Guiding a New Product Team Through Uncertainty and Ambiguity
Actionable steps to understand your team’s work maturity and how to guide them through uncertainty and ambiguity.
Two weeks ago, I embarked on a journey to be part of a new product opportunity and to work with a new development team. There’s a lot of excitement when you get to work on something that doesn’t exists and you have the chance to transform that vision into reality. Also, working with new colleagues can be an amazing opportunity for getting new ideas, new energy and creating relationships.
But as great as all of this may sound, it’s not always like this. Specially, if this is the first time that the development team works with a real product, it’ll be very difficult that they visualize the exact same picture that the Product Manager has in mind. This is where the leadership and communication skills of a PM start to shine on!
Identify your team’s work maturity
Stakeholders are not the only ones making things harder. Sometimes, is your own team the one that pulls back every time you want to step ahead. First step is to detect their level of work maturity. This can be done by …
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