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Published · transcript-backedNikita Miller: belief
6 Apr 2023 Lenny's Podcast Driving alignment and urgency within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller (The Knot, Trello)
“From my experience as a product manager, it was always a blocker. Getting your hands on the data, maybe having someone to troubleshoot with if as a PM you couldn't kind of understand or figure it out yourself, it was just always a blocker.”
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- Nikita Miller
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- 6 Apr 2023
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah, exactly. What more can you share there of just why you found that to be important and how you're approaching that? From my experience as a product manager, it was always a blocker. Getting your hands on the data, maybe having someone to troubleshoot with if as a PM you couldn't kind of understand or figure it out yourself, it was just always a blocker. And so then you'd also then have to go and negotiate with other teams about getting someone's resources to look at this problem, so that's one. The other is just that data scientists, as with most humans, we get better the more focused we are and the more in depth we are in understanding the product itself. So if you have someone that's dedicated to a zone or an area of the product, then it's much easier for them to spot patterns as opposed to attempting to understand what's happening every time a ticket comes in. And so the shift you push for is instead of a centralized data team that you convince to give you resources, you embed the data scientist into the team.…
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