when your customer is not your user ? Courtney Wylie, VP Product and Marketing at MentionMe, talks to ProductTank London about how to deliver value for all parties by building a business model which aligns with the interest of your users. Don’t Keep a Special Swimlane for Client Requests You have Read more »
How to Gain Agency - or Outrun a Bear
When I lived in British Columbia, Canada, I used to go running in the forests behind our house. My housemate (appalled at the idea) insisted that I run with his dog to keep the grizzly bears away. At the end of one run I was chatting with a neighbour, a retired Canadian mountain guide with Read more »
How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow
In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 Janna Bastow, Co-Founder of Mind the Product and Co-Founder and CEO of ProdPad, shares her own stories of dealing with people, and how she handles the toughest part of the job. Read more »