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Culture Vision Workshop

Align your product team around the culture you’re trying to build

Introduction

The first step towards a stronger product culture is defining what that culture looks like for your organization. 

In this workshop, we take that first step. In partnership with the product development leadership from your company, we will create a definition of what you want great product management to look like in the next few years. Rather than basing it off of some over-idealized narrative from books, we’ll ground it in the realities and idiosyncrasies of your company. 

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have a  definition of what great product management needs to look like for your organization.

It can provide you the content needed to draft a product culture blueprint. 

This workshop, facilitated by Jenny Wanger, is designed to take you through the first step of the product operations strategy stack. 

In under two hours, you’ll be able to create a new communication document that can help get your whole team on the same page about where you need to take your product organization. 

Reach out to Jenny if you believe in the power of great product culture and the transformational effect it can have on your business.

View a sample product culture blueprint

Workshop Overview

Objectives

  • Define what great product management looks like in your organization
  • Set a target for how the product team interfaces with other key partners across the company
  • Get product leadership aligned around this vision

Benefits

  • Find immediate opportunities for investment in how your team works today
  • Develop a deliverable that can be used to communicate your vision across the company
  • Make progress towards creating the product culture that’s going to let your organization thrive

This workshop is designed for the head of product (CPO, CEO, or VPP) and their direct reports. It can be done with up to 10 people, but is best with a group of 5-6. Depending on your relationship with peers across engineering and design, it may make sense to include representatives from those organizations too.

A sample of the whiteboard from a recent workshop.

Testimonials

“Jenny is a very good listener, very good at facilitating feedback and analyzing processes. That was the exact kind of skillset that we needed. She was able to distill patterns and trends to define a new path forward organizationally and operationally for us.”
Thomas Reilly
CPO | CompTIA
“[Jenny's workshop] helped me as a product leader to understand where the team's priorities and values are closely aligned, and where they are far apart. Diving in deeper with Jenny's guidance, it became clear that while some areas of misalignment could be attributed to simple communication issues, others highlighted meaningful disagreements in the way we approach product culture within the organization. The opportunities we uncovered for team and product growth through this discovery process will be key to our success moving forward together.”
Laura Adiletta
Product | Willcotech
"I wish we had done this ~2 years ago as it can help create foundational alignment on "what is product management?". Those founding principles could then help inform how we work, not just within product, but across the org."
Workshop Attendee

About Jenny Wanger

Jenny is an entrepreneur and product management coach, helping product leaders change their ways of working. Some past clients include the Linux Foundation, Steelcase, Cisco, and GE.

She brings over a decade of product management experience, having worked at and consulted for venture-backed startups, large enterprises, and nonprofits. She co-founded the pandemic-tech focused TCN Coalition and merged it with LF Public Health, as well as led the consumer product team at SpotHero, a top-ranking app that relieves the stress of finding a parking spot. Previous to that, she ran the developer experience team at Arity, a startup founded by Allstate.

When offline, Jenny is usually up in the mountains outside of her home in Colorado hiking and skiing with her family. She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from MIT.

Schedule Your Workshop

Reach out to Jenny directly at jenny@jennywanger.com to schedule a workshop.

ABC Co Product Culture Blueprint