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How do you effectively split your attention between contributing individually and coaching your PM's? Do these two priorities ever conflict with each other?

Reid Butler
Cisco Director of Product Management1y
Of course they do! It's always a balance between those two sides. Mixing personal contributions with coaching other product managers can create tension if you’re not min...
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Jesse Tremblay
HubSpot Director of Product1y
I'll be honest - this is something I still struggle with. While I try to establish clear ownership boundaries between my responsibilities and my teams', overlap is inevit...
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Sharad Goel
Carta VP Product, Upmarket & Private Equity2y
It depends on the role you want to play and the need of the company. In my current role given the size of my organization I cannot be an IC on any feature. So you need to...
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Melissa Ushakov
GitLab Group Manager, Product Management3y
Contributing myself and supporting my team can be at odds with each other. Coaching and supporting my team is always my number one priority. There are times when I simpl...
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JJ Miclat
Zendesk Director of Product Management1y
Coaching my PMs takes priority, people management is a force-multiplier if done correctly/effectively.I make individual contributions only if truly needed - a PM backfill...
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Paresh Vakhariya
Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon2y
As a PM leader, it is imperative to balance individual work and managing teams of PM's.There are some key tasks I would focus on as an IC such as setting up the right vis...
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Ad Attias
Noname Security Director of Product Management3y
As a manager for PM's, splitting your attention between contributing individually and coaching your product managers can be a challenging task. However, it is important t...
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