Chris Butler
Chris Butler

Sep 21, 2021

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Product operations is about incentivizing glue work

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What is core work that should be incentivized for product operations?

In this article I make the case that “glue” work is exactly that.

However, it is not doing what product people consider a waste of their time.

Product operations is about incentivizing glue work

At the POPs Summit, I hosted a panel on the "Pillars of Product Operations." This article outlines the discussion from…

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