Product Leadership beyond Managing PMs with Product Management Guru, Rich Mironov

In this episode with Rich Mironov, you will learn:

1. What are the main sets of challenges for Product Leaders that are different from managing individual products and how to tackle each
2. How does a Product Leader should go about standardizing processes across multiple Product teams
3. How a Product Leader should go about building trust and cross-functional psychological safety

KEY DISCUSSION POINTS

[1:22] Who is a Product Leader and what does their reporting structure look like?

[02:32] What are the main sets of challenges for PLs that are different from managing individual products?

[07:53] What is the challenge Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team all about?

[15:20] What is the challenge around Driving Outcomes, Strategy, Tools all about?

[19:00] Who is in charge of setting Objectives on OKRs? How to balance between customer/user objectives and business objectives?

[24:08] How does a PL should go about standardizing processes across multiple Product teams?

[26:21] What is the challenge around Growing Cross-Functional Collaboration all about?[32:12] How does a PL should go about building trust and cross-functional psychological safety?

[33:58] What is Working With (Other) C-Level Execs all about?

[37:40] What can a senior Product person do if their seniority isn’t to the same level of other C-Level Execs?(say there is no CPO and only a VP)

ABOUT RICH MIRONOV

Rich is a 35 year veteran of B2B/enterprise software product management. He coaches heads of product, sometimes parachutes into companies as interim Chief Product Officer, and helps folks design their product organizations. Rich has been blogging about product management since 2002, published his “Art of Product Management” in 2008, and founded Product Camp.

LINKS

• Mironov.com

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Tagged as: Managing Up,  Team Leadership,  Stakeholder Management,  Strategic Impact,  Product Vision & Roadmapping.