How to Lead in Product Management
About this book
Pichler's book on leading without authority. Covers the mindset shift, listening and empathy as working tools, guiding stakeholders and development teams towards decisions, handling conflict, and the specific practices for collaborative decision making including consent and consensus. Aimed at product people who own an outcome but manage nobody, which is the usual situation.
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- The product owner in organisational contextThe accountability is fixed, but the organisation around it is not. How reporting lines, funding models and team counts change what a product owner can actually decide.
- Project stakeholder engagementFinding the people a project affects, understanding where each of them stands, and closing the gap between that and where the project needs them.
- Leading a project teamRunning the work and leading the people are two jobs held by one person. The leadership style that works is the one the competence and confidence of each team member require for the task in hand.
- Stakeholder communicationsProactive communication with the people affected by the product, from strategy through execution, on a rhythm rather than in response to escalation.