Xiang’s story
The best part of product development is when you’ve overcome the hurdles and you’re all on the same boat. You can feel the momentum.
Xiang Yu
Senior Product Manager at Style Analytics
We start by coming up with the specs for a new product or a new functionality. Then it’s about presenting it. Getting feedback. You get interactions, sometimes doubt. And then you move to excitement and momentum, you can feel it when everyone is on board.
Making it happen means finding a balance between perfection and practicality. The plan is always a moving target; sometimes we have to knock off bits we’re fond of, in order to make the deadline and get that functionality to our clients.
A lot of my role is about getting my ducks in a row, across many teams. I love to plan, so this is my happy place. And communication is critical of course. My style is little and often. ‘Often’ keeps the juice flowing – it helps to build connectivity and trust. It allows for those ad hoc discussions that pull people together.
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