Dealing with a self-managed product team - follow up story

Lucky product managers working with self-sufficient teams

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This week’s backstory is about product management for self-sufficient product teams:

Handling a Self-Managed Product Team

What Prompted this Article?

My product team is very nice but they don’t want a product manager. They prefer to handle all the product work themselves. They see no need for a roadmap - They’d rather respond to each customer request as it comes.

I wrote this article to describe what my self-managed product team appreciates from product managers. Hint - it isn’t much!

Here are the strategies in the article:

I wrote several ideas in the article to show value to the product team. These are the items valued by my product team:

1. incremental investment for new hires via a business case

2. generating a product overview for sales to use with potential customers

3. market and competitive update emails

Yes, the list is short!

My product team is very self-sufficient!

What Happened After this Article?

This is where this story gets interesting.