I recently got asked what an engineer could do to understand our users’ problems and the domain they’re operating in better. The answer to my “They can join me visiting and talking to them from time to time” was “Well, you don’t want the engineers to waste their time with the users” and I still can’t believe this. No second spent with users is wasted. No documentation in the world will ever replace or even get close to a real conversation. The PM is not the proxy between the engineers and the users. Just no. #productmanagent #ProductMgmt

This is the kind of day I'm having.

[Me to a mate at work]: Lol did you post then delete a chatgpt haiku about psychosocial harm in the workplace regulations to our all-company chat?

#Regulations #chatgpt #psychology #psychosocialhazards #productmanagent #productmgmt #tech #technology #techlife

Theme song for my stakeholder meetings today 😉😉

https://open.spotify.com/track/5CUeXXccFIxZqpTzYtmORk?si=7A1XEQbYRNiyxtr6lZwVIQ

Na they're alright.

#tech #technology #stakeholders #product #productmanagent #ProductMgmt
#dailytune #songoftheday #dailysong #tuneoftheday

Another week, another #concrete plant. Reason nr. 1345 why talking to users is great: seeing them doing strange things in the product because if this one bug they never reported as they thought it would be a feature. #productmanagent

Chats over the long weekend with good friends reminded me to try not to slip back into classic #impostersyndrome thinking. Don't sell yourself short, learnings are equally if not more valuable than other outcomes, and women tend to suffer more of this than men do - not always of course, but certainly a big chunk.
Everyone deserves a personal hype team - I needed mine this weekend!

#icandothis #hypeteam #personalcheerleaders #womenintech #product #ProductMgmt #productmanagent #tech #technology

Hey there product people of Mastodon. What are your hot tips for helping a time-selling business (aka consultancy) transition to a product-selling business? Assume the tech team is solid and funding is secured... this question is more about the wetware of the people involved.
#product #technology #productmanager #ProductMgmt #productmanagent #wetware #psychology #smallbusines #organisations

Having one of these days:
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. -Greg McKeown

#worklife #product #productmanagent #ProductMgmt #tech #technology #gregmckeown

Product has a language problem. And we need to fix it. By Saeed Khan

#productmanagent

https://swkhan.medium.com/product-has-a-language-problem-and-we-need-to-fix-it-d9f3052f5e94

Sometimes people forget how freaking big the world outside #twitter is .
Take for eg MSN news , which I am sure many consider a spam site

It still has 550M monthly readers ...

Ofcourse not an exact comparison, but Twitter has about 200ishM mDAU

It's a sustainable business , and I assume profitable.

#microsoft #productmanagent

I get approached quite often for questions around #productmanagent and quite frankly I Love to teach and share( my first part time job was computer science teacher)

We didn't have much to follow when we started, and stumbled our way...i am an accidental #productmanager

I hope the new ones don't make the same mistake.. rather they make new ones..

So if you want to talk about #ProductMgmt you can hit me up on substack chat.

https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/81f65098-0270-46f0-85e4-bc7e25a574b9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

#productmanager #tech #mastindia

From tarot card readers who were accurate, to homeopathic doctor, to that one wierd thing that toda totally worked... Everyone is taking for the #fallacy on anecdotal #evidence
#gambling #superstition #data #analytics #tech #productmanagent #pseudoscience
https://madhurchadha.com/2018/01/10/fallacy-of-anecdotal-evidence/

Working on a shift to get the #uxdesign and #productmanagent teams working to outcomes. It feels trickier than I thought it should, but we're getting there.

I've been running some #OKR explainer workshops which people enjoy, but shifting their actual work behaviours is tricky (which has no small amount of irony).

@teppie @IamKathrynGrace @ianames @mattedgar … in the context of #productmanagent / #servicedesign the phrase is more “Oh, we already work that way! Job done”

I wrote up a piece about the Weekly wind down session I hold with my team, as some people found the idea interesting earlier in the week.

The idea is to create a psychologically safe place to vent the week away and hopefully go into the weekend without baggage.

My team really like the session, so it works for us 😃
https://link.medium.com/JwThFqq01ub

#ux #uxdesign #productmanagent #teammamagement