How do you get motivated as a virtual product manager?

Product design typically happens in a room with white boards, markers and many sticky notes

You get to collaborate with your team and physically shift ideas from one column to another

You stand in front of the group and present your product strategy

And you can assess your team’s reactions to the product roadmap by reading the vibe in the room

People would schedule a business trip to attend the planning sessions in person

Attending virtually was an anomaly

Then 2020 showed up and everything went out of the window

This critical collaboration now has to take place in a virtual forum

Where moving virtual sticky notes is the new normal

And you can’t easily tell if your team is on the same page

Because everyone is mostly on mute!

But innovation must go on, even virtually

What things are you introducing into your collaboration sessions to get things done?