Product Craftsmanship: The People Part of PMing - Women In Product Conference 2020

Wednesday, October 21 | Refine Your Toolkit Stage

0:00 Explore the most difficult part of product management - influencing people. Hosted by Farah Abdallah Akoum, Chapter Lead, Women In Product Seattle.

1:27 Strategies for Managing Difficult Stakeholders with Lilla Cosgrove · Co-founder & Chief Information Officer, Candid
Everyone has them - those stakeholders who ask "can't we just," get heated in prioritization, or try to undermine the process. We'll review a few very tactical strategies to disarm difficult stakeholders, and where possible, to capture the important insights from them without causing thrash on your engineering team.

20:16 Lessons from My Daughter with Iravati Hingne · Head of Product, Yahoo Small Business, Verizon
Iravati is the Head of Product at Yahoo Small Business, a business unit within Verizon. She is responsible for driving the product strategy and execution of digital solutions for small businesses. She and her team of product managers and designers work on products that have generated over $70B in transactions. Iravati walks us through her personal story of hard-hitting life lessons that she learned when raising her daughter and how that helped her become a better product leader.

30:02 How to Do More Deep Work and Become a Better PM with Rupi Sureshkumar · Product Manager, Facebook
Doing deep, focused work is a rare skill set these days and is not encouraged by our ‘busy’ days filled with meetings. This is especially true when working from home, which poses new distractions.
This talk will give you tactics for how to incorporate more Deep Work into your schedule, so you can find the time to write the strategy that you have been meaning to write now for… months! Set yourself apart and bring yourself the job satisfaction you've been missing with these tips and tricks!