They don’t take all the product team minutes, they don’t project manage the various functions, they are not gophers for engineering. Good product managers don’t get all of their time sucked up by the various organizations that must work together to deliver right product right time. Barksdale doesn’t make these kinds of excuses and neither should the CEO of a product. Not enough funding, the engineering manager is an idiot, Microsoft has 10 times as many engineers working on it, I’m overworked, I don’t get enough direction. A good product manager knows the context going in (the company, our revenue funding, competition, etc.), and they take responsibility for devising and executing a winning plan (no excuses).īad product managers have lots of excuses.
The are responsible for right product/right time and all that entails.
Microsoft product manager full#
A good product manager takes full responsibility and measures themselves in terms of the success of the product. A good product manager is the CEO of the product. Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and confidence. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document.
Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers.
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