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Didier Varlot
Product Manager
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• 35 years of experience in project management involving hardware and software. • Experience of growing an industrial company from 3 employees to 1500. • Experience of product management in railway industry, renewable energy and Tech (SAAS). • Wor......more
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Didier Varlot
Product Manager • November 15
The most important is to first listen to their worries regarding your project and determine the core problem that could be tackled solving more than the worries of one of the stakeholder, but most of the worries of nearly all the stakeholder. The stakeholders are as the users giving feedback, th......Read More
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Didier Varlot
Product Manager • December 16
This is the role of the product managers to bring up what the users want to see built. This is usually not good practice to have the executive giving too much guidance. The executive should give the vision, and the product managers should determine the features on the roadmap based on the priori......Read More
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Didier Varlot
Product Manager • November 18
The Insight I gained from internal stakeholders helped me get a more precise idea of how to prioritize the projects. User feedback is really important, but it is also very important that you don't let the user drive your strategy. This is where the insight from the internal stakeholders becomes ......Read More
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Didier Varlot
Product Manager • November 29
From my experience, a historically tense relationship comes from a conflict in the sense that both functions have two irreconcilable points of view or courses of actions as necessary to fulfill their objectives. Each one sees the other's point of view as preventing them from achieving their objec......Read More
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Didier Varlot
Product Manager • November 18
I start working as a product manager from one unexpected opportunity from a career of 35 years of project management. The role of a product manager is one of those less well-defined I have ever encountered. It can mean very different kinds of jobs in different companies. I would first advise......Read More
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Didier Varlot
Product Manager • December 15
The main risk is constantly deprioritizing the Compliance and maintenance work and building a tech debt at such a level that it will take forever to pay it back. There are two kinds of situations: 1- you do not have a vast tech debt, and you can manage compliance and maintenance work by alloca......Read More
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Didier Varlot
Product Manager • December 28
When departments have different opinions on prioritization, the product manager needs even more to have a transparent and data-driven prioritization method. Sales is a very important source of prioritization, and the art of product management is to find the right balance between supplying featur......Read More
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Credentials & Highlights
Product Manager
Formerly ClickUp
Studied at Engineering degree and PhD
Lives In Bucharest, Romania,
Hobbies include Reading, learning, and walks in forest
Knows About Establishing Product Management, Project Management, Enterprise Product Management, T......more
Speaks French, English, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish