Digital products leadership

Foreword

About the book

1. Expectation management
2. Leading Product Development: the art and science of leading digital products

About the author - Joaquim Torres (Joca)

1. What is your purpose?

Thanks

1. Concepts

What are digital products and product management?

1. Platforms
2. Digital product management
3. To know more

Roles, responsibilities, and seniority

1. Seniority levels
2. What is your seniority?
3. Summing up

Product management career

1. And then?
2. Group Product Manager
3. Interim leadership
4. CPO or Product VP
5. Y career
6. Summing up

Product vision

1. What is a product vision?
2. Product vision creation process
3. Summing up

Strategy and objectives

1. Creating your product strategy
2. Reviewing your product strategy
3. Summing up

Team structure

1. Product Teams
2. Organizing product teams
3. Organizing squads in a product team
4. Structural Teams
5. Implementation
6. What is the best ratio between Eng, UX, and PM?
7. Conway’s Law
8. Tuckman’s stages of team evolution
9. Business units
10. What makes a group of people behave as a team?
11. Summing up

Developing the team and managing expectations

1. Empathy
2. Communication
3. Business skills
4. Summing up

Leadership anti-patterns

1. Documentation
2. Focus on data
3. Big rewrite
4. Wishlist
5. Summing up
6. Principles

People: priority #1, always

1. People: priority #1, always
2. Rotten apples
3. Summing up

Leading is like being a doctor

1. Agile leadership
2. Summing up

Leading under pressure

1. Think of people and teams as balloons
2. Summing up

Mentoring

1. A two-way street
2. Summing up

How and when to delegate

1. Ways to do
2. Learning opportunity
3. Summing up

Culture and values

1. What is culture?
2. Don’t waste time looking for culprits, focus on learning
3. Don’t compare work situations with war, nobody wants to kill anyone
4. Profit and revenue are a consequence, should not be the main focus
5. Summing up

Transparency, the foundation of a high-performance team

1. Open book management
2. Clóvis Bojikian, former director of HR at Semco, on how to implement organizational democracy
3. My view on the importance of transparency in leadership
4. Summing up

Diversity, the basis of the best products

1. And what does diversity have to do with digital product management?
2. Diversity of perspectives
3. Summing up

Release early and often

1. Product culture
2. If you are not ashamed of your first version, you took too long to launch
3. MMF — Minimal Marketable Feature
4. Summing up

Focus on the problem

1. Problem mindset vs. solution mindset
2. Projects vs. problems
3. Problem solving teams vs. solution implementing teams
4. The top-down trap
5. Summing up

Result delivery

1. Feature Factory
2. Focus on the result
3. Summing up

Ecosystem mindset

1. Diversifying - and digitizing - a product portfolio
2. Summing up
3. Tools

Vision, strategy, objectives and team structure

1. Summing up

Measuring and managing productivity

1. Measurement
2. What impacts productivity
3. Put the topic of productivity at the center of the discussion
4. Summing up

Measuring and managing quality

1. How can we improve the quality of our product?
2. Another example of bug tracking
3. Quality is not just bug control
4. Why is quality so important?
5. Fail fast vs. learn fast
6. Summing up

Metrics

1. Metric types
2. Tracking metrics
3. Summing up

Relationships

1. RASCI
2. Power-Interest Grid
3. Empathy
4. Summing up

Hire the right people

1. Interviewing
2. Summing up

Feedback and performance evaluation

1. Characteristics of a good product manager
2. Product managers need to know how to program?
3. Performance evaluation
4. Retrospective, an alternative to the performance evaluation process
5. Promotions and salary increases
6. Summing up

Ceremonies

1. 1:1 meetings
2. Leadership team meetings
3. Product Council
4. Product Update
5. Team structure meeting
6. Summing up

Summing up

1. Concepts
2. Principles
3. Tools

Conclusion

1. Shall we continue the conversation?