Keynote by Christina Schreck and myself presented at Productized Conference Lisbon. Maintaining a healthy product culture needs active care once your organization grows. We share practical examples of our work at XING for how to address two very important aspects for XING's growing team of product managers:
- Learning: How to make sure that all product people get better every day?
- Alignment: How to make sure that various product initiatives across a growing organization are well aligned without sacrificing team autonomy & agile ways of working?
39. The better Product Managers are aligned
about the WHY and WHAT of their product,
the more autonomy they will be granted
with regards to HOW they build it.
40. A Framework for Collaborative, Bottom-Up Alignment
Alignment Tool 1
AUFTRAGSKLÄRUNG
41. 3 Dimensions of Alignment (driven by PM)
Laterally: Peers & Partners
Inwards: Team
Upwards: Management
49. Clarification Manifesto
1. If you get stuck: trigger escalation early!
2. Present escalation jointly!
3. Be clear about what’s unclear!
4. Decision makers: Clarify, then hand it back!