This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 10-year old post from ProdPad CEO Janna Bastow on the subject of new year’s resolutions. Here’s what Janna suggested back then, her advice is just as applicable today.
See more customers
Janna says that customer testing should be the bread and butter of modern product management; not the cherry on the cake. “This year, aim to work it into every step of your product process so that you can be confident your decisions are based on real customer feedback and data.”
Learn to be humble and play nice
The best ideas can come from anyone – colleague or customer – so resolve to give them a chance.
Kill more features
Be ruthless.
Do less
Try to test more, play more, experiment more, but not necessarily “do” more.
Don’t try and do it alone
Get involved in the Product community
Read the original post: How to be a better product manager this new year
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