What's in Your Product Stack: Collaboration
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The webinar, hosted by The Product Stack, focuses on enhancing collaboration within product teams by discussing challenges and providing practical solutions. Key topics include establishing team rapport, maintaining alignment with shared goals, and the importance of feedback in iterating on team dynamics and products. Various tools and resources for improving collaboration are also shared during the session.
What's in Your Product Stack: Collaboration
- 1. What’s in your product stack? Collaboration This webinar brought to you by www.TheProductStack.com
- 2. The Product Stack is a group of like-minded organizations that offer practical solutions for modern product teams. Our quest is to shine a light on the challenges everyday product teams face and offer up real advice and solutions that address these challenges head on. Join the conversation at www.TheProductStack.com.
- 3. Ronan Dunlop Pivotal Tracker / VMWare The Product Stack Co-Founder – Pivotal Tracker Head of Marketing Moderator
- 4. Today’s Panel Isabelle Berner Director of Product Management at Def Method Jay Badenhope Product Manager at Geometeter. LLC
- 5. IMAGINE 2017.ALL RIGHTS WWW.WEBSITE.COM Agenda 1. Collaboration fundamentals 2. Tools & processes 3. Q&A Submit questions at any time during the webinar!
- 6. How well does your team collaborate?
- 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
- 21. Postfacto.io
- 22. Live Q & A Resources doc https://bit.ly/3drJuEb
- 23. Thank You! Continue the conversation: www.TheProductStack.com Subscribe at: theproductstack.substack.com Read more on this topic: www.productplan.com/product-manager-first-30-days/ www.productplan.com/product-manager-first-90-days/