@yanatweets If you have an engineering manager counterpart, become best friends with this person, or at the very least, try to have the best relationship you can have with them. If the two of you work together, great things can happen. If at odds, every day will be a constant struggle.

@legalytical

@yanatweets Get your product into the hands of users as early as possible to get their feedback. It will keep you from spending time building unnecessary features.

@mturner 💯 We're living this right now. There's so many features that got deprioritized (potentially scrapped) based on early users' burning needs.

@yanatweets You want the teams you work with to be as productive and successful as possible. Flexibility is the key to making this happen. Don’t dictate, adapt. Don’t talk, listen. Don’t demand, motivate, observe and explain instead. Subvert your ego to the benefit of everyone else.

@metz123 Couldn’t agree more. In fact, “flexible” is how our team describes our culture

@yanatweets Learning how to define and articulate value props and success metrics will 🚀 your abilities to 🚢 software. Being able to communicate “why” your making a product decision is more valuable then the software itself. If your initiative was never approved, the idea never mattered.

@yanatweets Managing people is hard. Especially when they have different backgrounds and cultures. Bringing them together for one common goal is a huge challenge.

@yanatweets The work is different than the job.

@yanatweets Praying, while perhaps comforting, is not a strategy.

@yanatweets Be comfortable with ambiguity. There is no right answer but lots of wrong ones. Engineers turned PM find this the hardest. They want an answer. But many times there is ambiguity. So building that muscle is important.

@yanatweets As capable as one can be, do not attempt to do everything by yourself. best advice that I’ve implemented/ing is that PMs are resourceful. Finding ways to leverage the various elements in your product ecosystem is going to be the best method for success while maintaining sanity 😊

@yanatweets You will never have the final product figured out at one, products are like pictures that are progressively and incrementally drawn

@yanatweets The longer you go without getting your plans and product in the hands of actual users, the more likely it is you never will!

@yanatweets Fewer features that work amazingly well = better than many features half-baked. Also talk to target/customers more than you think is needed. Early access to offerings is so important. Don’t build out a feature that isn’t on top of customer lists (unless internal req). #product

@yanatweets Talk to your customer

@yanatweets Spending time on building team chemistry is key. Talk about hobbies and other personal stuff goes a long a way.

@yanatweets You need both a Personal Strategy- how you’re going to spend your scarce time & attention for maximum impact, as well as a Product Strategy, how will you create the greatest value soonest with the least Engineering cycles, your other scarcest commodity.

@yanatweets Spend 5+ hours a week with customers, every week. Everything else gets clearer