Product Management (Day 188)

To be a good product manager takes so much work.

1. Research and compare the products on the market, if any
2. Listen to the stakeholder on the product requirements
3. Have a high level review with the engineering team, and other departments involved, estimate on the cost and benefits
4. Propose what features to include and what not to include
5. Convince each department and stakeholders to buy-in on the decision
6. Design the metrics to track and follow up on the implementation
7. Draft up edge cases and QA plan
8. Prioritize features and define impacts with existing product
9. Manage the entire development cycle and develop release plan
10. Post release metrics reporting and bug reports, etc.

I probably omitted many more steps. Kudos to great product managers.

My all time favorite product manager is Louis Topper when we were working in Massdrop.

I learned the most from Jay Stansell and his organization: Product Coalition.

If you want to learn how to be the "evil" yet "successful" product person, this is the bible in Silicon Valley: Hooked