Trying to Product

Mistakes We Made as Product Managers


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Mistakes We Made as Product Managers

Just because you are a product manager doesn't signify that your opinions carry all the weight, in actuality your team works with you and not for you. This is just a sneak peek of the many mistakes we make as product managers. We all make thousands of mistakes and as a product manager, inherently, part of the role is making mistakes. We should constantly be learning from them, trying to be better, and improving all sorts of different attributes of being a product manager. 

Join Parv and Alex as they chat about:

  • How under communication as a PM breeds dependencies [01:29]
  • Pitching an  idea backed up with strong data rather than just intuition [05:54] 
  • The common thought that roadmaps are locked [12:13]
  • Knowing your KPIs and levers you can pull to hit the metrics [13:25]

… and so much more! 


To Connect with Parv:

Twitter:https://twitter.com/ParvSondhi 

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/parvsondhi/ 


To Connect with Alex:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexcox245 

Email: [email protected] 


Quotes

Always make sure to communicate very frequently, even if you think it's the most simple, mundane piece of information, it could be a relatively high-impacting piece of information for someone else. 


If you don't understand the product, there's nobody who's going to have that knowledge.  You're the PM, you should hold as much of the information as possible.



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Trying to ProductBy Parv Sondhi and Alex Cox