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Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler.
The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.
Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. (tweet)
Advice
> What is the hardest lesson you learned as a product manager?
When starting my company Complete Seating, we were focused on what problems hosts had in planning their night. When we would compare our solution to others it was very clear that someone had thought about what would be the perfect or beautiful way to solve the problem of managing tables. What they didn’t think about is how the human element added to the solution rather than hurt it.
In the end it is all about people. It is about the people you are building something for. It is about the people you are being paid by. It is about the people that you work with. If you are too caught up in building something for any other reason than people it probably doesn’t matter very much.
This is why user experience flows for great products will be very simple for the main case, but have a lot of interesting ‘edge cases.’ Humans are not computers so their usage isn’t ever neat. This is why it is so hard to replace legacy systems in place. All of the special cases are working against you.
More to Come
Over the coming weeks we will be speaking with and learning more from Chris Butler.
Thank you to everyone who participated, nominated, interviewed, AND passed on the word! The nomination period for The Best Product Person of 2017 has begun! Nominate your pick for The Best Product Person right now!
http://TheBestProductPerson.com
And, don’t forget, take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler. (tweet)
Enjoy!
Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
About ‘The Best Product Person’
The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy (http://tpgblog.com) and The Product Group (http://meetup.com/theproductgroup).
TBPP Recognizes 1 person each year, invites them to speak and share their knowledge and experience with the larger product community. The nominations can be submitted by anyone. And, if you are the first to submit the winning nominee, you too will be rewarded Over the course of the year, the various nominees are interviewed and the finalists narrowed down to: The Best Product Person of the year . The finalists are interviewed and evaluated for excellence in Product along the following lines… Becoming a Product Person, Your Product, Advice to Product People, and Future & Trends.
TBPP is both (1) the way the Product community gets together to recognize excellence amongst our ranks as well as (2) provide, to a large audience, insights into that excellence in a manner we can all learn from and leverage in our own Product journeys.
For more information about The Best Product Person award and past winners visit https://tpgblog.com/tbpp
About ‘The Product Group’
The Product Group is an opportunity for Product Managers, etc. to come together to meet, interact, and network. It’s an awesome way to meet fellow Product People in a laid-back, conversational environment within which sharing and learning can flourish and complement the knowledge base for all on a peer-to-peer basis. The NYC chapter of The Product Group meets the first Thursday of each month. If you are interested in a establishing chapter near you, please contact The Product Guy or The Product Group for more information. (https://tpgblog.com/theproductgroup/ )
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