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Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler.
The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.
Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. (tweet)
Advice
> What has made you a really effective product manager?
Focusing on prioritization. There are a lot of techniques to help add quantifiable scoring to prioritization, but in the end they are just games. Prioritization is about tradeoffs. It is about picking something that you believe in over something else that you don’t believe in as much. If you need those techniques to have the conversation then that is fine, but don’t believe these systems are always right or the final word. They are just the starting point.
At a consulting gig there was a CEO, who shall remain nameless, that was very hands on with the product. The biggest issue was that there was no respect for those tradeoffs. The most urgent thing always took precedence. This meant that we could never get better at what we did. We just had to keep grinding away on the small urgent things.
More to Come
Over the coming weeks we will be speaking with and learning more from Chris Butler.
Thank you to everyone who participated, nominated, interviewed, AND passed on the word! The nomination period for The Best Product Person of 2017 has begun! Nominate your pick for The Best Product Person right now!
http://TheBestProductPerson.com
And, don’t forget, take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. (tweet)
Enjoy!
Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
About ‘The Best Product Person’
The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy (http://tpgblog.com) and The Product Group (http://meetup.com/theproductgroup).
TBPP Recognizes 1 person each year, invites them to speak and share their knowledge and experience with the larger product community. The nominations can be submitted by anyone. And, if you are the first to submit the winning nominee, you too will be rewarded Over the course of the year, the various nominees are interviewed and the finalists narrowed down to: The Best Product Person of the year . The finalists are interviewed and evaluated for excellence in Product along the following lines… Becoming a Product Person, Your Product, Advice to Product People, and Future & Trends.
TBPP is both (1) the way the Product community gets together to recognize excellence amongst our ranks as well as (2) provide, to a large audience, insights into that excellence in a manner we can all learn from and leverage in our own Product journeys.
For more information about The Best Product Person award and past winners visit https://tpgblog.com/tbpp
About ‘The Product Group’
The Product Group is an opportunity for Product Managers, etc. to come together to meet, interact, and network. It’s an awesome way to meet fellow Product People in a laid-back, conversational environment within which sharing and learning can flourish and complement the knowledge base for all on a peer-to-peer basis. The NYC chapter of The Product Group meets the first Thursday of each month. If you are interested in a establishing chapter near you, please contact The Product Guy or The Product Group for more information. (https://tpgblog.com/theproductgroup/ )
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