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title: 'Join the Panel: How to Optimize Your Product Team During and Post COVID-19'
teaser: 'Join us for an upcoming expert panel discussion on how to optimize your product
  teams during and post COVID-19.

  '
tags: workshops
author: Emily Bahna
published_on: 2020-07-27
---

COVID-19 is putting a big dent in growth projections for software companies.
With more pressure on product leadership to support the growth and retention of
customers, product teams can feel unorganized or misaligned due to changing
priorities, which can have long term impacts on the product and people.

With these issues and the shift to 100% remote culture, how can product
leadership encourage their teams to stay productive, connected, and motivated?

[Join us on Thursday, July 30th](https://thoughtbot.com/events/product-team-panel)
as we discuss these challenges with an all star panel to learn about their
insights and advice for optimizing product teams during and post COVID-19.

![<img alt="Image of Panelists"](https://images.thoughtbot.com/blog-vellum-image-uploads/3dyZczcqSua2AscupmP6_RDU_panelist.png)

Our expert panelists will share strategies, tools, and resources to optimize
your team during and post COVID-19. They’ll also be discussing:

- Pivoting a product team around a new set of priorities
- Adjusting to a new work environment (remote, asynchronous, outcome-focused)
- Reevaluating how you measure and assess customer value
- Reevaluating how you measure productivity (ie. product team size, process,
  tech stack, and communication methods)
- Managing to meet delivery dates without burning your team out

Panelists include:

- Ursula Meade, Founder and CEO, InHerSight
- Hersh Tapadia, Co-founder and CEO, Allstacks
- Jeanette O’Brien, Software Engineer, Red Hat
- Patty Krizowsky, Engineering Manager, GrowPath

[Register today](https://thoughtbot.com/events/product-team-panel) to reserve
your spot. Hope you see you there and thank you to our all star panelists!