Talk: How to train your HiPPO
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Özlem Yüce
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How to train your HiPPO
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Have you noticed the impact when someone more senior in your organisation shares their opinion? Meet the HiPPO: the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion. Sometimes it’s subtle and unintended. Other times it’s more direct and intentional. Either way, the HiPPO is a dangerous animal in Product Management.
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When we allow the HiPPO to drive decision-making we hide critical assumptions. Value and urgency is buried. Our MVPs become massive. Roadmap dates become commitments. Options get prematurely closed down. Indeed, the HiPPO is one of the most dangerous animals to let stomp around in Product Management. Whilst the HiPPO likes to be in charge, none of us want to be responsible for developing products that nobody wants. How can we help the HiPPO to help themselves? Come and hear more about why HiPPO driven decision-making is so dangerous and learn some simple techniques you can use to train your HiPPO. Learning Outcomes: *Understand why the HiPPO is so dangerous in product development *Five tools to help you with training your HiPPO
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