Product Management - Product Management Team Tags

Some companies go through challenges such as excessive bugs, refactoring, in many cases we have the company pursuing the delivery of short-term projects and sometimes the product team is the driver. Do you believe it is possible to demand performance from a product team based on individual delivery?

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

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how do you work with engineering manager / design / engineers? is it different when focused on developer audience?

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What is the single most important activity you prioritize as a product leader? Why do you prioritize this activity above all else?

- How might this shift according to company maturity and the maturity of the product you're working on? - For IC PMs, what is the single most important activity that you'd recommend they prioritize? How might this shift according to company maturity and the maturity of the product you're working on?

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Question about org structures - what does your PM team org structure look like?

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How do you break down responsibilities and KPIs for product launches between product management and marketing?

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What is an important KPI that you see product teams completely missing?

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If you were starting out in a rapidly growing company would you start by embedding some best practice and then start to build out a team or start by building a small but mighty team and tackle it as a group?

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What is a good product manager to engineer ratio to maintain as you scale?

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How do you communicate product management updates and activities to the rest of the company?

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If your PM team has only one or two people responsible for covering multiple products with complex features, how would you recommend dividing the workload in the short-term so as best to support long-term growth and expansion of the team?

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When is it appropriate or feasible to have multiple Product Managers at different levels (PM, SPM, PPM) within a team/squad, without altering the size of the engineering team?

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How do you think about shared KPI’s with your engineering team? And what are ones that product teams often miss?

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How should product split feature adoption KPIs with the product marketing team?

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How to make sure KPIs are not 'proxies' to what we want to achieve but directly measure it?

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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?

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How do product KPI’s change with a self-serve product?

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How do you break down responsibilities and KPIs for product launches between product management and product marketing?

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What are good OKRs for product management?

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How do you scale your customer feedback loop?

You're collecting feedback from many sources. What tools or techniques do you use to scale this process to prevent bottlenecks when disseminating information?

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how do you think about measuring business impact when your products aren't directly monetized?

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What is your advice for creating and/or improving the product management process when joining a small but growing team? Particularly for a small company with no or little structure?

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How have you dealt with possible overlaps between Product Managers, Business Owners and Marketing?

I was just reading an article by Marty Cagan about the scenario of Business Owners "versus" Product Managers, especially for companies using a matrix organization. Now, I'm living in a similar situation, and not only in the case of Business Owners, but it seems that depending on the side of the organization, the scope of Product Managers is divided more than expected, causing various types of issues. So, I'm curious if other companies, big or small, have also had to deal with this. Here's the link to the article: https://www.svpg.com/product-managers-vs-business-owners/

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How do you approach building a well rounded product team?

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As a Group Product Manager who has had experience working at several big companies that provide different products and services, what are the top 3 skills that you think have helped you succeed at these companies

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What is the most effective way to scale a Product Management team beyond the first Product Manager?

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How do you define and set SLAs with engineers?

I'm currently struggling to define checkout error rates for our e-commerce platform. We're currently at 1.5%. Personally, I think it's too high. However, I have nothing to substantiate my opinion.

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How do you make sure you're listening to your customers?

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What are the challenges you have encountered establishing the product management function in product areas that do not have it？

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Question about org structures - what does your product team org structure look like?

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What is your 30-60-90 day plan when you go into an org with the intention of setting up a PM function for the first time?

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How do you drive alignment across all parts of the organization?

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