Luke Patterson

After speaking with so many Product Managers who felt overwhelmed stepping into new roles without clear onboarding, I created the PM Role Clarity Canvas to address common challenges like role ambiguity, misaligned priorities, and scattered focus. This free tool is designed to clarify your responsibilities, set mutual expectations, and streamline collaboration, helping you and your team avoid confusion from day one. If you’re ready for better alignment and fewer headaches, download the canvas and bring some clarity to your work! Link to download is below in the comments. 👇

As a Product Manager… One of your most important relationships will be the one you share with your UX team… We as product managers often fall into the trap of viewing product solely through our own perspective… UX allows us (if not forces us) to view product through the lens of the user… UX toolkits and ceremonies provide us with an efficient and effective means to ensure we are meeting our users’ needs by providing us with critical user informed feedback loops that will ultimately serve to make our products more ‘correct’ and successful… #ProductManagement #FeedbackLoop #UserExperience

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I’ve always found cognitive biases fascinating. Understanding them can unlock the gap between the real world and our perceptions of it. How often have you been swayed by a "smart" person pushing an idea, only to realize their reasoning was driven by cognitive biases? Teresa Torres sheds light on two key biases: confirmation bias and escalation of commitment, both of which are crucial for self-evaluation. In product teams, decisions often come from senior leaders, and one bias to watch out for is the Dunning-Kruger effect. This happens when someone with limited knowledge overestimates their expertise. If a senior leader insists their decision is best but it stems from overestimating their own understanding, it’s important to navigate the situation carefully. The higher their position in the org chart, the greater the negative impact of a misguided decision. First, stay professional (they are your boss, after all). Second, use data to demonstrate how their assumptions might not align with the current problem or challenge. #ProductManagement #CognitiveBias #Leadership #DataDriven

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Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: The Path to Product Leadership 🚀 It’s time to rise above and take your product management career to new heights! 🌟 In this video, [Speaker's Name] shares actionable insights on how to break through barriers and step into true product leadership. If you're ready to go from managing products to leading innovation, this is the conversation you don’t want to miss. The next level is waiting—are you prepared to break through? 💥 Siddhartha Saladi, MBA, MS #ProductManagement #Leadership #CareerGrowth #NextLevelPM #BambooCeiling

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What is the cost of not training your PM team? This week we asked our community how they up-level their skills, and the results show that many feel unsupported by their employees when it comes to training. #productmanagement #professionalgrowth #productcareers

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It’s just easier to deflect and let “sh*t roll down hill”. John Cutler is right. More engaged IT team members aren’t enough to overcome systemic #culture and leadership issues. “Someone hired those PMs. Someone funded those companies. Someone set expectations for those PMs. A leader benefitted (or didn't from their work). Someone had the job to mentor those PMs, and share business context and the strategy (assuming one even existed).” #itleadership #projectleadership #projectmanagement #productleadership #productmanagement.

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Somewhere I have a post that I started with Don Bircher about how to say no. This article does a good job articulating just that as well as the importance of doing it. #productmanagement https://lnkd.in/e2U_t3pm

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Product Rockstars in tech....It's not about strategy. It's not about frameworks. To play big...it's about the soft skills. Yep....your EQ is critical to level up and lead. You need to master the human side of work.  Treating people with respect Understanding how to communicate Executive presence Managing politics (yep...,I said it) Treating people as human beings To level up in the world of tech....it's about the human game. #productmanagement #techleaders #womenintech Are you ready to level up into leadership? Are you ready to learn how to play the human game? Respond with 'yes' and I'll send you my E-Book on The Next Generation of Leadership in Product

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New Episode📢 Kevin Gentry chats with Phil Hornby, a product coach and leader. Listen now to hear about his journey, details about his upcoming book, and all things product!🎧 #productmanager #productmanagement #product #productcoffee #businesspodcast

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The most common question I ask my product team members: "What trade-off is this forcing you to make on the roadmap?" When something new gets scheduled, there is always a trade-off. There's no such thing as "squeezing something in." And it is the product person's job to decide and communicate the trade-off we are making, and - just as importantly - ensure that all stakeholders are aware of it.

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Check yourself before you wreck a product manager’s career. Is a PM on your team struggling? Before writing them off, take a look at systemic issues. This isn’t just about fairness; it is essential to ensure you aren’t going to repeat the same problem with your next hire. Some organizational issues to watch out for include: * Is the PM role clearly defined and understood in your org? * Does the PM have the resources they need to execute effectively? * Has the PM received enough support as they ramped up? * Does your org communicate effectively across departments? * Do you have clear product-market fit, or are you still searching? And some tough questions to ask yourself: * Have you put in the time to establish a relationship with the PM? * Have you made it safe to come to you with problems and questions? * Were you clear about what it takes to succeed on your team? * Have you provided the air cover they need to make tough calls? If you answered 'no' to many of these questions, consider whether the issues you observe in a PM’s performance may actually be symptoms of more fundamental organizational problems. (Check back in the comments soon for a longer article on this topic.)

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🔥Hot Take for PMs: Please don't hand me a solution to a problem. Instead, focus on detailing the problem and help me understand the why. We will ideate and find a solution together. Next week, in our first episode of ⚫️Bounce, Claire and I continue to unpack the PD + PM working relationship. Buckle up. Subscribe today - links in comments 👇

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Alignment isn’t always easy in product development, but these PM professionals have found the secrets to success. See what they had to say in our new article, and check out their companies’ open roles on Built In! #Hiring #NowHiring

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So here in the UK it is election time. What if our new PM was a Product Manager? I have been exploring how to manage the most complex product organisations like a country or a big company. I would love to hear your thoughts. #Election #Elected #ProductManagement #PM

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"Product Owner" is not a title!!! Hiring managers and recruiters, please stop using this term as a title. It's just a role in Agile. If you're frustrated with what has happened to the product management profession in recent years and you're in Southern California, please join me for "Reclaiming Product Management - Moving Beyond the Feature Factory" with John Mansour, July 25 in Tustin. If you're not in SoCal, visit my LinkedIn profile to check out my article on The Difference Between Product Manager and Product Owner. And, if you think "Product Owner" should be a title, leave a comment or show up next Thursday night. Let's get a discussion going! #productmanagement https://lnkd.in/gAmR-67q

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