Main takeaways:
- What it means to lead and develop teams as a Product Manager with possibly no direct reports
- Management of stakeholder expectations in an agile world
- The value of Servant leadership in Product Management
10. - Grew up on a Dairy Farm in WI
- Lived in Seattle, WA for 5 yrs
- Married for 2 years
- 2 Pets: Toby and Penny
- Hobbies: Disney, Fishing, Hunting,
Photography, Nintendo Switch, Scuba Diving,
Learning, Traveling, Hiking
- B.S. in Computer Engineering
- Certifications: PMI-PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM,
PSPO, SPS
- Career Path: Farming > Software Engineering
> Hardware Engineer > Systems Engineer >
Product Manager
- Strong Opinions, Loosely held
Who Am I
11. Experian Ascend Analytical Sandbox
- 204 Monthly Snapshots of depersonalized consumer data (2001)
- Hadoop Database in the the AWS Cloud
- Popular Analytic Tools: SAS, Python, Rstudio, JupyterHub, Tableau, H2O
- 1.3+ Petabytes of data
- Continuously growing and evolving
12. Framework Vs
Rule Book
There are many different agile
frameworks. Learn the basics and use
what makes sense for your team.
14. Agile Mindset
Flexible, not Faster
Foundation of an agile team
● Empowered to self organize and manage
● Culture that accepts risk and embraces failure
● Co-location is nice, but not required
● Strong communication skills
15. Main Roles
Product Owner
● External Facing
● Roadmap/Strategy
● “CEO of the Product”
Product Manager Scrum Master DevTeam
● Internal Facing
● Execution
● Possibly takes over role
of Product Manager
● “CEO of the Product”
● Servant Leader
● Not a Project Manager
● Project Manager
● All members of the
executing team
● QA, Dev, Engineers,
UX, etc
Scrum Team
16. Agile Product Management
But no one reports to me?
Servant Leadership
Only for software?
Waterfall Method
Herd size: 10-60 Cows
Milk Time: 4-6 hours
Volume: 700 – 4200 lbs/day
Kanban Method
Herd size: 250 - 350 Cows
Milk Time: 4-6 hours
Volume: 17k – 24k lbs/day
17. Managing Stakeholder Expectations
But I need a roadmap??
Why does a roadmap need to be a contract?
Many companies are starting to speak “Agile”
Communication is Key
OKR goals - Objectives and Key Results
Create channels for push and pull communication
Communicate the good and the delayed
What about
contracts…
18. Why Hire your product?
Competing Against Luck
What is the reason someone is hiring your
product?
Are those needs changing and evolving?
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