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Product Management Team · Establishing Product Management

How do you measure the performance of the product team, considering only product managers, group product managers and product head?

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?

Subu Baskaran
Subu Baskaran

Splunk Director of Product Management • 7mo

I evaluate the performance of the product team—IC PMs, GPMs, and product leads—across five core dimensions: customer satisfaction, quality of deliverables, clarity of str...
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What's your framework to prioritizing needs/deliverables when you're the first Product Manager at a company establishing the function?

Tamar Hadar
Tamar Hadar

Senior Director of Product | Strategic Planning, Mentoring | Formerly The Knot Worldwide, Trello (Atlassian) • 4y

As a first PM, you will need to be very judicious with how you allocate your time and resources. In fact, I think that’s true for larger companies as well. There are alwa...
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When there’s a lot of top-down direction and competing priorities, how do you cut through the noise to advocate for what you believe is the most impactful opportunity?

How do you balance staying aligned with leadership while still driving conviction in your point of view?

Deepti Pradeep
Deepti Pradeep

Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud) • 11mo

Data is at the heart of every negotiation. First, deeply understand what levers drive your specific business and where the biggest problem areas. For example, do you hav...
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With the tech industry increasingly shifting toward AI-driven products and experiences, how do you see the role of growth product managers evolving?

What new skills, mindsets, or areas of ownership do you think will define success for growth PMs in this new landscape?

Deepti Pradeep
Deepti Pradeep

Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud) • 11mo

Product Growth has always used AI to some extent - we have always leveraged various types of models like propensity models for revenue optimization, predictive models to ...
717 Views

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?

Leo Sadeq
Leo Sadeq

Lead Product Manager and GTM Specialist | Formerly Mailchimp - Caspian - Zeda.io • 1y

Id say the main key things to do is to focus on agility and results over rigid frameworks.1. Start with outcomes, not inputs. Align the team around clear measurable outco...
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If you were inheriting a team where the company had split product discovery from delivery (PM's look after discovery and a Delivery manager looks after delivery) what actions would you take? What if you couldn't change the structure?

Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass

Typeform Chief Product Officer • 2y

Navigating a team where product discovery and delivery are split can be likened to steering a ship where the mapmakers and sailors operate in silos. My aim would be to br...
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What is your framework to prioritize product areas and features when you have limited engineering or product management resources as the head of the product area?

Adrianne Wang Martinson
Adrianne Wang Martinson

TikTok Head of Product, AI-powered Automated Services | Formerly Airbnb, Microsoft, Salesforce, Box • 4y

Resource constraints are a very common challenge for any team and company that I’ve worked for. I tend to focus on business priorities and how the identified product area...
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