What Product Leaders Do
summary
Defines four concrete leader tasks: hire and train a product team so individual PMs own delivery, set and protect a clear product strategy, build cross functional trust to align sales marketing support and execs, and coach execs to stick to outcomes not output. Calls out specifics like mentoring newbies for a year, avoiding proxies by insisting PMs talk to customers directly, accepting a roughly 50/30/20 engineering split for features infra and validation, and designing OKRs around outcomes not velocity.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20About Rich
- 2:27What Product Managers Do
- 9:30What is a Product Leader
- 10:24Product Leader Responsibilities
- 13:07Designing Nurturing a Team
- 15:00How Product Managers Add Value
- 17:14The Scrum Definition of Product Owner
- 19:18Strategy Tools Outcomes
- 20:24Outcomes
- 20:57Crossfunctional teams
- 22:27Working on solutions
- 23:26Working with executives
- 24:51Pie chart
- 26:54Takeaways
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