TEI 089: Intelligent disobedience for product managers-with Bob McGannon

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you episode 089 of...

The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD.

The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers.

About the Episode: Are there times that product managers need to be disobedient – not do what they were asked to do? To explore the topic I spoke with Bob McGannon who has great experience with this through the lens of project management. As the purpose of a project is to develop a product or service, product managers and innovators have much they can learn from the field of project management.

Bob is vice-president of Mindavation, a company that focuses on helping businesses increase their capabilities in portfolio, program, and project management. Bob has set up project management programs on three continents. He has 25 years of IT, project management, and project analysis experience, 18 of those years with IBM.

In the discussion you’ll learn:

1. the value of project management,
2. three key project management skills product managers must have,
3. what intelligent disobedience is, and
4. how product managers can exercise intelligent disobedience.