Talk: Product management isn’t just about product anymore!
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Neha Datt
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Product management isn’t just about product anymore!
Short synopsis:
Building products is hard! This is a call to arms, to upgrade the modern product manager’s (PM) toolkit. As leader, coach and colleague, a modern PM’s role increasingly needs to focus less on building products, and more on their team, environment and outcomes. We’ll explore case studies and actionable tips to add to our toolkit. Specifically: how to facilitate “safe” failure, improve sustainability by paying product/business “debts”, and redefine leadership for flatter, autonomous teams.
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Building products is hard. We’ve seen organisations shift their focus, from projects to products to services, and then to experiences. At the same time, our towering organisational hierarchies are being toppled to form flatter, autonomous, empowered teams that are meant to be intrinsically motivated. When you add in the confusion around failure being “good”, you end up with a melting pot of uncertainty, lack of clarity and increasing anxiety in our teams. In this new age, a product manager’s responsibility is no longer to “just build products” but to inspire colleagues on their journey through this unfamiliar terrain. This talk is a call to arms to upgrade the modern product manager’s toolkit. Case studies, examples and tips will be shared, heavily drawing upon * service design, * modern agile (modernagile.org/ as advocated by Josh Kerievsky), * lean as a practise and strategy (as advocated by Michael Balle and Orest Fiume), * skilled facilitation and double loop learning (Richard Schwarz and Chris Argyris). As a leader, coach and colleague, a modern product manager’s role increasingly needs to focus on: 1. Co-creating safe spaces for inevitable failure (sometimes we have to fail, to learn) 2. Closing feedback loops across the organisation to prevent issues happening again and again 3. Co-designing a sustainable organisation, where product, technical and business “debt” are recognised as valid concepts, and “paid” off 4. Co-creating psychological safety in teams 5.Redefining what leadership looks like in flat, autonomous teams By extending our toolkits, we can support our organisation’s focus on solving problems our users actually care about, while creating a work environment our colleagues can thrive in.
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