Nikita Miller
SVP of Product Management, The Knot Worldwide. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Nikita Miller is the SVP of Product Management at The Knot Worldwide, as well as an angel investor and advisor. She previously served as a product leader at Trello and Atlassian for five years.
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Miller: Formal PM training has reduced the craft's organic creativity
“And there's a whole business, honestly, around the business of product management, which I find really fascinating and didn't exist. And I think for better or worse, that comes with a lot of good. And in some ways I think might've removed some of the quirkines…”
Miller: Early-stage startups require in-person work and long hours together
“So right now, at this particular moment in my life, I'm probably not gonna go hard at a super early stage startup. Right. Because I believe that you probably need to be in person and working really hard together for long periods of time.”
Nikita Miller: In-person onboarding is essential for every new hire
“I think that in-person onboarding for new folks is really important, especially for everyone, for any new person or organization.”
Miller: Progressive disclosure differentiates Trello from complex management tools
“So some of it's around, you know, this concept of progressive disclosure, where you start with a small problem and as it gets more sophisticated, Trello grows with you. Where they think some of the other products, they start with complexity. And if you want so…”
Miller: Trello is best for ideation and discovery; Jira suits task breakdown
“Smaller teams, especially folks that are ideating, right, when you haven't landed on what you're going to build yet
, I think Trello is a great product for that, for pulling ideas, for prioritizing them, for tracking how we're progressing through, like, disco…”
Miller: Cross-functional leaders should negotiate explicit contracts for role expectations
“The exercise, especially with leaders in an org is to have them sit down and write them for each other. So Alassian has some of this that they do in the form of playbooks, but it's basically I, as a product leader, I'm going to write down what I think the expe…”
Miller: Sprint and project management have shifted onto engineering managers
“So I think like 10, 12 years ago, everyone expected that they would have scrum masters and scrum masters have like largely in many companies just kind of disappeared. But then you think, well, where did that responsibility go? Because someone has to do Project…”
Miller: Dedicated product data scientists identify patterns better than ticket-based analysts
“The other is just that data scientists, as with most humans, like we get better, the more focused we are and the more in depth we are in understanding the product itself. Right. So If you have someone that's dedicated to a zone or an area of the product, then …”
Miller: Product managers must be the primary drivers of urgency
“But I think product managers, like I consider product to be the ones that really need to drive urgency.”
Miller: The best product designers are exceptionally savvy business people
“I think designers, the expectation is that they'll be more Business oriented, right? Design as a means, honestly, to an end. I think that's trending and probably for the better, I think the best designers I've ever worked with are also like exceptionally savvy…”
Miller: Startups are the best training ground for breaking into PM
“I think getting into startups as a product manager is a pretty awesome way to get into product because it's just a lot of problem solving. The problem with that is you don't have anyone to teach you the right way, but the product will teach you the right and w…”
Miller: Frame work-life balance as dynamic optimization, not equal equilibrium
“Recently when I think about work-life balance, I don't use the word balance. I use optimization, right? It's this question of like, what are you optimizing for right now? Whether it's today or this quarter or this year with the understanding that I don't think…”
Nikita Miller: Trello and Atlassian required core overlapping hours for remote teams
“I do think that the Trello and Atlassian, I think did this really well, is having standards around a couple of things. The biggest one I think was overlapping work hours. So everyone had general flexibility, but there were some set of hours where everyone need…”
Miller: Trello Power-Ups are underutilized for solving complex workflow needs
“I think the biggest that people probably know about, but are often underutilized are power-ups, which is basically our integrations. And power-ups are folks that are usually doing things that are more complex often. But Trello, you know, when you think about i…”
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