From Executors to Product Thinkers: How PMs Shape Product Mindset [ukr]
If engineers don’t think like product managers, PMs become the bottleneck.
In many teams, engineers execute tasks while PMs carry strategy, context, and decisions alone. The result? Slow innovation, low ownership, and “feature factory” delivery.
This talk explores we explore how PMs can redesign the system - not just the mindset - to build outcome-driven teams.
You’ll learn:
- • Why feature factories emerge
- • How PM overload happens
- • How to push context and decisions down
- • How to create shared ownership of metrics and impact
- • Real examples of transforming delivery teams into product teams
Ivan Pashko
Preply, Engineering Manager
- Passionate about bringing people, products, and technologies together
- His journey shaped through years of team building, product delivery, and creating strong cultures and practices along the way
- Co-host of the 8020 Engineering Podcast about management and leadership
- Believes in communities — and in unicorns (especially Ukrainian ones 🦄)
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