I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk coach and instructor Hope Gurion to discuss how leaders can hold empowered product teams accountable to outcomes.
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WIP, Multi-Tasking, Context Switching (Video)
Saying “we need to lower work in progress” is like saying “we should do less” (to people who aren’t versed in the underlying theory). It doesn’t go over well! Instead, it is better to talk about multi-tasking, context switching, plans going stale, and delaying delivering valuable things.
Forget Scrum Masters. Focus on Outcomes.
The year was 1995, and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction wasn’t the only chaotic thing shaking up the world. Javascript had just hit the scene and everyone in the software development industry was frantically trying to build things as quickly as possible, mostly leaving process to happenstance. At best, any attempt to build faster was ineffective. At worst, it was counterproductive.
TBM 200: Product Team / Enabling Team Collaboration
Introducing the new TBM numbering scheme! This is my 200th TBM post since January 2020, so it is as good a time as any to redo the numbering scheme. How can product teams work more effectively with enabling teams like education (external and internal), documentation (external and internal), support, content and communications, product marketing and customer marketing, internal tools, legal, etc.?
What Could You Do to Untrap Your Team?
Challenges are natural. Overcoming them is what differentiates the great from the rest.
Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: Measuring Product and Team Performance
For years, I’ve shared that Product Talk’s outcome is to increase the number of teams who adopt the continuous discovery habits that I outlined in my book. The challenge with […]
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What Is An Engineering Manager?
Depending on your niche, industry, or company size, an engineering manager
could be put in charge of a lot of different initiatives and teams.
could be put in charge of a lot of different initiatives and teams.
Some days you may be stuck in cross-functional meetings with other
departments, flexing your soft skills. Others might be spent deep in code
review or training a brand-new engineer.
Each day might bring a new challenge and opportunity to your desk.
Engineering managers, or EMs, drive the most impact by harnessing the power
of an engineering team. Not writing lines of code.
But it seems that many companies hear the word “engineering” and forget
about the “manager” part — and then they are confused why their new
engineering manager can’t do both!
So let’s break down what an engineering manager really looks like