Does your product team find the time to improve as a community of practice? Or does your team schedule every available moment for status meetings? Do you fail to create feedback loops that grow an individual's capabilities? When a team does eventually prioritize learning, does it end up being boring and ineffective? This is because most programs (and talks about this) are focused on ‘up-leveling’ through training rather than learning from each other. The key to product team growth is to find more ways to learn together and to transfer experience faster. It gets especially tricky when there are different needs for improving procedural, nuanced, interpersonal, or intangible skills.

Through this talk Chris Butler will show how he has developed programs at small and large organizations to take product people to the next level. This includes giving valuable mentorship to newbies, challenges for those transitioning to seniority, and increasing scope to those that are already tenured.