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Nikita Miller: evaluation

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)

“I think a lot of people end up putting a lot on the PM's plate because of that misunderstanding.”

— Nikita Miller

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Nikita Miller
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evaluation
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6 Apr 2023
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Is there anything that you find is surprising about what teams end up taking off the PM's plate or putting on the plate that maybe other companies don't? I think a lot of people end up putting a lot on the PM's plate because of that misunderstanding. And so you end up looking at something as a group and saying, "Well, no one human can do all of those things all the time, so let's talk about what the shared responsibility looks like." And what I think is really powerful about the triad is that it's a recognition of there are shared responsibilities. Who's responsible for making sure that everyone understands what we're doing and why, the PM leads that, but evangelizing that is something that would be expected of designers and engineering managers and data scientists as well. On the data scientist piece, you talked about how you're trying to embed that more and more into product teams. At Airbnb, data scientists were embedded in every team, so I totally get that.…

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