Alexander Böhm 🚢 | The Product Punch 🤜

@palmerj3 @JustAnotherPM That’s a great point. Get them to focus more on trying out things but keep them focused on what to achieve. Not easy to provide guidance tho.

@JustAnotherPM Create a “safe to fail” environment. We try the crazy ideas and no one gets fired if they don’t pan out.

Product managers, how would you change things if all the engineers (for your product) started reporting to you?

@McClellandRuss @JustAnotherPM How many donut right tho? Are there any circumstances where making it right is not possible ?

@JustAnotherPM If you're doing it right, nothing should change except the person approval PTO requests... Product and Tech should be 2 sides of the same coin.

@dickiebush Critical thinking

If you designed the world's education curriculum, what's the first skill you would teach?

@PawelHuryn The key part of data is to build up your intuition or product sense.

People keep repeating that PMs should make "data-driven decisions." I'm sorry, but it's absurd. We are not lab geeks. As Jeff Bezos noted, "speed matters in business." And it's especially relevant for the speed at which we learn. The key to making decisions is being transparent and taking calculated risks without full information, especially when: - The time to market matters - The potential benefits outweigh the risks - Your decisions can be easily reversed (aka “two-way doors”) Our decisions should be informed (not driven) by: - Data (quantitative insights, e.g., product and data analytics, experiment results). - Qualitative insights (e.g., customer interviews, stakeholders, social listening, changes in the market, new technologies). - Intuition (aka “product sense”), which results from experience and immersing yourself in the market and the business context. And it's okay when sometimes our hands get dirty in the process. Do you agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments.

@KiwiDenny Easy answer is to show the outcome of those outputs. But what if the management then prioritizes other outputs to achieve an outcome?

You are Product Manager, who wants to focus on outcomes. Your Management purely focuses on output. How do you get these two worlds aligned?

@carlvellotti Did the data collection involve a prototype of said feature?

A classic PM problem: An executive is pushing to launch a big new feature they're excited about. You have data suggesting users won't find it valuable. How do you handle this situation with the exec while responsibly building what's best for users and the business?

@yanatweets @carlvellotti Did you get your employees to read? In my company people don’t like to read documents and I try to change that culture 🙈

@carlvellotti People don't read. Ever. One of my favorite topics :) x.com/yanatweets/sta…

if only people could read

@DaveMeier How much did it drop since 2008?

Attention spans dropped by 75% since 2000. What's the problem?

@carlvellotti The user obviously needs it.

Make a product manager cry in 5 words.

@carlvellotti Can you even decide with that little information? Really depends how your business runs. What is the revenue share of power users? How do we generate power users? From casual users or do they start as power users? What is the overlap of casual and power users in terms of usage?

Product managers, a dilemma: Your north star metric has been steadily increasing, but analysis reveals most of the gains are coming from power users while casual users are churning at a higher rate. Do you optimize for power users or try to better serve the casual audience?

@KiwiDenny Oh that is really a nice use case for ChatGPT

ChatGPT is so good in spotting areas of improvements. 1️⃣ Screenshot what you want to get revied 2️⃣ Paste it into ChatGPT 3️⃣ Ask for areas of improvements 4️⃣ Be ready to becomes engineers/dsigners best friend Such a great way to spot issues, which can easily be overlooked.

@ant_murphy What about external stakeholders like investors? 🙈

I don't remember where I heard it but I really liked the framing: Business are two sided market: - You have customers - but you also have your employees You need to market to both. You have to attract customer but also actively market to attract top talent.

@dklineii Might be true but how to get out of them?

90% of meetings are mutually agreeable procrastination.

@PatThePM The effort they put in their reply is more important. Obviously depending on my question.

Does the speed at which someone responds to your slack or email (at work) influence your professional opinion of them?

@shreyas What are indicators I can look out for that a bad product decision is made by me due to my urge to feel smart?

If you are already quite intelligent & industrious, your ability to make better, more correct product decisions (macro & micro) is being impaired by your tendency to want to feel smart while you are doing your work, having product discussions, and making those product decisions.

@PatThePM As a head of product, how do you manage this urgency while knowing that each of your directs is already overworked?

Massively underrated PM skill: An unrelenting sense of urgency.

@dklineii What about “it depends”?

"Maybe" is just a really expensive "No."

@AlexAndBooks_ Is there any book that is meant to be memorized tho? 🙈

Self-help books are manuals that are meant to be applied, not masterpieces meant to be memorized.

@JustAnotherPM People are afraid of the reality that feedback provides

"I know what users want. We can skip user research" ~ over confident product manager

@nurijanian Haha that is so true

Real talk: I’ve felt a bit down this week. If you’re not having a career crisis every few months, you’re a PM at one of those magical places from books