It probably won’t bring a high ROI to the business, but it will bring a high sense of joy.
There are a few metaphors to describe empathy. Some say Empathy is “when one wears other shoes”, others say Empathy is “to look the world with the other’s lens/glasses”. Empathy is when we truly listen to someone and fully understand what the other is saying. And by “listen” it means not only the words but also emotions, feelings, concerns, and struggles.
As a Product Manager, we are used to using different types of techniques in the prioritization process: we have MoSCoW…
It could be called “Start doing Product Discovery!” as well.
If your company or organization is not yet very familiar with the Product mindset and all the techniques and best practices it enables you, I bet you are used to working based on a Project mindset. You know, the classical approach where you receive a budget to do something, and you need to deliver that something after some amount of time, which is usually constraint by the original budget. So the project starts, you have risks along the way, the scope keeps changing (and so is the timeline), and after…
Ditto Lokajit Tikayatray! It was indeed a great demonstration of Empathy. :) Glad to have you here!
It may be complex, hard, and take time, but it pays off.
In my previous post, I brought my opinion about why we should foster synergy within our product teams. Here I’m going to talk about behaviors that will help you, as a leader, foster synergy. And by “leader”, I don’t mean only a People Manager, but anyone in the product team playing the lead role: the Product Manager, a Technical Lead, a Scrum Master, etc.
However, if you are expecting a framework or a set of rules you can just “do” or “apply”, here is not the right place…
It may be about soccer as well, who knows?
Imagine being a soccer coach capable to hire the top 11 soccer players in the world and bring them together in the same “dream team”. Just imagine you could have the best goalkeeper, the best defenders, midfielders, forwards, etc. In theory, you’d win every championship, wouldn’t you? Now pretend they hate each other and they can’t stand being together in the same room. Too much? A simpler example, then: imagine that they don’t collaborate with each other in the matches or are trying to solve it all by themselves. Or let’s…
And no, it’s not another prioritization technique (it’s not about selfishness also).
I always liked to read things about productivity, time management and prioritization techniques. I used to be a real procrastinator and had to police myself when I realized I wasn’t accomplishing much within my days, so I started to research about these topics. Of course, I am not going to write here about the several different prioritization techniques because they are all from one search away.
The main thing I’d like to focus is that prioritization is not only about defining importance versus urgency, but to find the…
Ricardo Montenegro
Just a Product Manager enjoying talks about Product Management and Productivity | Geek | Working in Tech Industry | LinkedIn: ricardoaam
