AMA: Atlassian Head Of Product Management, Confluence Experience, Natalia Baryshnikova on Developing Your Product Management Career
February 16 @ 10:00AM PT
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
Ultimately, prioritization comes down to a chain of decisions. Regardless of the framework that you use, the question I see folks overlooking a lot is "who is the right p...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
First thing I'd recommend is asking your team if there is a formal description of levels and skills associated with each level. More and more companies, whether large org...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
The biggest struggle I have observed is related to transition from an individual level product craft growth to growing that of a group. Andy Grove in High Output Manageme...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
1. Storytelling. You need to be able to tie many disparate pieces of product work - user needs, business goals, technical limitaitons, competitive landscape, innovation o...
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What should you do if your Manager is not helping you grow and you see little growth opportunities? Should you stay at the job and try to learn as much as possible or should you definitely leave the company and look for a new opportunity?
How much time should you give a job and a manager to see if they are a fit in your growth and career?
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
First thing to do is to check with your manager how they think about your growth. They may be thinking that they are helping you, and it is just your perspectives that ar...
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How do you manage the 1000 questions and tasks that are shot at you when you are a PM in an early stage startup?
I'm the first PM in a startup that used to be sales led. I'm trying to set up the proper discovery processes, prioritization tactics and strategy, but I find that extremely hard to do as I'm getting carried away in the day-to-day tasks around requests, issues reported and project management.
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
Startups are all about speed. To move fast, you need to know where you are going (aka what to be ruthlessly focused on) and allocate the most of your time/energy to that....
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
There are three aspects to selling this well: 1. Empathy. You have to start with acknowledging the validity of a need or ask. Folks often skip that step and go straight ...
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How to make a career change to PM?
Any tips, strategy, success stories?
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
See my answer above on breaking into tech as a PM for one of the options. Another option, if you are a mid-to-senior career professional is to build ties with your produc...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
"Assume I don't know anything. Teach me something in the next two minutes about a topic you are passionate about - can be anything". This questions helps me understand ho...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 2y
Will add my favorite question to ask the managers of product managers (GPM, Director and above): "Tell me about a product manager you've worked with, and who's better tha...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
At Atlassian, we look at multiple pillars of value PMs bring to the organization: delivering outcomes (think - moving business KRs and goals), leadership (inspiring other...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
I see a lot of PMs succeeding in startegy and operaitons roles. I have been tapped a few times for COO / Strategy & BizOps / Chief of Staff types roles because of the...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
Being patient when I would like to be impatient. Product management is deeply humbling in that good things often take time. I like to say that I am "tactically impatient,...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
First, like to work on problems that I am passionate about. I love to learn and make impact in areas that I think, pardon high brow speak, will make the world a better pl...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
There is a fork in the PM career path road: one is becoming a people manager, the other becoming an expert in a deep thinking product area sans managing a team. My recom...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
In short, you have to go from being a thinker to being a doer. The biggest mindset change is about learning when to stop with the analysis and transition into acting on t...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
Two ways. First sweet spot is to pick a mid-size startup (round B or C) that is growing. They need folks all the time, and they need folks who can roll up their sleeves a...
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