Why product management is hard (and why good product management matters) 1/15 👇🏾

Thanks ChatGPT for this Christmas poem 🎅😄 The product manager stood tall, the launch a success Cheers and applause, no room for stress The team worked hard, the product just right Merry Christmas to all, and a joyful night!

Ethical debt, like tech debt, can be costly and difficult to address. As tech debt accumulates when shortcuts are taken in the development process, ethical debt accumulates when ethical considerations are overlooked in the design and deployment of systems. Both must be addressed.

Many Product Managers still work as if their job is to make decisions. No. Your job is ensuring decision quality and that a decision is made. Your job is to extract the best decision out of the room. Making a decision yourself is last resort to prevent death by committee.

Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard. For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!

Okay - I did say that there would be some AI things that would make me smile at this conference #SuccessConnect... but AI generated goal planning (and breaking down milestones for measurement) is seriously impressive.

Ready for #successfactors 2023!

Anyone coming to Andrew Yeung’s tech mixer tonight? Let me know, keen for some interesting discussions about all of the things 😃 lu.ma/fallingfortech