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Building effective partnerships with PMs requires stepping outside of any frustration, ego, or resentment at being ignored, and building empathy. How to do that? Here is what we’re going to find out.
Article by Lindsey Wallace
How To Research So PMs Will Listen
- PMs are the most critical audiences for research, they are also often the hardest to convince, and the source of many of researchers’ frustrations and heartaches.
- Building effective partnerships with PMs requires stepping outside of any frustration, ego, or resentment at being ignored, and building empathy.
- The author shares:
- Some practices of working with PMs
- Questions to ask PMs and stakeholders
- The baseline expectation setting:
- Level set
- Set guardrails based on your role
- Ask for candid feedback and engagement
- No surprises
- When researchers and PMs are in conflict or in separate silos, neither role gets the value of the other, but strong researcher-pm partnerships can be game-changing for extending the strategic impact and influence of both design and research.
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- July 12, 2022
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