Personal attributes that enable someone to interact to effectively and harmoniously with other people!
Habits, Attitude, Personality traits that help you relate to your colleagues, your friends, family & the world.
Grand Vision
Big Plans
Multiple cross-team workings
Product Management => Leadership
Is that even a skill?
PM must resolve multiple issues? First Step - Anticipate Issues!
PM can be experienced or not, everyone gets blindsided by challenges
PM must always find better ways to do things.
Difficult situations make a PM stronger! (practice)
Communicate, communicate, communicate...
Data, data, data...
Keep competition in perspective - learn from their wins/mistakes
Retrospect the difficult situation
PM must instill confidence in the teams.
PM is responsible for driving the product roadmap
Does it mean they need to take over the tasks if there is a risk of failure
Should they immediately look for alternate solutions themselves to mitigate risks.
Delegate, delegate, delegate...
Motivate, motivate, motivate...
Don't make all the decisions! Assign responsibilities
Mico-manage like crazy. Never!
Support your team & partners in good times and bad times.
Seriously? What is the relationship with PM activities?
PM is responsible for the contagious enthusiasm across all teams
The never-ending cycle of build-measure-learn takes a toll on the product teams.
Positive & enthusiastic attitude is critical to workplace success.
Share, share, share...
Listen, listen, listen...
Logical, repeatable, product development frameworks!
Must have a sounding board
Share, share, share...
Listen, listen, listen...
Logical, repeatable, product development frameworks!
Must have a sounding board
Every day, learn from your successes and what went well and what didn't go as planned. Make yourself two buckets, a bucket of success and a bucket of experience. Good luck!
Harsh Govind, Microsoft Product Leader