My PM Tenets…

I’m not kidding about these.

• know why we’re doing something, and why now.
• know to say no.
• simplicity is a good thing.
• big problems can be broken down into smaller problems.
• big things can be delivered in small chunks.
• a quick decision is better than a no decision.
• a 30 minute meeting is better than 215 slack messages.
• the “two out of three: speed, quality, coverage” is a false tradeoff; don’t tradeoff on quality.
• better to do few things well than more things half-assed.
• don’t start slack messages with ‘Hi’ and leave the recipient hanging. Provide context and ask upfront.
• rewriting your doc 47 times doesn’t make it better.
• don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
• your customers don’t care about your org structure.