If I can reflect on a few things at the turning of a chapter in my life:
1) Start things. Not for the glory or money, but because they'll be fun and they'll help you learn. That's why I started MTP. Not because I knew all about product, but because I wanted to learn about it.
Oct 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
People have this misconception that giving deadlines somehow incentivizes work to be done. As if having no deadlines means that nothing will ever get finished.
Categorically untrue!🙅🏻♀️
People are incentivized to make an impact, so tie work to outcomes. Show your team how they can impact customer behavior and the bottom line by getting their work out the door.
Let them push the button on releases and share the good news of what they're building with the world.
Oct 27, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Timeline roadmaps result in a constant barrage of deadlines resulting in:
🤷🏻♀️ Made up release dates
☠ Development death marches
🤥 Mismanaged expectations
💸 Missed market opportunities
💩 Building the wrong things
😢 Sad product managers
And it leads to a ⚠vicious cycle⚠ that can be hard to get out of:
1️⃣ No one wants to be caught holding the hot potato, missing a deadline, so bigger and bigger buffers are given.
Developer thinks it'll take 5 days, tells you 7, you put 10 on the roadmap just to be safe 🤞
Jun 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A lot of people see continuous deployment as a pinnacle of achievement in tech terms, but superfluous for the business.
After all, who really cares that your deployment process is smooth and fast. Does it really make a difference to the bottom line?
It does, actually.
Continuous deployment means being able to continuously iterate. And what is continuous iteration, if not the core of being agile - the ability to iterate easily when needed.
If you have to wait weeks between iterations, that's not very agile.
Oct 11, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I met an Associate Product Manager at #ProductTank last night, who asked my advice about staying sane in what he could see what becoming a stressful job.
I'm the spirit of #WorldMentalHealthDay I'll share my advice:
Product management is one of the most stressful roles.
You're outnumbered by developers, support, sales, and everyone else... often the only one of your kind on the team.
Start by acknowledging how tricky it'll be, and be prepared to be forgiving of yourself 👐
Sep 2, 2019 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Most roadmaps are setting up their product teams to fail.
That's because, even today, most roadmaps still follow the dreaded *timeline roadmap* format 😱
And here's why that sucks. THREAD 👇
The old school way of roadmapping is a timeline format. You can tell it's still popular by just doing an image search result for 'product roadmap' and seeing the resulting mess.
