Tell me about a time you had to win over a group that didn't report to you with your vision.

When we say winning other groups via vision, it basically means convincing them to commit to your objectives of the porduct. I would do this convincing by sharing data-driven insights on why my proposal is the right thing to do at this point of time.

 

Using STAR approach

 

Situation: When i was a PM for a fintech company, after lot of user research I came to a proposal of providing new payment option of itegrating a local payment service which is popular to this specific region of our target audience.

 

Task: So, my task is now basically to work with engineering, UX, sales teams to create a solution after alignning with these folks

 

Action: There were quite a few pushbacks from engineering saying that this particular payment service will take a lot of time as its different from existing architecture and they were hesitant to move ahead due to scalabiluty issues

What i have doen is met with Architects, Engineering managers individually and learnt all the conerns and asked how they think our competitors might've solved this.

Later after gathering all inputs from them, I have done cost benefit analysis wrt effort and impact and the outcome was that this feature although needs effort, it still comes out as winner in end.

I used this data to convince engineering teams and how it helps organisation goals.

 

Outcome:
Drafted the requirements via MVP approach
Defined success criteria for feature

 

finally

Product goals and organisation goals were achieved