PM Roles
Roles towards (teams, not leads)
Devs
QA
PDM
PuMA
Sales
PM needs from (teams, not leads)
Sales
PDM
Devs
QA
PuMa
NOT PM Roles
Others
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Improve products to help improve relationship with customers ✅
PMs
PMs
Scale productivity of PDM team ✅ ✅ ❓
Deliver new integrations : ❌ ✅
Scale productivity ✅
offer new products that open up to new kind of integrations ✅ ✅
Supporting the stakeholders with business cases ❓ ❌ ⚠ ✅
Communicating properly product updates - issues, improvements, future goals ⚠ ✅
Making sure that PDMs/Sales are aligned when it comes to the product roadmap ✅ ✅ ✅
scale productivity / reduce manual work ✅ ✅ ✅
Setting the right expectations when it comes to deadlines, ETAs ✅ ✅ ✅
answers: why and what are we building ✅ ✅
build a sense of ownership ✅ ✅
answers: why and what are we building ✅ ✅
build a sense of ownership ✅
Properly describing product requirements ✅ ✅
Collecting stakeholder requirements ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Presenting the company/product goals to the developers ✅ ✅
Prioritize Bugs and Features ✅ ✅ ✅
Making sure that everyone is on the same page ⚠ ✅
allow them to know and understand our products ✅ ❓
Scale productivity of sales team on operational tasks (CRM) ✅ ✅
Onboard and educate on the products OG owns : ✅ ✅ ✅
Maintaining the backlog (incl. describing/creating tickets, prioritizing, etc) ✅ ✅
inform on what is possible and what is not from tech perspective
❓ ✅
help improving the processes with daily tasks ❓ ⚠
communicate her/his vision and make sure it's part of the whole product vision ✅ ❌ ✅
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Giving strategic direction ✅ ✅
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agree ✅
question ❓
disagree completely ❌
we need to talk ⚠
cannot decide on our own without having "aligned" eta's with tech teams
agreement on how do we do estimate of eta/time-of-delivery for the sake of project/product planning -->
after we align/decide with Devs ==> communicate with Sales
PM responsibility to support the Sales people to create business case? how and why?
fetch data?
Sales? maybe
marketing? no, they have access
what if they have ideas and don't know how to formulate them?
What are we trying to achieve when we ask for business cases?
avoid: "I need this orange button in the middle of the page, because it will save our life" ==> ask why?
We are trying to figure out how big/urgent/important is the problem we want to solve ✅
we test Product Canvas --> Farid/Irma/Gery
we test Business Case templates --> Abdo/Ludo