How to Get the Most Out of Your Product Manager
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The document discusses the challenges and expectations faced by product managers, highlighting complaints such as a short-term focus and lack of quality consideration. It outlines key demands for product managers, which include strategy, prioritization, and execution, emphasizing the importance of results. To maximize their effectiveness, it suggests clearly defining expectations and leveraging insights and visualization skills.
How to Get the Most Out of Your Product Manager
- 1. Getting the Most from your Product Manager A tale from the other side Adam Nash August 26, 2011
- 2. Product Managers Complaints • Too short term focused • Too metrics focused • Don’t define the “user” or “use case” well • Don’t care about quality • Want fast not great • Prioritize increments over transformation
- 3. How You See Yourselves
- 4. How You See Yourselves
- 5. How You See Yourselves
- 6. How You See Yourselves
- 7. How They See You
- 8. How They See You
- 9. How They See You
- 10. How They See You
- 11. How You See Them
- 12. How You See Them
- 13. How You See Them
- 14. How You See Them
- 15. How They See Themselves
- 16. How They See Themselves
- 17. How They See Themselves
- 18. How They See Themselves
- 19. What Makes a Great Product Manager Business UX Technology
- 20. What Do We Demand of Product Managers? • Strategy How do we win the game, and how do we keep score? • Prioritization What are the steps from here to there, and what order do we do them in? • Execution For this phase, what’s the list of what has to get done, and are we on track?
- 21. Results Matter • In the end, we judge product managers by whether they “win games” • They don’t play the game, but they are judged by the record of their products • They cover any gaps. No excuses. • Responsibility, often without authority
- 22. How do you get the most from them? • Explicitly require them to fill expectations: strategy & metrics, prioritization, execution • Recognize you’ll be more risk tolerant of radical change in some cases • Recognize you’ll be more risk averse around inconsistency or quality • Use your insights, user focus, empathy, and inspiration to avoid problems and to create new solutions • Visualization is your superpower. Over producing to frame discussions & decisions is often the right approach
- 23. PM & Design