How Do You Focus on Product Management Strategy? Delegate!
Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.
Time to focus on strategy is highly desirable, but product managers face many obstacles to getting that time. The result is an inability to be fully proactive with the product and a disconnect from high-level business strategy discussions. If only there was a way to reduce common attention grabbers and add more time for strategic planning.
You can reach your objective to increase time on strategy if you spend time delegating more of certain activities—while also obtaining reports that serve your strategy deliberations. This may sound overly optimistic when you are challenged with constant routine meetings and interruptions from support projects. So here are a couple of examples of how to identify time-consuming product management activities to delegate.
Continuous Improvements
You know your product will lose relevance if improvement is not continuous, so you naturally want to be monitoring these activities closely. To delegate these activities, then, you need to know that continuous effective improvements across multiple areas are routine. You should be comfortable that groups delivering key areas of improvement exhibit constructive collaboration.
Improvement streams for your product may include technological (automation), business process, and artificial intelligence. Here are examples of tactics to use to determine if it is possible to delegate more of this …
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