The past Thursday I went to the ProductTank Sthlm that took place in SUP46, and it was a really good experience. I found the event in the web of SUP46, and I met mostly with Product Managers of different Start Up from Stockholm.
The event stared with a cocktail where the people could meet each other, and then were expositions of some Product Managers (PM), who gave their view of how is to work like a PM.
One thing that I like a lot is that the most of the expositors said that the motivation of their job is in that a good work could improve the service (and why not, the life) of thousands of people. For example, Marcus Kohlberg, PM from Spotify, said that he thinks that with his job, he was helping to bring music to the world.
Another thing that was mentioned a lot of times was the importance of have a vision of how you dream that your service or product would be in the future. Siam Choudhury, PM in ACast, told us that the most important thing is to have a roadmap tied to the company goal, and to be focus on that, so a big challenge is to have a clear goal, that everybody knows and share them.
In the same direction, Stina Redemo from Benify, putted a lot of attention in her key learning “get everybody involved”, that mean the importance of involve to the hole team in all discussions from the beginning, everyone is important to reach the goal that the team has.
A final learning that I would like to mention, is that when you are leading a project you have to be versatile, know how to relation with different kind of people and professions, and make that all these different persons work for the team goal. Is not too important know the how, in that position the important thing is to what is the goal and why.
Saludos!
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