{"id":17467,"date":"2021-03-12T14:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/productcollective.com\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:33:39","slug":"lessons-learned-managing-product-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/productcollective.com\/lessons-learned-managing-product-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Learned About Managing Product Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, we ran over 20 different virtual workshops throughout the year. We\u2019re planning a few more this year (<\/span>with a couple coming up<\/span><\/a>), but there was a hidden benefit for me, personally, in helping run these. I learned <\/span>so much<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I got to personally sit through amazing workshops with some of the top product minds out there — like Gibson Biddle, Sarah Doody, April Dunford, Bob Moesta, and so many others. One of the most popular workshops we ran last year was with the venerable Rich Mironov. Rich wrote <\/span>one of the very first books on product management<\/span><\/a> and now considers himself to be a product leadership smokejumper — parachuting into organizations that need help at the leadership level. The entire workshop was focused on making the transition from product person to product <\/span>leader<\/span><\/i>. Several things still stand out to me relating to managing product teams.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Not everybody <\/b>should<\/i><\/b> aspire to want to be a product leader. <\/b>Some people think of Product Leadership as a natural progression in one\u2019s career, but it doesn\u2019t have to be. Some people are great builders. Really<\/i> great builders. But when it comes to managing people, they just aren\u2019t great\u2026 and they don\u2019t like it. There are absolutely places for these people to grow in an organization. But these people shouldn\u2019t be managing product teams.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Teams need nurturing just like products. When you launch a product, your work as a product person is done\u2026 right? Of course not. Just like you constantly need to evolve your product and iterate to your customers\u2019 needs — the same is true for your product team. It needs to be nurtured and it needs to evolve, similarly.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n
  3. Product team structures matter. If you\u2019re not satisfied with the work of your product team, the structure you set up could be the problem. There are several different ways to structure a product team, and they all will impact how your team delivers on output, or much more importantly, outcomes. Structures that keep users <\/span>away<\/span><\/i> from product managers are extremely suspect.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you\u2019re new to product leadership and find yourself overwhelmed, please do give yourself some grace. And remember — <\/span>the Product Collective community<\/span><\/a> is always here to help!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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