Melissa Ushakov

One question I love to ask is: "Tell me about a time when a conversation with a customer made you realize that your product direction was wrong." I have heard so many g...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Working at GitLab for the last three years has shown me that fully remote teams can work and be highly effective. Teams at GitLab are remote and highly distributed and wo...