2023 WK13
Big bets, Leaders, Stakeholder Management, Build MVP, OKRs, Product Trio, Your Best
Deliver big bet initiatives
Delivering features, experimental products and solving small, well-defined problems are relatively straightforward product development. What about delivering big bet initiatives, major solutions, and modernisation attempts that can be complex and involve multiple stakeholders from inside and outside of your organisation? (9 min read)
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Why are so few women in management positions? The popular explanations range from women just aren’t capable of being leaders to women just don’t want to be leaders. According to the author, however, the absence of women in leadership roles has less to do with women themselves and more to do with how we interpret leadership traits. (10 min read)
3 Ways To Improve Stakeholder Management
The term “stakeholder management” sounds a bit exhausting, like a chore at the end of a string of complex tasks. We may also tend to think of stakeholder management as a kind of ancillary, professional politicking, rather than something totally necessary to move a project forward. When we think of it in those terms, or in some related way, it can be very easy to decide to avoid doing stakeholder management entirely. But these ideas about stakeholder management are wrong. (5 min read)
How to Build An MVP | Startup School
Y Combinator Group Partner, Michael Seibel, explains how to build a minimum viable product (MVP) for your startup idea. Using examples from real YC companies, Michael walks through how to determine your MVP feature set, build prototypes and demos for user testing, and present your MVP to early customers or investors. (16 min watch)
How to Write OKRs That Don’t Suck by Adrian Howard
In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, consultant, coach and trainer Adrian Howard explains how to write OKRS that, in his words, “don’t suck”. (25 min watch)
Core Concept: The Product Trio
Do you work on a cross-functional product team? How often do you work together to make team decisions about what to build? Or does your product manager write requirements, your designer designs, and your engineers code? What’s a product trio? Why are they becoming so popular? And how can you get started with this way of working? (3 min watch)
What it means to do your best
Doing your best is about the position you find yourself in when you show up. Over the long term, the average person who constantly puts themselves in a good position beats the genius who finds themselves in a poor position. What looks like talent is often good positioning. And the best way to put yourself in a good position is with good preparation. (2 min read)