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AMA: GitHub Senior Director of Product Management, Julian Dunn on Stakeholder Management

September 8 @ 10:00AM PST
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GitHub Senior Director of Product Management, Julian Dunn on Stakeholder Management
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Julian Dunn
Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product ManagementSeptember 8
There are some commonalities and some differences. First and foremost, across all constituents, I always promise that product management will always listen to them, carefully consider their feedback and advice, but we may not do what they want. This isn't to be mean. Many constituents not worked ......Read More
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Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product ManagementSeptember 8
Since I have experience on both sides of the aisle, I can agree that this is definitely a complex relationship! PM and PMM are two of the toughest roles involved in bringing products to market, because of the high degree of uncertainty that each job entails and the need to tailor each role's work......Read More
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Julian Dunn
Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product ManagementSeptember 8
My current product team consists of four direct reports who are all senior product managers. My job as a director is to create distinct areas of responsibility (AoRs) for these PMs to deeply understand customer problems, conduct discovery and research with their design and engineering (tech lead)......Read More
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Julian Dunn
Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product ManagementSeptember 8
First, if you truly have stakeholders whose goals are 180 degrees opposite from yours, that's an alignment problem in the organization's executive leadership team and you have to decide whether that's something you believe you can change. But in my experience it's rarely this clear cut. Nobody ha......Read More
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Julian Dunn
Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product ManagementSeptember 8
First, get good at written communications -- both as a writer and a reader. One of the most impactful lessons that I took away from the Amazon Working Backwards book by Bill Carr and Colin Bryar is how much they focus on crafting and refining written narratives like the six-pager or the PR/FAQ. N......Read More
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