AMA: GitLab Group Manager, Product, Derek Ferguson on Influencing the C-Suite

I've been there. It's not easy to be the PM for a legacy product with declining value. But, it is possible to reposition yourself. It requires some hard work and strategi...

Find out what the stakeholders need from you and set up a regular meeting cadence with them. It can be a lot of meetings, but setting these meetings up with clear agendas...

This is a constant challenge. Not only do they require different amounts of detail, different roles care about different things. The CEO wants to know what business impac...

Every executive is different and their roles necessitate them caring about different information. I've found that PMs often interact the most with CEOs, CPOs, and CMOs. B...

Building the right alliances is fairly critical for building your own organizational capital and driving change. Find the right people to ally yourself with and don’t be ...

I think that everyone struggles with this when they start as a PM. Typically, I've found that it's simultaneously exciting and terrifying to get exposure to the C-Suite a...