Natalia Baryshnikova

AMA: Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy & Planning, Natalia Baryshnikova on Building a Product Management Team

October 9 @ 10:00AM PT
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Natalia Baryshnikova
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning1y
It's easy for teams to over-index on day to day customer issues and lose sight of innovation; the opposite is unlikely. If your team has customer focus figured out (if no...
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Should CX teams and Product Management teams be on the same team? Pros/Cons?
I've worked with a few CX leaders who now have product managers reporting to them. Curious to know the benefits/risks of having them combined.
Natalia Baryshnikova
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning1y
There is nothing inherently wrong with having someone with a title "product manager" reside on a CX team. The caveat is depending on what the expected scope of that PM is...
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Natalia Baryshnikova
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning1y
First, let's define what "well-rounded" means. Commonly, there are a few types of parameters that go into this:Seniority balance - you don't want the team to be all too s...
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Natalia Baryshnikova
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning1y
At Atlassian - and I know this is true for other product organization with a strong writing culture - we invest a lot into internal comms about PM updates and activities....
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Natalia Baryshnikova
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning1y
The hardest part in this scenario is to accurately capture the moment when you tap out of your own capacity and need to bring on someone else. One potential framework for...
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