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GitHub’s reputation as a tool for developers to collaborate on code contributions is well known, as is it’s use in open source. However the tool still hasn’t broken through on large scale use for product planning on private project. At Shopify we’re not large consumers of project management software so you’ll see teams leveraging docs and sheets more than anything else [...]
Mike Mason
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You will make tens of thousands of decisions in your career but not all decisions should be treated equally. Learning to use the right decision making approach can result in better decisions, improved team health, and greater speed of delivery. Below are seven ways you can go about making a decision. You can use them in your everyday work but it’s helpful to get alignment from others that the [...]
Mike Mason
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Throughout your career you will undoubtedly find yourself in many situations where you will be joining a new team or gaining new team members. A make or break factor in your ability to collaborate effectively with said team and with those new team members is the level of trust you have between one another. Trust is crucially important for product managers, since the members of your team you need to [...]