S2 - Episode #6: Adriana Ellice Flint - VP of Product - Receeve
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About Adriana:
Adriana Ellice-Flint is an accomplished Product leader with a wealth of experience in senior roles. Her career in financial services began as a Product Advisor and she has since risen to become a Vice President of Product. Currently the VP of Product at Receeve, Adriana's expertise in connecting the vision and mission of a company to short-term goals and objectives is essential in achieving success. Her ability to navigate the bigger picture while keeping an eye on the details makes her an invaluable asset to any team.
Synopsis:
In this episode of The Technology Leadership Podcast, Adriana discusses the importance and pillars of Product strategy. It helps connect a company's vision and mission to its short-term goals and objectives, allowing for both the consideration of the bigger picture and the navigation of tactical details. She breaks down the four pillars of strategy: participants, subjects, processes, and dimensions and emphasises the importance of partnerships, which can be commercial or non-commercial.
Key Takeaways:
Learn why gaining technical expertise should be the primary focus for junior-level engineers.
Understand why communicating and establishing relationships with other developers is essential to ease workflow and collaborate in any environment.
Hear more about how even Engineers with average technical skills can grow into Consultants with exceptional communication skills and how effective communication can also translate to faster promotion.
Discover more about why Engineers often get caught in the spiral of negativity because of their typical inherent problem-solving nature and skills required such as debugging.
Get insight into how communication skills enable transparency, which allows for delivery of objectives aligned to the company’s vision.
Listen to advice on growing as a software professional - there is no roadmap/hierarchy.
Discuss why the limited in-person meetings today, make the online working atmosphere demanding and how practical communication skills are needed more than ever.
Learn the importance of building muscle memory for your technical skills - the 80/20 rule applies well in software engineering.
Get the importance of purposeful evaluation of the expectations of your new role when deciding to switch from your current company.
Episode Outline:
[00:15] Meet Adriana Ellice-Flint
[00:09] Why is Product strategy important?
[02:43] Goals: operational and executional levels
[05:19] How Product leaders step in to plan and execute Product strategies
[08:38] How to plan out the next steps of a Product strategy without losing continuity.
[13:49] Macroeconomics and strategy: The biggest shifts and changes in the macroeconomic climate over the past few years
[15:50] Breaking down the four pillars of a Product strategy
[23:59] Frequency of Product strategy planning
[24:39] Allocating time for business leaders to spend thinking about risks, changing market conditions, and competitions
[28:04] Developing a solid Product strategy
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