Balance: the secret recipe to managing empowered product teams
Modern technology organizations are rapidly innovating, solving real problems for customers, and delivering clear business outcomes through empowered product teams. Instead of micromanaging through command and control, leaders are providing vision and context to cross-functional teams that are driving product discovery and delivery. Well, in theory. Unfortunately, there’s been too much “hiring great people and getting out of their way,” leaving ill-equipped teams—often thrashing, guessing, or paralyzed by fear—struggling to deliver results. Empowered teams do not need less management, they need better management.
In this talk, I’ll reveal the secret recipe for successfully balancing leadership and management and dive deep into real stories about how this is done. True leaders provide the vision, context, and guardrails, while simultaneously collaborating, coaching, getting into the details, and holding teams accountable for quality experiences and outcomes.