The most valuable piece of this week

Today wraps my second week at work. The most valuable piece I could experience this week was working side by side with the new team I joined.

In comparison with previous work environments, this experience brings an exponentially larger number of people for me to interact with.

Luckily for me, the team had planned a quarterly event that coincided with my second week on the job. So we all got together in the same physical space, which also happened to be the HQ of the company and it was a win-win for me to experience all of this in one go.

My impression was that this was the most productive team event I have been a part of in a long time. All sessions were well organized, with clear goals set in advanced. Everybody was present and engaged. A lot of valuable output came out of almost every session. I got to see in action: a charismatic engineering lead, a product manager on top of things, a product designer enjoying workshop facilitation, participative engineers, a proactive data analyst, a knowledgeable QA in action. I also got to interact with product marketing, and sales. And all of this in just 2 days!

I left with a sense of confidence, because to do a great job in product management you need to rely on a great team. This is no solo job, this is team stuff and it looks like I am part of a killer team. We now have to wait and see what the results will show after a while. I hope my first impressions survive the test of time 🙂

The next big piece to continue building this new puzzle: Get to know the customer.

Happy Friday,
Maria ☀️