Mindset – Being Empowered To Manage Your Stakeholders With Papa Akuffo
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Rosemary King welcomes Papa Akuffo to Mindset. Papa is currently Product Management Lead at Ideo. He previously held senior product roles at Pivotal Labs.
In this episode, Papa and Rosemary discuss stakeholders, the importance of qualitative, human data, and draw from their own experiences and expertise to answer questions from the Mind the Product community.
“An opinion fight with a HiPPO is a fight you're always going to lose!”
– Rosemary King
Show Notes
12:41 | My biggest product problem is stakeholder management. Do you have any advice on dealing with this?
23:04 | How do we get executive buy-in when an idea comes up that is not directly related to the current goals direction?
32:58 | How to get stakeholders to give problems not solutions?
42:27 | Product management Is being excluded from my company’s product strategy. How shall I deal with this?
Resources
Intro
Question 1
- Communication & Alignment Workshop
- The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley
- Miro
- Product Management Foundations Workshop
Question 4
About Mindset
Mindset is a Mind the Product series featuring expert product thinkers. Speaking with Rosemary King, they give helpful answers to product practice questions collected from our training workshop attendees and the greater Mind the Product community. Discover more episodes!
About the author
Rosemary King
Rosemary is an experienced product manager who has specialized in software development, agile enablement and lean methodologies for the past seven years. She has worked across diverse domains including government, finance, retail and enterprise. After starting her tech career in the New York City start-up scene, she moved into consulting and has spent time with ThoughtWorks and Pivotal Labs London. She has done freelance consulting and training with incubator programs like start-up bootcamp, done UX research on four continents and likes cold water surfing.
