Lucie McLean - Context is Key: Unlocking Your Empowered Product Team's Potential (Turing Fest 2022)

Giving product managers autonomy and room to grow is key for their growth - and to keep them in your business. Learning to provide the right context at the right time in the right ways is a superpower which has become even more important in a world of hybrid and remote working. In this talk, Lucie McLean will talk about the different kinds of context, how to gather them and how to use them to create a high agency mindset, build better relationships with your team members and work together to build awesome things.

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Transcript

1. Context 
 is 
 key Lucie McLean
 Product Director, Zalando @luciemclean
3. Zalando image
4. Zalando image
9. Empowerment & Autonomy
10. Value risk Usability risk Feasibility risk Business risk
11. Why & How
12. Big point 1 The written down ‘why’ 01
13. ➔ Company mission ➔ Company long term strategy ➔ Annual operational plan ➔ OKRs ➔ Team charter ➔ Product vision ➔ Product strategy Written context examples
14. Bruno Figueiredo on Unsplash
15. Build a culture of writing down context
16. Big point 1 The undocumented ‘why’ 02
17. @Several Seconds on Flickr Photo by NOAA on Unsplash
18. @Several Seconds on Flickr
19. Default to transparency
20. Ivan Bertolazzi @ Pexels
21. Layer the meta learnings
22. Bake sharing into your rituals
23. Trust & Safety
24. @Several Seconds on Flickr Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash
25. Big point 1 03 How things really get done
26. Photo by Matt Seymour on Unsplash
28. Hear one Know ten
29. “Yeah we could do”
30. “I’ll bare it in mind”
31. “I almost agree”
32. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdstrowes/ Photo by Lensabl on Unsplash
33. Bring people into the room early
34. Big point 1 How not to get things done 04
35. Photo by Renee Fisher on Unsplash
36. Map out the landmines
37. Challenge the urban myths
38. Big point 1 How big the field is 05
39. Sellewellyn @ Flickr
40. Rain Rabbit @ Flickr
41. Show people where the edges aren’t
42. ➔ The written down why ➔ The undocumented why ➔ How things really get done ➔ How not to get things done ➔ How big the field is 5 contexts
43. Do you have all of the context?
44. Where are the edges of your field?
46. Danke!