Kassen Qian

Execution & Impact: You know what needs to be done now and what can wait, and you focus the team on the key priorities. You define progress and impact, measure them, and maximize results.

5. Make Team Management Your Highest Priority Product: To be a good product team manager, you need to have been a successful product manager first. "As a group product manager, my job is to help PMs own their ideas, work with stakeholders, get people on board and amplify their insights. Our product managers are my products."

1. The Role of Technology: in strong product companies, technology is not an expense, it is the business.

There are idiosyncrasies of software development that are invariant even as technique and technology improves, and so you are bound to recapitulate these patterns eventually.

2. Establish a culture of reflection3. Create more accountability

There is just the feeling that it should all be exceptional. We should push for an extreme quality bar on all of the fronts.

Honesty & Culture: You build trust, credibility, and respect with the team.