Host Jeff Plumblee interviews Jonathan Pu, a Senior Project Manager at Hinge.

Key Takeaways:

Hinge is a dating app intended to help you find your person. It is owned by Match Group. Jonathan shares an example of his previous work at Moody’s. He contrasts product management and project management. Working at a startup is different from working at Moody’s. At Hinge, project management is evolving.
Successful projects have quick iteration cycles and you learn quickly. When you become an industry stalwart, it’s about execution. Hinge is at the tipping point between startup and industry leader. Hinge’s project management is still very informal. Jonathan wants to see more predictability and disciplined planning.
Jonathan describes his best project experience as a product manager, consolidating legacy systems at Moody’s. He worked with a phenomenal project manager and his group got everything done as needed. Jonathan was like a project manager to his team. That inspired him to go into project management.
Jonathan talks about his mentee and how she transferred her project management mindset from task-oriented to people-oriented, putting her on the path to a successful project management career. Jonathan wishes he’d known early in his career that plans are very malleable and are intended to change.
Know where the value is for every stakeholder. If you’re able to see through the eyes of others and meet them where they are, you can begin to move them. Different circumstances require different tools. We need to adjust to the organization. There’s more than one way to do a job, Scrum, waterfall, or hybrid!

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Jonathan Pu of Hinge: Product, Program, and Project Management