Thanks for the read. Forwarding. Pine On Jun 19, 2015 7:07 AM, "Brian Gerstle" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thought some people would find this stream of tweets from Charlie Kindel > [0] > < > http://ceklog.kindel.com/2015/06/18/what-it-means-to-be-great-product-manager/ > > > interesting. I'd also recommend perusing his other posts about leadership > & engineering culture. Here's my take on a few snippets, curious to hear > your thoughts as well: > > *"the only work that truly matters is that of the engineers"* > > While engineers might be responsible for "actually building things," > Charlie himself admits that the quality (and relevance) of our work is > highly dependent on multiple factors leading up to the first engineer's > keystroke. > > *"left to their own devices, engineers will do two things: 1) the most > complicated thing, 2) the thing they think is fun"* > > Guilty as charged, but I think engineers who are "sold" on the teams' > mission are capable of making good decisions about what to work on. Our > current situation in the Readership vertical is a live experiment on this > subject. > > Finally, I wholeheartedly agree that I do my best work when it's crystal > clear *"who the customer is, where the customer is, why the customer cares, > why it’s important for the business, and when it’s relevant."* > > Happy reading! > > Brian > > 0: > > http://ceklog.kindel.com/2015/06/18/what-it-means-to-be-great-product-manager/ > > -- > EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle > IRC: bgerstle > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
