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Good product management

Good product management

What is a product manager? What are the characteristics of a good product manager?

Roo Reynolds

March 12, 2015
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  1. ‘single wringable neck’ ?? responsible committed (but so is the

    rest of the team) clear point of accountable contact (not a great way to describe yourself to stakeholders)
  2. 1 - Putting users first ensuring the team makes decisions

    based on data and user research, not instinct or just scratching our own itches
  3. 2 - Bringing the most useful problem for the team

    to solve next having identified the most urgent things, the most useful things, the hardest things, what’s the current priority?
  4. 3 - Owning a prioritised backlog what are the next

    few things? planning ahead (a bit) not being the only one adding to backlog
  5. 4 - Not coming up with the solutions (that's the

    team's job) helping define testable hypotheses
  6. 5 - Listening. A lot. being constantly aware of user

    feedback, data, research, what's hurting users most, what the team needs, internal priorities, external pressures...
  7. 6 - Defending the team saying no to lots of

    requests, communicating upwards and outwards, shielding the team from noise
  8. 7 - Strong opinions, weakly held 1 having a clear

    vision, while still being able to change your mind 1 saffo.com/02008/07/26/strong-opinions-weakly-held