This document summarizes Michael Peck's webinar on building a minimum viable product team. It discusses taking a flexible approach to the product manager role, building a resourcing roadmap alongside the product roadmap, and leading conversations around operational excellence. Key recommendations include empowering others, separating roles from organizational charts, highlighting successes, and defining product epics and associated resourcing needs to provide structure and predictability. The goal is to gain credibility, establish practices, improve time to market, and support recruitment by clarifying roles and scenarios. Overall it stresses the importance of smooth operations and defining ways of working to support the team.

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7. About Me
Anthropologist turned consultant and product
management professional.
10+ years of experience in tech, finance, retail,
healthcare & life sciences, manufacturing, and telecomm.
Recently founded a product, ops, and technical
marketing consulting company.
Lives part-time in Japan and part-time in USA (Chicago).
Spent the last 3 years in The Netherlands @ Adyen
Lived and worked for 8 years in SF Bay Area before that
at Salesforce, Slalom, and Deloitte Consulting.
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8. Takeaways for the Session
● Be flexible in your role and activities as a product management leader.
● Build a resourcing roadmap alongside your product roadmap
● Lead the conversation in operational excellence

9. Role of PM Leader
● Chase impact above building an army
● Empower others leaders to take charge in spaces
● Identify gaps and define process and role solutions
Webinar > Role Flexibility

10. Where Do I Start?
Empower Others
Webinar > Role Flexibility > Content
Explain the key functions of a
well-oiled product team.
Conduct workshops with
documented examples.
Expose a wide range of people to
what you’re doing early on.
Select an exemplar project or
milestone with a planned
retrospective.
Separate roles in project from org.
chart to help reduce red tape.
Highlight and share often
everyone’s team R&R in the
success along the way.
Incubate early roles until they
have more standing.
Write JDs and reimagine
organizational charts.
Used dotted lines and focus
on commitment and
dedication not people
manager relationships.
Show How It’s Done Be an Org. Changer

11. Resourcing Roadmap
● Gives your resourcing needs a home in the overall story
● Often reveals to you resource needs outside of PM roles
● Provides an advantages to recruitment activities
Webinar > Resourcing Roadmap

12. Define Product Epics then Plan Resourcing
Structure for Scale
Webinar > Resourcing Roadmap > Content
Gaining credibility by
providing predictable
releases.
Establishing the practice
of feature design,
development, and
deployment.
Focus:
Dev Ops and Eng. Focus
Platform-level changes
which provide a
foundation for innovation.
Validate end-to-end
journeys and define global
personas qualitatively.
Focus:
UX-R, PM lead, more Dev
Improve time to market by
optimizing activities
around product
development.
Improve metrics around
efficiency of product
development.
Focus:
Localization Mgmt, Prod
Ops
Release Efficiency Operational Efficiency
Experiment with proposed
improvements.
Set up platform for
prototypes w/ ability to
experiment with proposed
improvements
quantitatively.
Focus:
Data science, UX-D,
Front-end Dev.
CX Journey Redesign

13. Product Epic Themes & Resourcing Needs
Webinar > Resourcing Roadmap > Content
Epic
Themes
Resourcing
Time
Top 40 backlog
Scaleable Structure for Global
CX Journey Redesign
Operations
DEV
DEV
DEV
(Ops)
Sr-PM
DEV
UX-R UX-D
Jr-PM
Prod Ops Mgr
Data
Sci.
I18n Project Mgr

14. Recruitment points
Initial Screening
Webinar > Resourcing Roadmap > Content
Helps a recruiter find the
right candidate.
Recruiters prioritize roles
they can explain and
understand.
Helps with continuity of
hiring multiple roles.
Context and anchoring
allows a quick screen to
have real conversation.
Allows good candidates
that the team has vision
and direction and their
role is an important piece
of the puzzle.
Clarity for team and
partners participating in
interviews.
Candidate can approach a
case or technical interview
with inside knowledge.
Recruitment Partnership Interview Scenarios

15. Operational Excellence
● Smooth operations in product as well as with dependency groups is key to success
● Defining and documenting ways of working is worth the effort to support your team
● Workforce efficiency has a business value which is not often respected or considered
Webinar > Operational Excellence

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