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Rameez Kakodker
PTOTD#61

One indicator of your success as a PM is if the team looks to you for vision, strategy and direction as often as they do for conflict resolution.

Thoughts on the PTOTD

If the team only looks to you for conflict resolution, you’re acting like a parent to teenagers. You serve no other purpose. And remember, teenagers secretly hate their parents.

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  1. Your team is an important source of features. Pay attention to their inputs.
  2. Trusting your team is important, but don’t be too trusting. Trust, but verify.
  3. Your success as a PM is more about your ability to process a ton of cross-functional information and be decisive in the face of uncertainity.
  4. Getting better at estimation is for your team to achieve. The work will take the same amount of time – witth or without the estimates
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