We work better together: How language shapes collaboration in product teams
MIHAELA DRAGHICI
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PRODUCT MANAGER at Volkswagen Digital Solutions
Product teams can have brilliant strategy, strong data, and customer insight, yet still sometimes struggle to deliver. The hidden bottleneck isn’t always process or tools: it’s how teams talk about product work. Language shapes decisions, creates alignment (or friction), and ultimately influences execution. Drawing from the Language Mapping Blueprint, a repeatable framework to analyse, map, and shift organisational language. I bring real-life examples and actionable, current, and directly applicable insights to Product Managers (and those they collaborate with), not just high-level inspiration. The talk answers the question every PM faces: how do we actually align teams when we already have frameworks, ceremonies, and goals? By focusing on language. It bridges strategy and day-to-day execution in a way that’s immediately useful.
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