10 Steps to Making IT Your Best Friend

Jonathan Mendez
Jonathan MendezFounder & CEO at Yieldbot
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Steps to Making IT your Best Friend Some of my Best Friends are IT 10 @jonathanmendez
1. Find a Champion
2. Align Your Goals
3. Make it for them to be successful
4) include them in everything
5. One Voice
6. Be Their Bullshit Filter
7. Make sure everybody knows how important they are.
8. Marketing manages trade-offs
9. Roadmaps & Deadlines
10. Share the glory
Thank You!
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SES Chicago Presentation, December 2009

Jonathan Mendez
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10 Steps to Making IT Your Best Friend