The Contextual Product Manager Contextual CEO - David Jones

Steen is Head of Product Management at Atlassian. He was Google Drive's Group Product Manager, VP Product at Nitro after they acquired his startup Sensedoc. Before that he was co-founder of 5th Finger which actually got acquired (not once but) twice! by both Microsoft and Merkle. AND today we are talking All things Product Management.

In this video, I discover that our team is the only one not doing daily standups! Seriously, Richard explains the disciplines they use in a remote WFH world (Melbourne was locked down hard, hard, hard at the time of recording). So we discuss some of the challenges there.
The summary is:
- Airwallex form “squads” that are spear-headed with Product Manager, Designer and Lead Engineer
- There is an over-arching SME strategy.
- Quarterly and Annual OKRs trickle down through the organisation.
opportunity decision trees (Teresa Torres, see Opportunity Solution - - Trees for Product Teams to ideate potential solutions to OKRs”
- Triaging of solutions (see Don’t build shiny objects)
- Monday planning meetings – where broader goals for the week within sprints are agreed
- Daily standups (!)

For a blog post "Customer Support is a Product Managers untapped design resource" where we discuss a missed opportunity in leveraging the direct contact with customer as a data point in product design decisions.

Google PM for Duo, Amit Jaiswal does a walkthrough of the importance of storytelling skills in Product Management: the audiences and the method.

There is right and wrong ways to roll out your OKRs. In this talk Sten covers some basics around setting the right objectives, right key results and what flows from that.

This section of a longer fireside covers:
- baggage BAs bring if they become product managers
- triads, tribes and durable teams
- is the structure a scaleup from how a startup should organize its team?
- why roadmaps suck and OKRs are a better organising principle
- what is a Product Council and how it maps to company strategy