As product people, we're often agents of change. Too often, we forget that we end up introducing new ways of working to those around us, like our team or our business partners (stakeholders). Be patient and empathetic. Give people time to learn and adapt.

#ProductManagement #ChangeManagement

Starting strong at ProductAtHeart 2024

💚 Courage is a choice! Have the courage to be curious.

#ProductAtHeart24

I am gonna be moving some content over from Threads, so I can delete my account there.

It’s all from the @productatheart.bsky.social Conference 2024 - this is one of my favourite places to learn and connect and see all my product friends. So you should get tickets for the 2025 one!

When finishing a project assignment, it feels nice when people say, we’ll miss you, you’re irreplaceable! If it’s about my personality, that’s so sweet, but if it’s about my knowledge, I didn’t do my job right.

#ProductManagement #Consulting

I am consistently surprised how hard transparency is for product people or managers in general.

I had a conversation with one of my clients, and we came to the conclusion that they wanted to be more transparent but lacked the structure to be more transparent.

Here’s what you can do:

🧹 I try to clean out my saved passwords once a year. Trying to delete unused accounts is surprisingly hard. There are errors or I cannot do it at all, having to contact them, which is a whole new struggle.

Whoever needs to hear this:

Account deletion is part of the user journey!!!

It's not a product manager's job to make every decision—it's to make sure the right decisions get made.

Give your team the clarity and context they need to figure out the way forward for themselves.

Don't become a bottleneck for good ideas.

We’re having team days in-person and so far we have mainly done team building through fun facts and boardgames and pizza (and a retro).

I understand that getting everyone in a room can be expensive but this kind of productivity does so much more for a team!

From the book, “The Creative Act: A Way of Being.” I’ve never approached any project the same way, bc the problem and the people are different. If I force myself into a framework or process, the results are uninspiring.

I was talking with someone about the essential character traits of #ProductPeople - Here are my all-time faves:

💖 Empathy
👂 Active Listening
🔍 Curiosity
🧠 Critical thinking
🤗 Openness

Bonus: 😁 Sense of humour

What are your top 5?

#ProductManagement

Our main job, as PMs, is to gather all the information and make, or help others make the best decisions to end up with a product that customers love and that works for the business.

That’s needs a lot of communication and critical thinking skills.

Nobody said #ProductManagement is easy 😅

Oops, I did it again… 90s music has so many valuable product lessons!

#ProductManagement

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

🎯 When setting goals/objectives and measures of success/key results with teams, I like using "signals." It can be difficult to develop metrics to help you know if you're being successful, especially if that's not your day-to-day.

#ProductManagement #OKRs

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#ProductManagement is a constant negotiation. There are always constraints, you can never have everything, so you need to negotiate what’s possible and make trade-off decisions along the way.

This can be especially tough in non-product-orgs.

Hey PMs, here’s something I am passionate about: Leave your ego at the door!

I’ve seen too much of it and I won’t get tired of repeating this: Collaborate with your team, value different perspectives and tap into that experience and expertise you could never have on your own.

#ProductManagement

This is still one of my favourite talks. This time, it was presented in a shorter version as a lightning talk at this year's Boye Conference in Denmark.

Essentially, it outlines what we, as product people, can do in our day-to-day to incorporate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

#DEI

Little intro: I am Lisa (Mo) 👋 I like to use a lot of emojis to emphasize my written statements ☝️

👉 Passionate product person #ProductManagement

🎓 Sociology/Economics & Forensic Engineering

🐈‍⬛ Cat mom of two

🕹️🎲 Gamer

🖋️ Handlettering & journaling

🖼️ Looking at old/cool stuff

📚 Reading