Product people are often the main liaison with stakeholders. But product delivery is a shared responsibility among the full product team — product management, design, and engineering (at least).
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For example, if your team is about to miss a coding deadline, you and the engineering lead can present to stakeholders what went wrong and how you will fix it.
Long term, taking responsibility will give stakeholders a sense of your trustworthiness, a key aspect of alignment. See Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders, Chapter 4, Trust.
Beyond Sticky Notes
Product Culture coach Phil Hornby will be speaking March 27 at ProductTank Birmingham, UK. Topic: Rebuilding Product Team Meetings: Facilitation Beyond Just Sticky Notes.
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