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Product leadership rules to live by from my experience at Pandora.<\/strong> When joining Pandora, John\u00a0Krawczyk was tasked with building and managing a large team dedicated to their advertising products. From this experience he defined six tactics for building this team<\/a>, and by extension, building great products. These tactics should push you to organize groups around functional pillars and realize that your PMs are<\/em> your product.<\/p>\n

Managing product managers.<\/strong> An inadequate product manager on your team is destructive. Unlike in other roles, there is usually no one to pick up the slack when that person is failing. Consequentially, the product fails and the customer loses. Marty Cagan insists that all new product managers, even highly experienced ones, should complete a three month period<\/a> of studying their customers and technologies. And underperforming product managers should be identified early and let go if they do not improve.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve changed our product team structure 4 times.<\/strong> As Buffer grew, the team tried many strategies for organizing their product teams<\/a>. Starting with simply everyone being on a single product team, they then moved on to a decision-maker process where individuals own various areas of development, then to a fluid process where teams were assembled dynamically to tackle a specific purpose. Finally they arrived at a process, inspired by the Spotify team, where squads are deployed for specific goals and chapters allow individuals with similar functions to learn from one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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