Kara Gillis

AMA: Splunk Sr. Director of Product Management , Kara Gillis on Stakeholder Management

November 2 @ 10:00AM PT
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Kara Gillis
Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte2y
TLDR: Stay aligned by clearly defining your roles and responsibilities. There are published RACI models on the role of PMM. Align on a RACI and stick to it. Then establis...
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Kara Gillis
Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte2y
If I am in my current role managing PMs, I care about the following success metrics:How are each of the team members progressing on their areas of ownership, achievement ...
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Kara Gillis
Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte2y
If this is an HR issue - please involve HR right away. I'm intentionally going to assume it's not for this question.As a people leader, your role is to provide a psycholo...
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Kara Gillis
Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte2y
I have led different sizes of product teams and single product teams or multiple product teams within an org.My philosophy is to structure a team to make ownership and de...
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Kara Gillis
Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte2y
TLDR: get as much feedback as early as you can from your customers to validate the use case you're solving and your approach to solving it, validate the solution with pro...
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