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Alvaro Hurtado ۞ Profile picture
@AlvaroLab
Jul 16, 2018 • 3 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Things I do that are not included in my job contract as a Product Manager:
* Config files
* Jokes
* Improving the ambience in the company
* Cooking and Dietary consulting
* Fashion counselling
* Matchmaking
* Love advice

#pm #productmanagement
#prodmgmt #startups #startuplife
To be added to my list of tasks as a PM:
* Communication Therapist

Meaning, I attend meetings that are completely irrelevant for me, only to be sure that 2 other people:
* Understand each other
* Do not argue
* Do not kill each other

Successful so far.
#pm #prodmgmt #startups
Startup Life be like:
* Let's complain about the lack of resources
* Let's be "efficient" by not having meetings
* Let's waste our few resources and work on every feature 3 times because we don't communicate properly

#pm #productmanagement
#prodmgmt #startups #startuplife

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Alvaro Hurtado ۞ Profile picture
Aug 31, 2020
I was asked several times along the time, why do you think you are a better Product Manager than your colleagues?

It's hard to tell. I was told by stakeholders that 'I deliver better features', 'more quality', 'I understand them better'...

#pm #productmanagement

1/6
I thought about it. I always try to deliver the best features I can, I try to think of my users, but... How to teach someone to deliver in the same way I do?

I realised I focus on 3 main characteristics. Everything I delivery must be:
* Simple
* Durable
* Effective

2/6
Simple: aim for the simplest solution. If you need more sophistication, organise the project on phases.

Every phase must be Durable and Effective. In every following phase, you can increase the level of complexity.

The simpler the better.

3/6
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Mar 20, 2020
I started working in a new company 3 weeks ago. I am the first #PM this company has ever had.

As I am the first one, I decide how to do things when it comes to #productmanagement.

First days were crazy. Overwhelming. Everyone in the company had inputs and requests
→
Everyone's requests were different in many ways:
* Channel - email, docs, office, slides...
* Format - based on mocks, based on text, user stories, just ideas...

To get everyone aligned I started using a very simple structure on the tasks I made ready for development
→
I include 4 sections:
* Current status: describe what's happening now
* Goal: describe what we want to achieve with the change
* Job story: not a user story but a job story
* Acceptance Criteria: how this could be tested

After that, I ask my stakeholders to review →
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Feb 24, 2020
I insist:
Travelling should require a license.
I am in a cafe in Ho Chi Mihn, a group of Europeans (can't really tell from where) next to me:

After a few racist and stupid comments about Africa, Vietnam and Tunisia... 2 of them said:
* CocaCola is for for burning calories
* Smoking Orange flavour tabacco has more vitamins
You may think... "Oh, come on! They are joking."

Not really. They were not. They were very serious about it.
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Dec 4, 2019
Mi madre intentó sorprenderme antes de navidad, mandándome un paquete con comida a Berlín. Al parecer, contrató con @Packlink_esp... ¡vaya aventura!
* El paquete no ha llegado
* Y además quieren que paguemos otro envío para devolver el paquete a España

Explico nuestra odisea:
Domingo, 24 de Noviembre
Me encuentro una notificación de una empresa de mensajería tirada en la escalera (sí, tirada en la escalera), no en mi buzón (como todas las empresas de mensajería hacen)
Lunes, 25 de Noviembre
Llamo (llamé el domingo pero nadie contestaba) y acordamos que enviarían el paquete el miércoles entre las 9 y las 10 de la mañana
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Nov 29, 2019
Do you know the quote?
“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”

Summarizing, I hate the movie, the 3 parts, I slept in every single one of them.

However, I love the quote, it's so versatile!

A few variations here (this is a thread):
"A Spaniard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."

I am Spanish, I live in Germany... Can you see the problem?

I use this quote when Germans are annoyed about punctuality, to be sure they know I don't really care.
"A Product Manager is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."

I use this when engineers complain about a late change of requirements. Hey, I do understand them, but when that happens, it is completely out of my control.

At least, they laugh.
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Nov 21, 2019
It's 11.41am, I woke up at 7.30am. I am 4 hours and 11 minutes into the day and this is how shitty it is so far... (1/5)
1. I took my mom for coffee. It was delicious. She was checking a very fancy tee set... and broke it.
2. The train that every day takes me to the office was delayed, very delayed. I walked to the office.

3. I overreacted to one my best friend's comment in a WhatsApp group. She is kinda upset on me.
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