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What are the key processes you'd set up when expanding the PM team from 1 to multiple people?

Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
Expanding the team from 1 to multiple people comes with a set of pitfalls that I’ve learned the hard way. And many other factors such as Org culture, line of business, pr...
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Avantika Gomes
Figma Director of Product3y
There are a few that I consider important to set up (and refine) as you grow your team: Processes for top-down sharing: As your team grows, knowledge sharing becomes har...
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Rupali Jain
Optimizely Chief Product Officer4y
I'm going to suggest a few processes, but please do scale each process to the size of the organization. Treat your processes like you treat your product - establish 2-3 i...
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Patrick Davis
Google Group Product Manager3y
Here's how I'd think about it: Some planning cadence where strategy and roadmap can be reviewed at different levels of fidelity. (Annual, Quarterly etc.) Product review...
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Janet Brunckhorst
Aurora Solar Director of Product Management3y
The most important process you can set up is a retrospective of some kind. I talk about this in more detail in another answer, but as you add people, ensuring that you ha...
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Urvi Chetta
GitLab Group Product Manager3y
More often than not, we are in scaling phase as a company/group when trying to expand from 1 PM to multiple PMs, I want to ensure that following is in place: Clearly defi...
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management3y
Adding every new member to the team adds friction and operation overhead increases. You will need to set up processes that allow the team to operate independently and wor...
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Omar Eduardo Fernández
GitLab Director of Product Management2y
I'd first focus on setting up a robust planning process so that no matter which PM other teams are working with, they know how to make requests and how they'll be handled...
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Sharad Goel
Carta VP Product, Upmarket & Private Equity3y
Great question and I'll give the starting place because with each step function in growth comes another set of process challenges. Leveling guide along with the competenc...
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Amina Bouabdallah
Atlassian Principal Product Manager2y
First things first: work with your team to create processes. Much like a building a product, a product leader should interview their team to understand their pain points ...
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