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Essential product management skills
How to work effectively with cross-functional teams
How to identify and prioritize customer needs
Exercise: Team Inquiry
Remind your team that this isn’t about which features you deliver or what services you build, but something much more on a human level — how will their lives have changed? What will they be able to do that maybe they can’t do now?
- If we achieve the above, what will our customers / users be feeling?
This question is to get people thinking about the emotions that your customers or users will be feeling 12 months from now, if you’re successful in achieving the above. Will they be happy, stress-free or satisfied? Try to get your team to put themselves in your customers’ or users’ mindset.
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Formulate your team vision statement
Hopefully some themes have emerged from answering the questions in the last step and you should be able to have a time-boxed discussion about how to formulate your team vision statement:
You should end up with something that looks like this:
By <month, year>, our <custome...
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Get your team in the right mind-frame
Depending on the size of your business, you may already have a company vision and a relevant high level OKR or strategic goal that relates to your team. It’s worth spending 5 minutes reviewing these, if you have them. If you don’t then you can skip to the next step.
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How to facilitate a team vision workshop
Defining a vision gives your team something to aim for in the longer term — something beyond quarterly goals and outcomes. Here’s how to create one with your team:
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What is a team vision?
A team vision is a longer-term aim that looks out around 12 months ahead. It’s different from a company vision as it’s something a little more specific than a lofty 5–10 year goal. It should be something that can be achieved in around a year and details what you are going to achieve and for whom...
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Why set a team vision?
Having a longer term view will help to give your team focus and ensure that you can formulate a strategy and themes to work on that will result in meaningful products being delivered to your customers and / or users. It also means that you don’t have to completely rethink what you’re working on e...
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Ask questions to form the basis for your team vision
Write answers, one per Post-It and then discuss and group similar ideas together.
- By working with us, our partners / customers will improve…?
- By choosing our product, our users will have the ability to…?
This is all about getting your team to think about the impact ...
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Team vision workshop Explain the ‘What’, ‘Why’ and 'How'
In every workshop you will find participants who will be hesitant to take part unless they are told why they are there, what you will be doing and what the end result will be (and rightly so!). With this in mind, it’s beneficial to start any workshop with the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ to save time ...
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