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Patrick Davis
Google Group Product Manager • August 19
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 with key cross functional stakeholders that isn't viewed as a gate keeping exercise but a feedback process and of......Read More
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management • May 5
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, product lifecycle etc, have a telling effect on the type of pitfalls you’ll encounter, so take this with a grain of salt. Here ar......Read More
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Ashka Vakil
Mezmo Sr. Director, Product Management • December 13
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 work with each other effectively and efficiently. Your main job will be driving alignment within the team and across the organizat......Read More
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Avantika Gomes
Figma Group Product Manager, Production Experience • December 22
There are a few that I consider important to set up (and refine) as you grow your team: 1. Processes for top-down sharing: As your team grows, knowledge sharing becomes harder but also more critical. PMs can only do their best work when they have context about conversations and updates ......Read More
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Janet Brunckhorst
Aurora Solar Director of Product Management • October 28
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 have ways of sharing and improving your processes is fundamentally important. Any process you introduce should have a strong r......Read More
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Urvi Chetta
GitLab Group Product Manager • May 5
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: 1. Clearly defined roles & responsibilities for PM * What outcomes we want to drive * what processes we want to devel......Read More
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Rupali Jain
Chief Product Officer • March 2
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 internal customer problems that are actually worth solving, and solve them with an MVP of a process and iterate as you learn - d......Read More
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Sharad Goel
Homebase VP Product • May 11
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 competencies you're looking for so you can hire great PMs based on what you need. If you hire great PMs and set the right expectation......Read More
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