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PRODUCTHEAD: Speaking the same language

PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
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Speak the language of C-level by focusing on revenue, customer benefits, and financials

Without understanding, there can be no empathy

Product managers need to be able to communicate with a wide range of people using different languages

“The worst product managers only...

PRODUCTHEAD: Good product managers are catalysts

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Good product managers amplify the ability of an organisation to generate value

Successful companies have figured out how to align quality, customer value, and sustainable velocity

With no formal entry requirements, many people have piled in to product management with litt...

PRODUCTHEAD: Enough handwringing already

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Be involved and interested, but not on the critical path

Talk about the ideas you threw away, in commercial language

Founders are rejecting the generic advice to delegate everything — this evolves the product manager role

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PRODUCTHEAD: Ingredients for alignment

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For better alignment, leaders should only communicate the why and what of the goal to their teams

Auftragsklärung facilitates alignment through both top-down and bottom-up goal setting

Try to communicate your work’s value to stakeholders in terms they will understand

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PRODUCTHEAD: Showing your value

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One definition of value is the impact of a product team’s work on the company’s success

To deliver value quickly as a new starter, understand people, problems, context, process and culture

We rarely show value to users, the business and others affected by our product on...

PRODUCTHEAD: Sometimes you just need to start over / Mental models

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The Prisoner’s Dilemma shows us that cooperation is a winning strategy in the long term

Faciliate more rational decision-making by helping stakeholders to understand the context better

A mental model is a compression of how something works, keeping key information and ...

PRODUCTHEAD: Coaching is outsourced willpower

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Common challenges leaders encounter are a lack of trust for their teams and executives, a lack of coaching, and letting go of control

How others perceive the value and effectiveness of the product team’s work holds immense transformative power

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PRODUCTHEAD: A quick overview of discovery

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Have a bias to test, learn, and to put code in production

Feed what you learn from exploring solutions back into your understanding of the problem

Help stakeholders visualise their ideas to make them easier to challenge, assess risk and test out

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92: Moving up to a CPO or VP Product role

I’m writing about 100 things I’ve learned the hard way about product management. You can catch up on the previous entries if you like.

Stepping up to a Chief Product Officer (CPO) or VP Product role doesn’t so much change what you do. Rather it amplifies everything. This guide lets you know what to expect.

In this articleIntroductionYour starting pointWhen you’re the senior product person in a startupHow a CPO or VP Product role will differWhat you’ll look after...

PRODUCTHEAD: A reality check

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Customers care about your mission, less about how you’re achieving it

For rapid feedback in discovery, ship and learn from more users, earlier

Changing something that’s been that way for years is hard because of the inertia behind it

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