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See you later, USA!

Posted on July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 by Ellery

(Image source: US Embassy & Consulate in Canada) I recently left the US to move back to Canada. In this article, I share my thoughts and reasoning on this move. I came to the US at the end of 2019 on an H1B visa, which I got on my 3rd attempt towards the H1B “lottery”….

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Transcending storytelling

Posted on June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 by Ellery

As a PM, I always see storytelling as one of the most important communication tools. Whether I am trying to get buy-in, build alignment, explain a strategy or share my learning, stories are usually a powerful way to retain attention and elicit empathy. But as I keep practicing storytelling, I am gradually realizing that as…

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Diagnose before Prescribe: A lesson in empathetic customer listening

Posted on May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 by Ellery

A few weeks ago, a customer told me that my product is so good that he plans to stop using it. A bit of context here: As you may know from my blog, I am the product owner of a wiki-as-a-service documentation web app at Microsoft. Our service offers multiple managed wiki sites to various…

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WFH, self-sustainability and P/PC balance

Posted on April 5, 2020April 25, 2020 by Ellery

As we enter an extended WFH (Work From Home) period of time, I’ve become increasingly aware of the importance of self-sustainability. Self-sustainability, a sense of confidence in leading an effective life completely by myself, relies on something called P/PC balance. In this article, I share some learning about these concepts from the past month of…

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Fuzzier language, better UX

Posted on February 17, 2020April 25, 2020 by Ellery

This is a story of a customer psychology analysis. It led me to choose less precise language in a product UI, and achieve better user experience. It started when my dev partners found an internal API limitation in a web app we own. This API limitation was causing a data visualization dashboard feature to throw…

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Building product bandwagon with early adopters

Posted on January 22, 2020April 25, 2020 by Ellery

This is a story where I had to re-think why my product was successful. A few months ago, I created a web app at Microsoft. It was designed to host internal service documentation for a large org in Windows team. I built the business case and product roadmap, then worked with a team of engineers…

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Being a remote PM: pros & cons

Posted on December 15, 2019April 25, 2020 by Ellery

In this post I share my experience as a remote PM. Being a remote PM is both a bundle of challenges and a passport to a lot of opportunities. Working remotely is without doubt a trending topic in the tech world today, but in my observation most remote workers (in long-term remote arrangements) are engineers….

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