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5. Angel Navedo
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10. Opinions on Remote
Product Management

11. Marty Cagan on performance
Marty Cagan and Matt LeMay on communication challenges
Remote evangelists
Deep work
Opinions on Remote Product Management

12. “All other things being equal, a co-
located team is going to
substantially outperform a dispersed
team.”
-Marty Cagan, Inspired
Founder, Silicon Valley Product Group;
Author of “Inspired: How to Create Products
Customers Love”

13. “When the developers are not
sitting right next to you, then
all of the normal challenges of
communication and execution
are magnified.”
-Marty Cagan, SVPG blog

14. “...challenges [of
communication] are greatly
compounded when your
team is distributed across
offices, cities, and/or time
zones.”
- Matt LeMay, Product
Management in Practice

15. “Offices have become
interruption factories…
Ask yourself: Where do you
go when you really have to
get work done?
Your answer won't be ‘the
office in the afternoon.’”

16. “Deep Work:
Professional activities performed in
a state of distraction-free
concentration that push your
cognitive capabilities to their limit.”
“The few who cultivate this
skill...will thrive.”

17. Advantages

18. Organizational advantage: cost effective
Organizational advantage: talent and flexibility
Organizational advantage: productivity/no commute
Personal advantage: productivity/no commute
Personal advantage: life moments
Personal advantage: flexibility
Advantages of Remote Work

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24. Challenges
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25. Building relationships
Informal conversation
Decision-making delays
Multitasking
Distractions
Imbalance
Disadvantages of Remote Product Management

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32. Effective Remote Product
Management
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33. Building relationships
Mindset: treat your developers like gold
Tools and technologies
Communication
Managing distractions/motivation
Managing distractions: my set up
Other tips
Effective Remote Product Management

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36. “You have to assume
engineers are the most
precious resource around
and very carefully
prioritize and plan so you
use them to the most
advantage.
Don't waste their time.”
Molly Baab
Chief Product Officer, business.com

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42. “…the number one counter
to distractions is
interesting, fulfilling work.”

43. Reason #1: You are putting something off because you are afraid you will screw it up.
Solution: Adopt a “prevention focus.”
Reason #2: You are putting something off because you don’t “feel” like doing it.
Solution: Make like Spock and ignore your feelings. They’re getting in your way.
Reason #3: You are putting something off because it’s hard, boring, or otherwise unpleasant.
Solution: Use if-then planning.

44. ● Surf the feeling
● Schedule your day (or
someone else will)
● Block distractions
(analog and digital)

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47. Books:
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
Product Management in Practice by Matt LeMay
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hasson
Blogs:
How to make yourself work when you just don’t want to (Heidi Grant, HBR):
https://hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-make-yourself-work-when-you-just-dont-want-to
Articles by remote PM Victor Wu: https://remoteproductmanager.blog/
Resources

48. Contact Me
Angel Navedo
Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelcnavedo/
Email: remoteproductmanager@gmail.com

49. www.productschool.com
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