How to Manage Misaligned Stakeholders by Rich Mironov
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Prioritization is hard, and we HOPE that a clear corporate strategy plus well-considered OKRs will get our internal stakeholders to agree on what’s most important: unambiguous #1 and #2 and #3 priorities. That our spreadsheets and analysis will sell everyone on our plan. But that rarely happens: Sales wants us to put 100% of our development effort against shiny new features (except when every big deal includes a commitment for some tiny off-off item); Support/Customer Success want 100% against bug fixes and workflow improvements and productivity tools; Engineering lobbies for better architecture and scalability and more refactoring; Marketing wants us to document more use cases in more industries so that we can widen the funnel. We may wait for each department to “see the light” and give up its specific asks in favor of the greater good, but that can be a very long wait.
How do we understand this behavior, appreciate their effort (rather than just being frustrated), and find strategic tools that let us build out a single plan for our products and teams?
Come hear Rich's advice on how to manage misaligned stakeholders.
Rich's talk will be followed by a fireside chat with Lean Product host Dan Olsen and then audience Q&A.
Our sponsor Productboard is raffling off up to 50 ebook copies of Rich's book The Art of Product Management: you can opt in for the raffle in the Eventbrite registration form.
Note: Eventbrite registrants will receive an invitation link via email the morning of the webinar.
ABOUT RICH MIRONOV
Rich Mironov is a 35-year product management veteran, including six startups. He is a smokejumper product executive – parachuting into software companies to run product teams on an interim basis – when he's not coaching product leaders or helping design product organizations. He founded Product Camp, has been blogging about software product management since 2002 and his The Art of Product Management was one of the first books on the subject.
You can find Rich on Twitter at @RichMironov and at www.mironov.com.
RAFFLE PRIZES
In case you aren't one of the lucky initial ebook raffle winners, we will also raffle off several ebook copies ofThe Art of Product Management at the end of our event, courtesy of our sponsor Productboard.
SCHEDULE
5:25 pm: Zoom webinar opens
5:30 pm: Intro
5:35 pm: Rich's talk
6:30 pm: Rich's fireside chat with Dan Olsen
6:45 pm: Audience Q&A
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Tickets are non-refundable.
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