What exactly is product management?
I dabble in some product development. W some varying degrees of success
What exactly is product management?
I dabble in some product development. W some varying degrees of success
Stolen directly from aha...
Product managers provide the deep product expertise needed to lead the organization and make strategic product decisions. They often analyze market and competitive conditions, laying out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on customer demands. The role spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides important cross-functional leadership — most notably between engineering, marketing, sales, and support teams.
The product manager is the person responsible for defining the why, when, and what of the product that the engineering team builds.
highhoppingworm wrote:
Stolen directly from aha...
Product managers provide the deep product expertise needed to lead the organization and make strategic product decisions. They often analyze market and competitive conditions, laying out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on customer demands. The role spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides important cross-functional leadership — most notably between engineering, marketing, sales, and support teams.
The product manager is the person responsible for defining the why, when, and what of the product that the engineering team builds.
So you're the guy that everyone complains to (or about)! Cool. ?
But seriously I hope it goes well for you!
James, I think it's cool that you put so much effort into replying to people's logs. Thanks for your insight.
Never has someone so succinctly summarized my life.
thats typically me when I am asked about what I do
Sounds like a pretty challenging job, highhoppingworm.
I manage a product development team and by far the most cross functional interaction that I have is with product management. Your role is absolutely critical to the future success of the business for sure. Very rewarding role for sure!
I still don’t know what HHW does. At first I thought it might be marketing/branding strategy (“where does this product fit into the marketplace and how did we get it into that position”); but it doesn’t sound like that after hearing more.
But most of that is on me as I’ve been in one industry (real estate) and one role (Transactional/development lawyer) my entire career (and since February am on only my second professional position 21 years into my career); so my understanding of business roles - especially the somewhat more nebulous ones - hasn’t been well developed.
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Goal: Sub 2:40 Philly Marathon
Mn - 3 @ 8:05s
Tu - 5 @ 6:50s
Wd - Off
Th - 4.5 @ 7:45s
Fr - AM: 2.5 @ 11:00s, PM: 4 @ 10:15s
Sa - Off (kayak ~1mi)
Su - 5 @ 8:00s (PM: 6mi walk)
Total - 24
Family Runs on Friday. Monday was first run in 15 days. Sticking to running on pavement for a while.
I think of a product manager as someone who owns the direction and financials of a specific product offering from a business... let's use an example...
I manage a technology product within my company. Said product is used to deliver insights to clients about their business and drive potential new sales. So... what do I ACTUALLY do....
1. Set strategic vision for the product. What does it do, how does it work, how does it show things to the clients, what does it show, etc.
2. Measure effectiveness - Think of owning the profit and loss statement of said product. I need to know how much this is costing the company, what the return on that investment is, what kind of revenue it's generating, etc.
3. Understand competition - What else is out there, should we be doing more?
4. Growth - How do I grow the return or the revenue or whatever my product generates.
5. Maintenance and Issue resolution - Maintain the technology, identify and make sure bugs get fixed. Etc.
Most of the time, you're working with other parts of the company... technology, finance, sales, implementation, customer service and others to talk about the product, what it's doing, how to fix issues, how to make it better, how to sell more of it, etc.
Pretty challenging job being the ringleader of the product. Anyway, that's my view.
Best way to describe it Smoove is that product managers in technology straddle engineers and the broader business. Engineers don’t build anything unless product tells them too, what product tells them to build is informed by larger corporate strategy, individual stakeholders (sales, customers etc), broad market trends etc. it’s kind of 1/2 strategy, 1/2 execution.
If letsrun had a product manager that product manager would evaluate the relative importance and effort of adding an edit button vs private messaging capability and then have an engineer build it, measure its success etc.
highhoppingworm wrote:
I work in product management. Made a switch of industry to biotech. It will be a steep learning curve to say the least.
Agree that there are some great weeks showing up here. Inspiring stuff.
Still plugging away over here with a generally cooperative left leg. Will post some comments tomorrow.
Please tell me that your product is genetically engineered worms that hop higher.
Sub 6:00 wrote:
highhoppingworm wrote:
I work in product management. Made a switch of industry to biotech. It will be a steep learning curve to say the least.
Agree that there are some great weeks showing up here. Inspiring stuff.
Still plugging away over here with a generally cooperative left leg. Will post some comments tomorrow.
Please tell me that your product is genetically engineered worms that hop higher.
Post of the week, for sure.?
Smoove - were there any concessions you made when training for an early fall marathon (Chicago) that you did differently because of the heat compared to running Boston or another longer, spring race?
Interesting topic on Product Management ... Were I work is still relatively small (altho growing at an Insane rate) .. so product management is still kind of a group effort .. what we will think will work etc... we have one product that is the vast majority of sales and the rest are just kind of pitch in around the edges for some certain niche markets.
How else would one increase worm population to augment soil nutrition in areas of high bird density?
highhoppingworm wrote:
Best way to describe it Smoove is that product managers in technology straddle engineers and the broader business. Engineers don’t build anything unless product tells them too, what product tells them to build is informed by larger corporate strategy, individual stakeholders (sales, customers etc), broad market trends etc. it’s kind of 1/2 strategy, 1/2 execution.
If letsrun had a product manager that product manager would evaluate the relative importance and effort of adding an edit button vs private messaging capability and then have an engineer build it, measure its success etc.
hahaha. Love the LetsRun example. There are so many features that can be added to the message board itself. Adding value to the broader website is a much larger discussion.
Woulda added features create more demand? I’m pretty sure LRC has their market tapped out already.
runrincerepeat wrote:
Woulda added features create more demand? I’m pretty sure LRC has their market tapped out already.
Great point.
I think there is some market to be tapped into with a better website design and engagement. Feel like the brothers can get more eye-balls on to the main website just by catering a little bit more to the 2:45 male marathoner or 3:00 female marathoner. Example feature: How about a coaching platform? There are so many known/unknown coaches here, who can find a place for providing their services.
For the features on the forum, it is going to be primarily for ease of use for the existing customer base.
The other option is maybe going the psedu-anonymous route (registered users to post only) - they might get a bigger customer base just with that change. I was very leery of posting here with the complete free-for-all, still have only posted a handful of times on other threads. I don't know the ad-earning model well enough to comment on why they have kept the purely anonymous model.
highhoppingworm wrote:
How else would one increase worm population to augment soil nutrition in areas of high bird density?
Note that Early Birds expect to have their quotas satisfied within a certain time frame, and they may be enticed to spend a premium for that privilege. Peak pricing is the way to go, I believe. It may iron out problems in the supply chain for Hungover Birds and Birds-Between-Gigs who tend to flood the marketplace later in the day.
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