I love Product Management. Itās one of the few roles where you directly impact peopleās lives while making money for a meaningful business.
Product was my first job, and itās been a job Iāve been doing for the past 15 years. I was fortunate to have worked for brands likeā¦
Weāve all been there, youāre in a job interview, and the interviewer asked you an interview question you donāt have an answer for.
Flustered, you spit out the first thought that came into your mind. ā¦
Being a Product Manager in the B2B space is not easy. š®
Itās tough to find customers for interviews, there are multiple users to build for, and your customers takes months to make a purchase decision.
So how do you succeed as a B2B product manager? In this post, Iāllā¦
Breaking into Product Management is not easy. The competition is high, and most roles require you to have 2ā3 years of experience before applying.
But āHow do you get experience without getting the job?ā
This is this the āChicken and Eggā question that has stomped a lot of aspiring PMsā¦
The term āProduct-Market Fitā can be baffling for a lot of new Product Managers.
The phrase sounds great in theory, but in reality, finding product-market fit raises more questions than it answers:
When I started in the Product Manager role, Iād spent hours googling terms like: āHow To Be a Great Product Managerā or āWhat does a Product Manager do?ā.
Iād read blanket advice like: āTo be a great PM, you must Communicate Visionā but how do you likeā¦ ācommunicate visionā?
Soā¦
Working with developers can be intimidating. If you donāt have a tech background, the jargon they use can go way above your head.
Early in my career, Iād hide my insecurities by writing a product spec as detailed as I can. Forcing my developers to give an estimate based onā¦
āThatās just a feature.ā ā the ultimate trigger words for any Product Manager.
This piercing phrase is often an accusation that your idea is not worthy of solving a big enough problem.
This dilemma confused me for a long time and gave me a lot of imposter syndrome. ā¦
As a product manager, we work with multiple teams to define requirements for our products. A Product Spec is a communication tool we often use to get everyone on the same page.
Back in the days, weād use a product requirement templates like a BRD (Business Requirement Document) or aā¦
Weāve all been there, your team spent weeks cooking up an awesome design experience for your product.
You set up a design review session to present the work to your boss, but he/she ripped it into shreds:
