Build world class products with me

Katherine Pierce

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About this service

Summary

Moving to Product Management after 10+ years in Project Management and Operations only seemed natural. I was able to leverage my experience with Agile methodologies to build consistent and high producing product teams. You can expect me to foster a fast-paced and highly collaborative partnership while taking risks, learning quickly and having fun.

During our initial consideration conversation, you can expect us to talk about:

Product goals, market need and timeline

Resourcing for work execution

Current meeting cadence

Current tooling and team familiarity

Collaboration and dependency considerations

Process

My approach to a new body of work is always the same. I find this provides a foundation of trust right away and allows space for honest feedback and communication. Here are the four big buckets I use to ensure a collaborative and productive partnership:

Initial Conversations: I like to refer to this as my "Around the World" time. I chat with key folks involved in a project to understand all aspects of current state, must haves, needs, wants, pain points and what is going well.

Compilation + Plan Creation: If there isn't already a plan in place with accountable parties, tasks, dependencies and key milestones identified, that is built in collaboration with key project team members. I find this continues to build trust, partnership and accountability within my peers.

Execution: We communicate our plan and get to work! Throughout the process, there are consistent check ins including (but often dependent on existing team operations): stand ups, longer planning meetings once milestones are hit and leadership sessions.

Review and Release: Once work is completed, it's my job to ensure all requirements are completed, QA'ed and approved. Scope of work is delivery is reviewed with stakeholders and project team. I like to host a release or launch party to celebrate all the work that was completed. We also review all metrics to track for project success.

What's included

End-to-End Product Management
I have 3 years of PM experience which includes building a product organization from the ground up, Product Management of 3 technology squads focused on Customer Service and Operations product development, company wide internal tool development and compliance and regulation support post-acquisition event. For all 3 teams, I lead roadmap management, feature, bug and chore triaging, product design, sprint and cycle management, grooming sessions, standup ceremonies, QA support, team retro sessions and launch/work completion execution.

Skills and tools

Product Manager

Product Strategist