Hey there,
This weekend I had the pleasure to sit together with 2 seasoned tech leaders both having 10+ years of experience in consumer tech companies that most of us know and have used products of. I learned that most tech issues - in their experience - stem from misunderstandings, conflicts, and a lack of communication between different stakeholders, teams, and departments and that they focused most of their energy on overtime on shuttling between different people and teams teasing out relevant context, information and brokering shared understanding between them.
Siloes are the most common reason why tech projects fail, and even in a smaller teams like ours at Bunch misunderstandings and lack of communication can lead to delays on delivery, so I looked into ways on how to keep everyone on the same page:
How to align different people on your team 🧛♀️
👉 How to Gain Alignment From Your Team on the Product Roadmap by Todd Lombardo
Top takeaways: Instead of using group sessions to align everyone, going 1-to-1 and getting input from everyone first proves a more effective strategy, Todd shares how to do this around product roadmap processes
👉 The one product skill that will make you awesome by Matthew Cowsert
Top takeaways: This is a deep dive on how to actually do “shuttle diplomacy”, which behaviors and skills you need to make it work
👉 Alignment on great product teams by Eoin Nolan (Intercom)
Top takeaways: Really good overview of how misalignment and alignment looks like in product dev teams and how to achieve true alignment through a nuanced definition of the different roles on the team and their mandates
News from Bunch
We had the pleasure to host Mathias Meyer (the founder of Travis CI, founder of The Intentional Organization and Tech Leadership Coach and CTO whisperer) on one of our Slack AMAs at Teams at Work.
We have summarized most important take aways here: “How to build high-performing tech teams with Travis CI co-founder, Mathias Meyer” which has been published in Geek Culture. Check out his advice on how to build happy and performant tech teams.
Tips from the Bunch AI Coach
This tip is about how to align your whole team around the same mission is all about making it super clear what the shared mission is, and how to get closer baby step by baby step.
Have a great week and keep it up!
Darja