Tune in to listen to Whitney Knowlton, Product Manager at Dropbox.com, share the stories behind some of her best product wisdom & career tips for new and aspiring/pivoting product managers.
Whitney's product wisdom & career tips discussed in this episode
- Contract roles are excellent ways to get a sense of what the real day-to-day is like
- Don't always look for the right company, look for the right manager
- If you want it bad enough, go learn it
- When doing all the things, stop and ask, what's the problem you are trying to solve, just because it's on a backlog does not mean it should be
- What are the signals you need to look for to know you are solving the right problem
- What is the minimum scope possible to get signal
- Learn enough so you know what to do next if you were not on the right track
- Don't get out of practice of engaging with your customers
- Find the link between your success metric in the business and what success means for the customer in using your product.
- Anchor everything back to the end customer needs
- Find something meaningful in what you do every day
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