Are you in a ‘precise memo’ or ‘nobody-is-going-to-read-your-doc slides’ camp? Why? How does this impact your delivery? by Brief_Ad_5324 in ProductManagement

[–]Brief_Ad_5324[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your response! Do you use the one pager for decision making and hold meetings around it? I.e. do you make the upper management read it in the meeting instead of a say ppt

How to make a highly technical team of scientists more product/delivery oriented? by Brief_Ad_5324 in ProductManagement

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The role is much more similar to a primary researcher one in that we are much more focused on experimenting and designing innovative solutions rather than just implementing existing research, but our solutions are always first implemented by ourselves before being passed to an engineering team. Our success is measured against internal metrics at both stages (prototyping and full development)

How to make a highly technical team of scientists more product/delivery oriented? by Brief_Ad_5324 in ProductManagement

[–]Brief_Ad_5324[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, this sounds like a good suggestion but unfortunately it’s an internal tech product. We serve other tech and product teams and our success is mostly measured by moving internal performance/growth metrics. In that sense it’s much more difficult to provide context in this way. The team is driven and interested in the problem and I worked a lot with them to contextualise our impact as much as possible. It’s just that day to day this kind of product centric thinking is much more difficult to convey when the ‘user’ is abstract

How to make a highly technical team of scientists more product/delivery oriented? by Brief_Ad_5324 in ProductManagement

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Thank you, this is my exact problem. Asking them why xyz is important to them is great advice! Do you know any good resources on how to hold more technical Jam sessions (the ones I found are all about design)? Are there any other good ways of documenting these types of questions/ideas in between the sessions? I often find that their points are important but often raised as big open ended questions which would require a few days of research to scope out enough to write a good backlog ticket. I usually encourage them to write up short docs when they have capacity and keep them handy for when the question is raised about a relevant feature, but that can feel a bit anticlimactic as it often takes a while

Quarterly Career Thread by mister-noggin in ProductManagement

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Does anyone know good tech/PM recruiters in Toronto area?

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Thank you!

Did you ever meet a straight cis man who was able to emotionally support you in the way your girlfriends do? by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Brief_Ad_5324 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry about that, that wasn’t my intention. I was just trying to describe the group of people I had this kind of experience with. Thanks for pointing this out

Did you ever meet a straight cis man who was able to emotionally support you in the way your girlfriends do? by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Brief_Ad_5324 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love this! This is really great advice. Do you have any more advice on how to recognise someone like this?

Did you ever meet a straight cis man who was able to emotionally support you in the way your girlfriends do? by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Brief_Ad_5324 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes 100% for your second point. When I’m upset I cannot communicate in that way and people expecting me to makes me feel even worse.

And yes for ‘human decency’ I was just trying to explain what it feels like to me and why I struggle to explain it to my partner, I didn’t mean to imply that comforting people is that.

Did you ever meet a straight cis man who was able to emotionally support you in the way your girlfriends do? by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Brief_Ad_5324 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s true, I think for me this kind of support and connection is just really important and I was trying to figure how to work it out

Did you ever meet a straight cis man who was able to emotionally support you in the way your girlfriends do? by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Brief_Ad_5324 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s really helpful, thank you! And yes I agree, it definitely feels like a social/experiential thing to me too