What happens when the CEO is the Product Owner and the Product Manager... and probably a designer or developer... and, your team only has three people? Yep, that's Product Management at an early stage startup. For the Boulder Startup Week edition of the Boulder Product Management Meetup, Eric Wu of Bracket Labs (formerly the VP of Product at Fuser) will present the lessons learned from bringing Agile Product Management skills honed in years as a PM coach and as the VP of Product at Fuser into his current role as the co-founder/Product Manager at a Boulder startup.

1. Startup Product Management
Lessons Learned
May 14, 2013 – Boulder Product Meetup
Eric Wu (@ewu)
eric@bracketlabs.com

3. Get Shit
Done

4. Get Shit
Done
more
faster and cheaper

5. Fail fast

6. Do this
• Build everything as a test
• Think about it like a chess game
• Keep fear and ego in check

7. Don’t build shit your
customers don’t want

8. Do this
• You are not the customer
• Perfect is the enemy of good
• Keep shipping

9. Process is critical…
but not too much

10. Do this
• 2 week sprints max
• Sprints start/end with demo,
retro, planning
• No longer than 90 minutes!
• Point estimates only

11. Start writing things
down

12. Do this
• For the first test
• To free your brain
• To build fluency

13. Recharge
your
batteries

14. Do this
• Disconnect from work,
reconnect with people
• Celebrate success (often)
• Remember, it’s fun!

15. Eric Wu
eric@bracketlabs.com
@ewu