Has working remotely impacted your ability to deliver products?

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Ravneet Uberoi

Uber B2B Products | Formerly Matterport, Box, McKinsey • 3y

Working remotely has impacted each individual and their team differently. For some it has boosted productivity and flexibility. For others, it has impacted morale and connection to the mission. I encourage each and every one of us to reflect deeply on what kind of work set up brings out our best selves: is it remote, hybrid, in-person? How do you want to collaborate and what gives you energy vs. what drains your energy: team offsites, async vs sync communication, time zone alignment? There are ...Read More

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Laura Oppenheimer

Bubble Group Product Manager | Formerly Quizlet, Chegg • 3y

After 2.5 years into working remotely, the two areas that have been the most challenging for me are 1) cross functional exploration and ideation and 2) user research outside of video interviews. First, I've found it really challenging to replicate is the ability to get in a room with design, engineering and PMM partners and think through problems and solutions to those problems. Whiteboarding and brainstorming are frequently thought of as startup cliches, but there's something really powerful a ...Read More

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Anushka Anand

Salesforce Director of Product Management, Tableau Next • 1y

I think the pace of product delivery depends on the type of company more so that whether it's remote-first or all in-person. Working remotely definitely impacts how teams work together to deliver products. It's important to build relationships with key stakeholders and align on goals to be able to collaborate effectively, inspire high-functioning teams and demand big results.

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Puja Hait

Google Group Product Manager • 3y

In my experience, real human interactions help in building relationships and trust. There may be other effective ways of achieving this too.

Once you establish those, working remotely does not adversely impact delivering best products. In fact, I have seen hyper productivity working remotely in some instances.

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Brandon Green

Buffer Staff Product Manager | Formerly Wayfair, Abstract, CustomMade, Sonicbids • 4y

Not at all - it just changes how I think about product delivery and the tools my teams and I use. In the office, it was common to rally a bunch of teammates together in a "war room"-like setting, heads behind laptops and quickly bouncing status updates or ideas or urgent issues around to move a product forward. Now, we do that over Slack and/or Zoom. The main opportunity remote work has brought is a critical need for documentation - that is, an easily interpretable and navigable paper trail for ...Read More

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Deepti Srivastava

Head of Product, VP • 3y
In my experience working even pre-pandemic with hybrid, remote and globally distributed teams, the most important things for product development teams are:
- clear and open communication channels
- written objectives, priorities, and any decisions for all stakeholders
so all parties are clear on overall product direction, priorities, tasks and metrics to optimize for. If everyone involved is on the same page, product delivery can be smooth regardless of remote work.
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