July 2022 recap & what on August

A summary at the most interesting posts this month and what to expect for next month.

Hi friends,

We’re now a tribe of 1.600 practitioners!

My mission in this newsletter is to help product managers and product designers develop impactful products. I’m so grateful for all of you. Thank you for all the support!

One day I hope to build a community for us to get together, but now it is just virtually impossible for me to manage the time. I’ll be looking for a volunteer who’d be interested in helping as a community manager and a designer,. Please reach out if you’re interested.

Now, I want to share a recap from July and to share what you can expect for the next month.

Look back in July

1. Trust Battery - How to think about trust? We’re responsible for building and maintaining trust with the other function. You should invest time.

2. Is persona useless? 🔒A lot of people hate persona. Persona is a tool. You can produce a bad thing or a good thing. I find it useful.

3. Dear Budi: What cadences do you run in your team? A reader asked what cadences and rituals I run in the team. I shared my 4 favorite cadences.

4. Build an opportunity backlog to cure “we’ll improve it next time” that never happens. 🔒 It always happens, we cut scope, and we promise to improve it next time. But when is it? Would it be a priority?

5. Dear Budi: How to make 30 days onboarding plan. One of the readers was about to join a new team and asked a question. How to prepare? What to keep in mind?

6. How to prepare your one-on-one as an IC (with template) 🔒 One-on-one can be a mystery for most people. Here’s how I’d run my 1:1 as an individual contributor

7. On project management - Managing the project and coordinating people can be challenging. I wrote a few shortlist that will help you to think about project management.

Look forward to August

• Dear Budi: How to be strategic in designing onboarding experience 🔒

• Steps to build a persona that works for the real world 🔒

• Dear Budi: What's the difference between PM and Product Designer

• 5 ways you can build design intuition 🔒

• Dear Budi: How do you structure your Slack channel?

• Why I think you should actively apply for a new job

• Dear Budi: How do you kick off the initiative? 🔒

• How can I coach other designers without driving them too much?

• You've done a design scoping. What's next? 🔒

If you want some topics to be prioritized, you can vote in this slido. Feel free to add a new question too.

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Budi Tanrim