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Melissa Perri

@lissijean

1 Aug

One of my unvaccinated neighbors has COVID and it’s the first person my neighbors have known with it. But he has a mild case so they are all watching him mow the lawn using it as an excuse to further not get vaccinated. 🤦🏼‍♀️

My other neighbor is vaccinated though with a failing liver and saw this sick neighbor for a minute the other day before he got tested. So the vax’ed neighbor is freaking out he might have got it because the news is making it look like the breakthrough cases are rampant.

Again which is fueling the “well why should we get vaxed?” debate.

40% of my county in SC is vaxed.

I watched dead ppl being put in trailers in NYC before I moved. I got that vax the second I could in March.

The way all this is being handled is infuriating.

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Melissa Perri

@lissijean

7 Mar

If you’re not rethinking how your business model and company could be disrupted and made better by software products, you’re not truly doing a product “transformation”.

A thread on the power of #prodmgmt 👇 /1

Over the past 7 years I’ve worked with many large enterprises which are what I call “software enabled”. That means they don’t primarily sell software for revenue.

Banks, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, etc. /2

These companies typically were run on a traditional IT approach - the business tells tech what tools they need, and tech builds them. Tech is a Dev shop, a services org. Not strategic but reactive. /3

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Melissa Perri

@lissijean

5 Mar

@HomeDepot

Here’s my current saga with @HomeDepot and a story about their technology that is completely broken.

I returned $1000 worth of brick I bought online to the store. It said I could. The store accepted it but had to call homedepot.com to process the return. /1

@HomeDepot

This is an issue I run into all the time at @HomeDepot. They can never return the things I bought online without help but they still tell you to return to any store. So they accept the return, I leave. Here’s a pic of it sitting in the store. /2

I call to make sure it got processed when I leave, and they said yeah everything fine.

I get a call a week later from their shipping company trying to schedule to have it picked up. I tell them it’s at the store they can’t. They said they’ll cancel the pickup.

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Melissa Perri

@lissijean

25 Aug 20

Calling your Product Managers something else may solve some issues in the short term, but it's just going to prevent you from hiring great people in the long term.

Anyone who says titles are not important is either trying to screw over someone or in a very privileged position.

@BuiltInNewYork

Salary bands are determined by seniority. Salary bands are determined by job titles and positions.

This is from @BuiltInNewYork but I don't necessarily agree with these, just pointing out discrepancies in title.

Director of Product vs VP of Product salaries are HUGE differences.

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Melissa Perri

@lissijean

14 Jul 20

One big issue I see hold scaled companies back from doing great #prodmgmt is the lack of team work in middle management and exec layers. /1

We promote “scrum” teams and collaboration in an agile transformation, but we rarely talk about how middle managers and execs need to work too. /3

I worked with one company of 5000 people, about 50ish Director levels, and 10 VPs. It was a massive platform that was highly interconnects.

Every single leader set strategy themselves in a bubble. Then they started duplicating each other. /4

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Melissa Perri

@lissijean

13 Jul 20

https://twitter.com/drogier/status/1282530133752991744

I’ll caveat this for #prodmgmt.

If you are brand new to the field and the first PM, it’s hard to grow as fast compared to those who have someone to learn from.

Being a PM at a startup accelerated my career, but I had a great VP of Product to learn from.

https://twitter.com/drogier/status/1282530133752991744

If you do have a bit of experience in PM or someone to learn from there, I think startups are great. I had an opportunity to be employee 40ish at OpenSky or go to Amazon. I would have made a lot of money if I went to Amazon. My career would have never been the same.

Also I know there’s privilege in these choices, and I’ll say this- if you can negotiate a pay that’s comfortable, I’d recommend a startup. I had to do this to pass on Amazon (OS matched their base). I lost out on stock, but 10 years later my career has more than made up for it.

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