Product/project managers main goal is to identify and fill potential gaps in the teams’ common shared understanding.
All key participants need to have a common understanding of:
Who they are solving the problem for?
What is the problem being solved?
Why is it being solved?
Spend time on closing the gaps, leave the teams alone for everything else. Provide context and get out of the way.
Ngl… I like this. We’re off to a good start.
Main documents you’ll likely to work on as a Product/Project manager:
- roadmap
- Product Design Requirements
- backlog
Nobody likes documents, everybody needs documents.
These documents spell out the common understanding and are built after the discovery phase.
Discovery phase?!? I love the sound of that!
There are lots of projects around here that could benefit from having a product manager on the team! I bet you could try out all these skills and new ways of working in the context of an app, site or service being built on nostr. Could be a great learning / testing ground and get you some real experience to put on a resume.
One step ahead of me, as always. Will start advertising my intent to intern (🤪) after a week or so of soaking in the concepts.
Rock, I do not know who I am no more I sure hope I am at least still a fast learner
It’s not about you as a manager, it’s about the team. (I’ve always been better at helping others than helping myself, this could work… if I feel I am helping myself by helping others)
How to shape an effective team?
Atlassian suggests a few plays that can help shaping the team in the right direction:
Team Posters,
Roles and Responsibilities,
Network of Teams Play
Working Agreements
Team Posters
“Well, they are not really posters. They are documents” (I knew it, liaaars)
The poster presents the purpose and direction of the team to new members or other teams, and as a reminder for the team itself. This is discussed and agreed by the team. The poster also includes relevant details of team members (pfp, contacts, time zone…)
The poster also includesthe common understanding of:
what problems are being solved, why and for who?
Agreed upon metrics of assessment.
Current strategy
Communication channels
As a manager you are responsible to keep the discussion on point, keep them focused on task at hand. The documents will be useful, the discussion even more so.
Repeat the process every 3 months.
Be sure to follow nostr:npub1du6sgl90wse0cz44fg50a4kg9ea4sgctlxps90ccx58lw8ssgv9qhjyf3c for product management wisdom. I hope he’ll post some blog post links soon.
Already following 🙏
