Impact-First Product Teams (With Matt LeMay)

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How can product teams truly maximise their impact on business-critical goals? Matt LeMay, a seasoned product leader, consultant, and author, shares his experience and insights on transforming product management into a key driver of meaningful business outcomes. With a career that includes guiding teams through acquisitions by Google and Intuit, advising giants like Spotify, and building product teams for startups now valued in the hundreds of millions, Matt offers a wealth of knowledge.

Matt discusses how an "impact-first" approach shifts the traditional role of product management from simply facilitating ideas to actively contributing to significant business success. He highlights the importance of aligning team efforts with the core objectives of the business, ensuring that every action taken is purposeful and drives real results.

Key Takeaways:

• Defining Success: Strategies for aligning product teams with the business’s critical goals to ensure substantial impact.
• Facilitation vs. Leadership: Why effective product management is about empowering teams rather than leading them with a top-down vision.
• Managing Dependencies: Approaches to handling dependencies without isolating them from the team, fostering a more integrated problem-solving process.
• Ethical Considerations: Balancing business outcomes with ethical decision-making in the face of market pressures.

Perfect for product managers, team leaders, and anyone involved in directing a product team's efforts, this episode offers practical guidance on how to lead your team to make a tangible impact on your business.

Links and Resources:

• Connect with Matt LeMay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattlemay/
• Visit Matt’s website for more insights and resources: mattlemay.com
• Matt's books: https://amzn.to/3AXlUiq

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
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Chapter

1. Impact-First Product Teams (With Matt LeMay) (00:00:00)

2. Creating Context for Impact (00:10:13)

3. The Problem with Removing Dependencies (00:24:45)

4. The Hidden Truth About Accountability (00:31:10)

5. Adapting to Change in Product Development (00:40:01)