Startup Product Management - Lessons Learned - Boulder Product Meetup - 14 May 2013
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Startup Product Management Lessons Learned May 14, 2013 – Boulder Product Meetup Eric Wu (@ewu) [email protected]
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What happens when the CEO is the Product Owner and the Product Manager... and probably a designer or developer... and, your team only has three people? Yep, that's Product Management at an early stage startup. For the Boulder Startup Week edition of the Boulder Product Management Meetup, Eric Wu of Bracket Labs (formerly the VP of Product at Fuser) will present the lessons learned from bringing Agile Product Management skills honed in years as a PM coach and as the VP of Product at Fuser into his current role as the co-founder/Product Manager at a Boulder startup.
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Startup Product Management Lessons Learned
May 14, 2013 – Boulder Product Meetup
Eric Wu (@ewu)
Get Shit Done
Get Shit Done
more
faster and cheaper
Fail fast
Do this
• Build everything as a test
• Think about it like a chess game
• Keep fear and ego in check
Don’t build shit your customers don’t want
Do this
• You are not the customer
• Perfect is the enemy of good
• Keep shipping
Process is critical… but not too much
Do this • 2 week sprints max
• Sprints start/end with demo,
retro, planning
• No longer than 90 minutes!
• Point estimates only
Start writing things down
Do this • For the first test
• To free your brain
• To build fluency
Recharge your
batteries
Do this • Disconnect from work,
reconnect with people
• Celebrate success (often)
• Remember, it’s fun!
