🎉 Big News: The Launch of STRONG Product Communities is Here! 🎉

Are you leading or working within a product organization and have the aspiration to cultivate professional growth among PMs? My new book, "STRONG Product Communities," is your tiny but mighty guide for this mission.

It's filled with actionable tips, case studies, and first-hand accounts from industry leaders.

🛒 BUY THE BOOK on Amazon: https://strongpp.link/getSPC

or learn more about it here: https://www.strongproductpeople.com/strong-product-communities

More and more talk recordings from our Product at Heart Conference are coming out. If you want to watch some of them make sure you check our blog every once in a while!

https://productatheart.com/blog

Quiet Stories 148: #UX Team Of One, The Power Of #CrossDisciplinary Learning, Exploring Alternative Strategies, Citizen #Usability Testers, & more!

https://mailchi.mp/69e8b5a3edab/quiet-stories-148

Visit Paris in May, they said. It's the perfect time to visit, they said. So I follow everyone's advice and will be hanging out with hundreds of product friends LaProductConf - who's joining?

https://www.laproductconf.com/paris/speakers

Currently working on a talk and would like to hear your opinion if you are a head of product, product team lead, product director, CPO, or in similar roles. https://strongpp.link/pollleads

If you are a fan of User Story Mapping (like I am :-)) and your company runs on OKRs this is a must-read: https://jeffgothelf.com/blog/okr-and-user-story-mapping/

@apolaine

A new ep of my Power of Ten podcast is out with my guest, the wonderful Abby Covert.

Sometimes I meet people and think, "I wish I could think like them" and Abby is one of them.

In this episode she discusses her latest book, "Stuck? Diagrams Help a field guide for the trek from diagram novice to diagram nerd."

https://www.polaine.com/power-of-ten/abby-covert-stuck-diagrams-help/

#podcast #poweroften #informationarchitecture #ia

Just finished my talk on #Storytelling and #ProductEvangelizing at #INDUSTRY2023!
Don't just convince, inspire :-)

Check out the slides here: https://www.petra-wille.com/storytelling

Looking for a fun and hands-on way to develop your product skills? Come join us in Hamburg, Germany, for Product at Heart, an independent conference I co-organize with Arne Kittler. Learn more: https://productatheart.com/ [6/6]

And if you're really looking to up your product leadership game (for a very reasonable fee), check out my book, STRONG Product People. It's a crash course in how to define good, hire and develop your team, and much more: https://www.strongproductpeople.com/book [5/6]

I've also created several free resources you can download and use with your team, including a coaching questions card deck and the PMwheel to help you define the qualities of a good product manager: https://www.petra-wille.com/resources-1 [4/6]

On my blog, I publish about 4x/month on topics of interest for product leaders like how to improve your communication and storytelling skills, which coaching questions to ask your direct reports, and how to write compelling job ads: https://www.petra-wille.com/blog [3/6]

I also have lots of free resources I've created for product leaders and product people. Want quarterly updates on what's going on in the world of product leadership? You can sign up for my newsletter here: https://strongpp.link/newsletter [2/6]

I've noticed a lot of new followers here lately and wanted to say hi! I'm Petra, a product leadership coach, author, and co-organizer of the Product at Heart conference. I regularly share content about product leadership, communities of practice, and people development. [1/6]

I will be speaking at @producttank Perth in about four weeks, and it will be an in-person event despite me joining virtually. So cool communities are back to IRL meetups! https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Perth/events/291828526/

Pro athletes don't have a match every day. They spend the majority of their time training with their coach, teammates, and other athletes. Yet for product people we rarely spend any time "training." Communities of Practice help us overcome this gap: https://strongpp.link/hnr

"My go-to tomes for this transition have been The Team That Managed Itself by Christina Wodtke and especially Strong Product People by Petra Wille — I can’t recommend these two authorities highly enough."

Always happy to hear that STRONG is making a difference in people's leadership journey! Thanks John Keane for the shout out!

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7028407679286960128/

Learn more about my findings here: https://www.petra-wille.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-surveying-over-100-people-about-product-communities-of-practice

During my product Community of Practice research, I was surprised to learn that a lot of PMs don’t know that communities like ProductTank or other PM meetups exist.

➡ If you’re a product leader, I think it’s a great idea to ask your product organization if they are attending out-of-the-company community events, and if not, help them realize that these outside communities exist!

#community #productleadership