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In Dev-led company, how do you influence development teams that traditionally worked in silos and are resistant to product management / product marketing?

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  1. Eric Bensley
    Eric Bensley

    ServiceNow VP, Product Marketing - CRM • 2mo

    Ensure there is strategic executive sponsorship for PMM's involvement, and if a team is resistant and there's no sponsorship, redirect your energy to where you can have impact. When PMM is hitting a wall with a resistant team: 1. **Check for strategic sponsorship**: Is there an executive who believes PMM should be in this work stream? Without that, you're pushing uphill. 2. **Understand your three bosses**: In PMM, you effectively have a CMO, a head of product, and a head of sales. On any given ...Read More

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  2. Lauren Buchman
    Lauren Buchman

    GitHub Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Google Developers, Observable, Orb • 2mo

    Find the teams that want to be successful, make them successful, and let those wins attract others — don't try to win everyone over at once. In engineering-driven organizations, resistance to PMM is common. Rather than forcing your way in: 1. **Find willing partners**: Identify the teams and individuals who are open to collaboration and want to be successful. 2. **Make them successful**: Focus your energy there and deliver real results. 3. **Tout those wins**: Share the outcomes broadly so other ...Read More

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