Startup Product Management - Lessons Learned - Boulder Product Meetup - 14 May 2013

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What happens when the CEO is the Product Owner and the Product Manager... and probably a designer or developer... and, your team only has three people? Yep, that's Product Management at an early stage startup. For the Boulder Startup Week edition of the Boulder Product Management Meetup, Eric Wu of Bracket Labs (formerly the VP of Product at Fuser) will present the lessons learned from bringing Agile Product Management skills honed in years as a PM coach and as the VP of Product at Fuser into his current role as the co-founder/Product Manager at a Boulder startup.

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Startup Product Management Lessons Learned

May 14, 2013 – Boulder Product Meetup

Eric Wu (@ewu)

eric@bracketlabs.com

Get Shit Done

Get Shit Done

more

faster and cheaper

Fail fast

Do this

• Build everything as a test

• Think about it like a chess game

• Keep fear and ego in check

Don’t build shit your customers don’t want

Do this

• You are not the customer

• Perfect is the enemy of good

• Keep shipping

Process is critical… but not too much

Do this • 2 week sprints max

• Sprints start/end with demo,

retro, planning

• No longer than 90 minutes!

• Point estimates only

Start writing things down

Do this • For the first test

• To free your brain

• To build fluency

Recharge your

batteries

Do this • Disconnect from work,

reconnect with people

• Celebrate success (often)

• Remember, it’s fun!

Eric Wu

eric@bracketlabs.com

@ewu