last highlighted date: 2023-11-24

Highlights

  • They are not part of the product team; they manage the product team. Engineering teams don’t consider Good Product Managers a “marketing resource.” Good product managers are the marketing counterpart of the engineering manager.
  • Good product managers don’t give direction informally. Good product managers gather information informally.
    • Note: gathering information vs giving direction
  • Good product managers decompose problems. Bad product managers combine all problems into one.
  • Good product managers define their job and their success. Bad product managers constantly want to be told what to do.