Being a PM at Microsoft: Flexibility and rigor
Someone once described this to me as “starters and finishers”. I think about it as “knowing when to march and knowing when to dance.” No matter what you call it, there are different skills needed at different times in a project or in the lifecycle of a product and it’s important to know which one is needed when.
Chapters
00:00 - Welcome to the video
00:30 - Series introduction
01:17 - Topic introduction
01:52 - An analogy: Going to prom
03:06 - Making the analogy more concrete
04:08 – Marching and dancing
05:30 - Tip 1: Different skills and different approaches are needed at different times
06:14 - Tip 2: You’re probably better at one, but you need to do both – remember how impact works
08:04 - Tip 3: Lots of PM work is interrupt-driven – find a balance and a rhythm
09:08 - Here's the deal
09:53 - Wrapping up
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