James Heimbuck

AMA: ATG Group Product Manager, James Heimbuck on Technical Product Management

May 19 @ 10:00AM PT
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James Heimbuck
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGridMay 19
The job isn't translation. It's framing. Most PMs think bridging the gap between engineering and business stakeholders means translating technical concepts into plain Eng...
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James Heimbuck
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGridMay 19
Today EVERY PM is becoming a technical PM, or at least the lines are blurring in the new AI enabled world we're living in. The good news is that access to information abo...
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James Heimbuck
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGridMay 19
I don't think EMs are more respected than TPMs by default. Respect isn't a function of your title, it's a function of how you show up. TPMs, like almost all other PMs, ha...
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James Heimbuck
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGridMay 19
AI gives you more signal faster. If you didn't know how to prioritize before, more signal just means more noise. I've been saying this a lot lately and I think it's the m...
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James Heimbuck
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGridMay 19
The easiest path into TPM probably isn't updating your resume and applying externally but rather making the move inside your current company. I know that's not the answer...
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James Heimbuck
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGridMay 19
The requirements and docs were never the going to be the only value PMs brought to the table. AI didn't create that problem, it just made it harder to hide when other val...
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