Tag: Team
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“The Team that Managed Itself” (Book Review)
Reading the back cover of “The Team that Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership” by Christina Wodtke there’s an interesting quote from Marty Cagan, internationally renowned product management thinker and author: “In this new book, Christina has tackled what I consider the most important problem in the tech industry. Only a small fraction of product…
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“Team Topologies” (Book Review)
In 2019 Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais published “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow”. The book sheds a light on four fundamental team types: Stream-Aligned Teams: A stream-aligned team is a team aligned to a single, valuable stream of work; this might be a single product or service, a single set…
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What does it mean to be a product leader?!
A few months ago I sat on a panel with some great product people* and the topic of product leadership came up. “I’m not a product leader” I thought to myself. A good people manager perhaps, but not a leader?! Was this a case of impostor syndrome or a need to understand what product leadership…
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“When They Win, You Win” (Book Review)
Russ Laraway is a military commander turned people leader, currently working as Chief People Officer at Goodwater Capital. I recently heard Laraway talk about his first book “When They Win, You Win” on Jason Knight’s great “One Knight in Product” podcast and it prompted me to read Laraway’s book. Laraway’s frustration with a lack of…
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My Product Management Toolkit (53): Giving and Receiving Feedback – Part 2
I know I’ve written about feedback before (see My Product Management Toolkit no. 30 for example). I know I’ve admitted that receiving feedback isn’t something that comes easy to me. And I know that I can definitely improve the ways in which I give feedback. Learning about feedback was one of the reasons I recently…
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