The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Vanity metrics make us feel good but don’t help us do better work or make better decisions. Vanity metrics put optics before rigor, learning, and transparency. The metric and/or an outcome is heralded as a win, but things don’t add up.
Collaborative skills are not just critical in product management—they’re just as important, if not more so, than technical skills. Collaboration isn’t just key in getting the best performance out of your product development team; it’s also vital to "closing the loop" and delivering a product that meets the users’ needs.
In our workshops, we use the following image to describe different team structures and approaches to collaboration.