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Deborah QavzemiChief Product Officer · Essays & perspective

Deborah Qavzemi / Chief Product Officer

The preparation task behind the product's easy answer

Perspectives from a life in leadership.

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Programme planning and product judgement

  1. Programme planning and product judgement5 min read

    A spare-time number is only useful when the whole programme is counted

    Our preview left fourteen minutes free because it counted only the main script. The complete plan needed thirty-two minutes in a thirty-minute window.

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Professional collaboration and version choice

  1. Professional collaboration and version choice5 min read

    Collaboration does not require the rehearsal copy to keep moving

    Some producers wanted a live draft; others needed a stable edition. The product had to support both tasks without silently changing the copy a presenter relied on.

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Preparation outputs and professional boundaries

  1. Preparation outputs and professional boundaries5 min read

    A presenter copy should be designed for the person who will read it

    A single convenient export mixed different purposes. Separating production notes from reading copy required us to define the task before simplifying the download.

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