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Megan Cook

Megan is head of product for Jira. Megan has been at Atlassian for just under 11 years.

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“Megan is head of product for Jira, which is used by 75% of Fortune 500 companies”

Speaker: Lenny Rachitsky▶ Watch at ~0:30approx.

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Win the decision before the decision meeting by looping stakeholders in early and staying open on the solution.

Reserve a recurring weekly slot with your key peers specifically to surface and resolve conflict early.

Make remote work productive by scheduling connection in bursts, protecting synced deep-work blocks, and banning status meetings.

Small standing peer pods that review each other's rough-draft work to build feedback muscle and trust.

Grow new products through five funded stages — wonder, explore, make, impact, scale — validating at each gate.

Allocate a notional $10 across your priorities to expose where your time actually goes versus where it should.

For every promising idea, ask where it could go in 3-5 years if it were 10x bigger — and let that reshape it now.

Win backing for unsexy work by starting small, showing it visually, making it easy for others, and proving momentum.

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