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For me, being a product manager is all about:
🤝 understanding and shaping the vision
🤝 gathering data, both qualitative and quantitative, to validate your assumptions
🤝 following a strategy instead of creating a backlog
🤝 focus on high outcome with low output
🤝 making decisions on rational conclusions with a light touch of gut feeling
🤝 enabling your team to understand and create
🤝 agile mindset to create accountability and independence
Things I strongly approve:
Des Traynor about his Product Strategy
Jana Bastow about Roadmaps:
Timeline roadmaps suck - Janna Bastow's Twitter TED Talk
Ryan Singer and Shape up:
👍 When needed, I know how to write queries in (my)SQL and I understand when non-relational databases make sense. These skills are mainly used for Product Analytics or BI tools. Big fan of Metabase & Amplitude.
👍 Believer of no-code/low-code tools like Retool or Airtable, which have helped me a lot to create fast solutions for simple problems.
👍 I like to think about high-level architecture. Events, APIs, micro-services, data storage and usage of Cloud infrastructure or XaaS/PaaS/SaaS are building blocks I like to understand when talking about solutions.
👍 I've built a bunch of web applications in the past, and still know my way around PHP or modern JS frameworks (with the help of ChatGPT).
👍 Cloud Platforms as GCP and AWS or the what/how/why of CI/CD, pipelines, containerisation and scaling challenges are still an interest but not actively maintaining my knowledge.
🇧🇪 Native Dutch Speaker
🇬🇧 Fluent in English
🇫🇷 I can join a conversation, but it all has become quite rusty