AMA: GitLab Group Manager, Product Management, Melissa Ushakov on Developer Product Management

I've always been drawn to tools that help teams collaborate. I love the feeling of knowing that I made a team's day-to-day work easier, more enjoyable and gave them more ...

As a Product Manager, you need deep knowledge of the personas you serve. To build great products for developers, you don't need to be a developer, but you need to underst...

I'm a Group Manager of Product at GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/product/product-management-leadership/#group-manager-product-gmp. I am a manager for the Pr...

Soft skill: Great product managers can seamlessly adjust their communication to match their audience. As a product manager, you'll speak with people in different roles a...

Developers on the team will generally have a sense of the market since the products we build target them as a persona, especially if you're dogfooding your product. It's ...

One common mistake I have seen is having a monetization model that does not scale. Services and customization on top of open-source software will only scale as much as yo...

There are three key aspects of this: Consistency - In large companies, APIs are maintained by many teams. Ensuring consistency across endpoints is essential to a great e...

I think that the whole team should strive to build a product that end users love. I love when there's passion on the team and ideas about what to build. When you are buil...