How to Get Your Development Team to Love You
Effective, experienced product managers and product owners are crucial to make software development hum.
But effective software development - and thus effective product management - requires a symbiosis - a tight partnership of product management with product creators: the developers and testers and designers and sometimes more who craft our products.
Understanding what motivates programmers and programming teams is critical to engage and motivate teams to delight customers - and to avoid, at all cost, distracting and disheartening them.
Ron Lichty has been both a manager of product managers and a CTO, he’s been both a VP of development and a VP of product. As a development leader, he regards his product management counterparts as key partners.
Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - to ensure that together you delight customers!
Points to take away:
▪ Delighting customers is the metric to which we should manage
▪ Delighting customers relies on tight collaboration between product managers, product owners, and developers
▪ Product managers and development leaders are uniquely positioned to, together, motivate product teams
▪ Product managers and product owners are uniquely positioned to connect the dots
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