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Product Managers: Survival Guide

Product managers are the Linchpins of their organizations. They Orchestrate the exchange of ideas, conduct collaborative Brainstorming sessions, and ensure that vital data reaches its destination. As PM, you’re the one building a shared understanding of what’s going on. Product is the connective glue. They literally fill the cracks of everything, says Pichler, a prolific product management writer and consultant. Pichler's diagram scratches the surface of the many responsibilities often assigned to

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Filling the cracks of everything: Product Management communication x1000

Engineering needs the details of a customer interview collated and summarized. Marketing needs to know when to Reshoot the Screenshots for their collateral. Ux needs the test Login credentials so they can run a usability test. Can you jump on a call as well?

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Product Managers: Get Regular

Meet the Stakeholders and build a shared understanding by bringing a cadence to meetings. And share Metrics regularly — versus constantly putting out fires — that can save your sanity as a PM. No more panicked ‘ I need Metrics for the board deck! ’.

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Communicate Product Vision More Clearly — to Everyone

Product vision is the Overarching goal, the reason for creating the product in the first place. You can’t afford to have marketing and sales get hung up on the details, when what they really need to know are the benefits and Differentiators of your product or update. To deliver the kinds of infor...

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Day-to-Day Project Management Communication

Zapier is another extremely useful tool PMS can use to automate tasks between Apps like Basecamp, slack, Google docs, Trello, and Gmail. Keeping tabs on how everyone is doing in real-time, so you can coach, Troubleshoot, and Problem-Solve efficiently is made much easier when you can see all of yo...

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Product Management is a Tough Job, but Somebody’s Gotta Do it

Product managers build a shared understanding of the what, when, who, why and how behind each product and update. The quality a PM needs most is beyond technology’s ability to achieve.

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Tear down data silos — if you can

Transparency with data is a huge trend in business right now. Companies like radar use notion to create public Dashboards anyone in the company can check at any time. If you can tear down the data silos, you might just eliminate the need for holding meetings. When live data is available to everyo...

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Product is about saying the same thing over and over again to make sure people understand it.

JOHN CUTLER - PRODUCT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

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