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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

The second approach fails to leverage the knowledge and expertise of the stakeholders. What’s more, it makes it unlikely that the stakeholders will fully support the product decisions and that they will follow them through. Involve people in product decisions but don’t make the mistake of trying to please them.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

The following list shares sample rules, which are based on my book How to Lead in Product Management : Always have cameras turned on in online meetings and mute yourself if you don’t speak. Many product management meetings I have attended were working meetings, or workshops, where product decisions were taken.

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Business analysis tips for effective Product ownership

Analysts Corner

In the 4-Quadrants of Product Ownership , Business Analysis stands together with Product Management , Project Management , and Leadership. Mainly, product management or ownership should use business analysis within the following points: 1. This is a big one, so we can also cut it into sub-topics.

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Succeed As a Business Analyst

Analysts Corner

Rupa has written many research articles on quality management, Six Sigma, information management, software engineering, environmental management, compliance, simulation, and modelling. The business analyst is a change agent.

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. Additionally, the stakeholders must be willing to act as team players, no matter how senior they might be. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one.

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