Join Petra Wille & Omar Sallam as they discuss concepts and frameworks of building strong product cultures in different sizes and scales of organizations and unpack some of Petra’s best insights from her books “Strong Product People” & “Strong Product Communities” as well as her personal blog articles that focuses on how leadership can work on fixing root cause problems in the ways of how Product teams are working together and with other internal functions rather than just focusing on unblocking challenges on micro level only.
Key Takeaways:
How to prepare yourself for your first leadership role
Things to consider when building and scaling a product organization
Establishing cross-functional working frameworks between product and all other functional partners
00:00 - Introduction
05:23 - Writing “Strong Product People”
08:25 - Preparing for First Leadership Role
14:30 - Engaging & Motivating Your Product Team
20:30 - Product Org Positioning Within Other Functions
25:30 - Sizing Scopes of Product Teams
28:52 - Conflict Resolution at Scale
37:05 - Fixing The Shipyard, Not Just The Ships
42:38 - The Myth of Developed vs. Developing Markets
49:00 - Focusing on VC Backed Environments
58:20 - A Sneak Peek on “Strong Product Communities”
Petra Wille is an product discovery and product leadership coach and author who specializes in coaching product leaders, particularly Heads of Product and VPs of Product. Petra is the author of “Strong Product People” & “Strong Product Communities” who’s been helping product teams boost their skill sets and up their game since 2013. Alongside her freelance work, Petra co-organizes and curates Mind the Product Engage Hamburg and Product at Heart
Connect with Petra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-wille-b8b1329/
Omar Sallam is a Product Evangelist with over 14 years of notable experience building great tech products around the world for the likes of Booking.com and Delivery Hero among others. Omar has also lent his talents to others as a Product Mentor, Speaker and Evangelist at different conferences, platforms and educational institutions and he is the host of The Product.Live.
Connect with Omar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsallam
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