Yamashita: PMs should share gut instincts instead of circling back later
Yuki (Yuhki Yamashita) · How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024 · Nov 20, 2024 · at 15:17
Yuhki Yamashita, Chief Product Officer at Figma, discusses effective product review strategies at the Lenny & Friends Summit.
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“Instead of always just circling back and following up later, which is probably what a lot of PMs do, tell your PMs that they should be unafraid to at least share their gut. And so often, you know, we live in a world where people don't have the perfect information and therefore they don't share their assumptions during a meeting, right? And so we end up waiting until a week after only to find out that we had very different assumptions in mind, and now you burned a week and you're back to square one. So if instead, during the meeting, you at least shared a rough idea of your thinking, even if it's imperfect, you can get a rough sense of where everyone is at, whether people are on the same page, and knowing that early, ah, is helpful because you can immediately get to the bottom of the misalignment versus waiting a week.”
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