Curating The best of @mattlemay (for me)

1-Product management in theory is very different from product management in practice.

"In theory, product management is a masterfully played game of chess. In practice, product management often feels like a hundred simultaneous games of checkers."

2-Spend no more than one page and one hour on any deliverable before sharing it.

3-Communication: Clarity over comfort.

4-Organization: Communications at scale.

5-Avoid the temptation of being president of the meeting-haters club.

6-Technical skills are not transferable.

"any assessment of the required hard skills for a specific product management role should begin with the work that a product manager will be expected to do day-to-day — which, in most cases, is much more connective than it is technical"

7-Agile in 3 sentences

* Agile means that we start with our customers
* Agile means that we collaborate early and often
* Agile means that we plan for uncertainty

8-First Law of Organizational Gravity: individuals in an organization will avoid customer-facing work if it is not aligned with their day-to-day responsibilities and incentives.

9-Agile is not about speed of execution, it’s about speed of delivering value to customers