Want to transform your product team into a collaborative powerhouse? Join our expert panel of product managers as they share the tools and processes they’ve used to break down silos and create an effective culture of collaboration.
Our panel will answer your most pressing questions and dive into their favorite collaboration tools built for product teams (spoiler: not Zoom or Slack). This will be a collaborative webinar—please share your perspective and challenges when you register and the panel will dissect the results live.
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What's in Your Product Stack: Collaboration
1. What’s in your
product stack?
Collaboration
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7. What is your biggest challenge
vis-a-vis team collaboration?
8. ● Establish and maintain a sense of team
● Drive alignment toward goals
● Use feedback to iterate
Collaboration
fundamentals
9. Your Questions
“Delivering as one team; our
product mgmt and development
teams are not collaborating as
well as they could.”
“How to build a team attitude
instead of an order taking
attitude (tell me what to do,
I will wait).”
10. ● Make time to build rapport within team
○ Share your history & fun facts
○ Share personal motivations
○ Play games
○ Celebrate wins, even remotely
● Resources & Activities:
○ ShayHi.com: online icebreaker
designed for remote teams (free)
○ Know your team
○ Hopes & Fears activity
○ Games: skribbl.io, Among Us
○ Snapshot challenge
Establish and maintain
a sense of team
12. ● Make time to build rapport within team
○ Share your history & fun facts
○ Share personal motivations
○ Play games
○ Celebrate wins, even remotely
● Resources & Activities:
○ ShayHi.com: online icebreaker
designed for remote teams (free)
○ Know your team
○ Hopes & Fears activity
○ Games: skribbl.io, Among Us
○ Snapshot challenge
Establish and maintain
a sense of team
13. What do you view as your two most
valuable collaboration tools?
14. … most valuable collaboration tools?
Other responses
● Mural, Figma, Whimsical (similar to Miro)
● “An open heart and an open mind”
● “Empathy”
● “Openness and acceptance”
● “My manager and the scrum master”
● “Ability to mediate”
15. Your Questions
“How to make sure every
information and priority change is
communicated properly to the
whole team.”
“Ways to help team
members connect individual
work to what's at stake.”
16. Always know what you’re aiming for
● Goals & anti-goals
○ at start
○ stoplight check-ins
● Risks & mitigations
● Group idea generation (dump and sort) +
round robin
Adhere to rituals
● IPMs - Iteration Planning Meetings
● Stand ups
● Demos
● Retrospectives
Drive and maintain
alignment
18. Always know what you’re aiming for
● Goals & anti-goals
○ at start
○ stoplight check-ins
● Risks & mitigations
● Group idea generation (dump and sort) +
round robin
Adhere to rituals
● IPMs - Iteration Planning Meetings
● Stand ups
● Demos
● Retrospectives
Drive and maintain
alignment
19. Your Questions
“How to keep positive in
retrospectives when
addressing issue.”
“Ways to create safe,
creative spaces for
feedback.”
20. ● 1-1 check-ins and feedback
○ Team Speedback
● Team Retrospectives
● Lean Startup: build, measure, learn
● Agile/XP: continuous deployment
● Resources:
○ Retro Tools: funretro.io, Miro, Google
sheets, Postfacto
○ Book: Radical Candor
○ Book: Extreme Programming
Explained, 2nd Ed.
Use feedback to
iterate on team
and product
22. Live Q & A
Resources doc
https://bit.ly/3drJuEb
23. Thank You!
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