Melissa Perri
14 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 28, 2022 by Melissa Perri · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Jul 28, 2022 negative
Perri: Athenahealth had 350 PMs repeatedly interviewing the exact same clients
“Like when I first started doing this. It was at Athena Health and we had 350 product managers and we had to make sure they weren't bothering the people at the same hospital over and over and over again, because they were when we came in and we said, wow, okay,…”
Jul 28, 2022
Perri: Constant shipping without moving metrics signals a missing product strategy
“Signs that there are no strategy. Teams are all working like dogs. Like they're working. 80 hours a week. I see this all the time. People are heads down, crunching, crunching, crunching, releasing, releasing, releasing, or sometimes not releasing, but they're …”
Jul 28, 2022 positive
Jul 28, 2022
Perri: 99% of product issues stem from strategy deployment, not training
“I've met a lot of organizations that think most of their issues are in the training of their people. And 99% of the time I see that it's actually in the way that they're setting their goals and deploying their strategy. Because once you train those people. The…”
Jul 28, 2022 positive
Perri: Product ops should standardize cross-functional deliverables, not internal rituals
“What I say is it doesn't standardize stuff that only belongs to a team. Like I don't care how a team does their standups. Like you choose how to do that. I'm not going to standardize that, but I do care what format your roadmap comes in. I do care how we make …”
Jul 28, 2022 positive
Perri: Product strategy belongs in two-page memos, not 20-page PRDs
“And it's not like a product requirements document that's 20 pages. It's like a two pager just explaining what we're doing and why. And that context we usually throw into Google docs or a wiki or something like that, link them all together so that you can go fr…”
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
Perri: Startups adopt product ops for data; enterprises for process
“So we usually see that high growth companies start with business data and insights and make sure that they have, they can actually monitor what they're doing and get the strategic inputs. We see larger companies and enterprises kind of go more towards the proc…”
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
Perri: Hire consultants instead of database engineers for data product ops
“What I wouldn't hire for that role as a first person is like a data.
It's not a database engineer, right?
Like that's not what we're doing.
We're not like
Sequel-ing, like turning things into the right SQL tables.
Like we're instead trying to get the info…”
Nov 16, 2023 negative
Nov 16, 2023 positive
Perri: ARR becomes strategically actionable only when segmented by customer and product
“ARR is interesting to me, but it's not as interesting to me as ARR by customer segment, right? It's not as interesting as ARR by product line. It's not as interesting if I take that and then look at it by retention or adoption by product or feature set or adop…”
Nov 10, 2024 negative
Perri: SAFe fails because it ignores product discovery and value connection
“And that's what I think SAFE was trying to do, but it's not working because it's not solving the problems of the product management, and it's not solving that problem of connecting the value Back to the product teams. Instead, it's seen as a role that almost l…”
Nov 10, 2024 negative
Perri: Middle-manager-led transformations fail because their jobs are at risk
“I've seen it run by a lot of middle managers, like a transformation run by tons of middle managers. And those are the jobs that are usually in most jeopardy when you start transforming and you have to reskill and you have to figure out what to do. And they don…”
Nov 10, 2024