The most underrated skill of a Product Manager is being able to take the random collection of things that slyhe team wants to do and make it look like a cohesive roadmap.
06.02.2025 04:08
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The most underrated skill of a Product Manager is being able to take the random collection of things that slyhe team wants to do and make it look like a cohesive roadmap.
A PM making a roadmap is like a D&D Dungeon Master making an adventure;
1. Although they have a clear, planned, sequence of events, it’s understood that you need to be prepared to respond to change and be willing to improvise to get the best outcome
2. They’re both a fucking fantasy
It must be so hard for Teslas investor’s to asses the impact of Musk running DOGE.
On one hand, auto is a heavily govt supported industry and he’s got more access to a the President than possibly any CEO ever in history.
On the other hand, …jesus christ he said what???
Do you think the PMs of excel know how much power they have?
Make a bad mistake there and you could end whole economies.
PMs: Users hate dark patterns like aggressive notifications and upgrade prompts and they can’t achieve long term growth.
Duolingo PMMs: Hold my owl
Hell is doing a Vision brainstorming session for your product with stakeholders that still use fax machines
A less talked about benefit of opportunity-solution trees is how easy it is to engage with stakeholders using them.
Before, I would be confused by stakeholders bad decisions, but now I can watch in real time as they turn my opportunity tree into a tangled shrub.
What I like about Bluesky as a product is its growth strategy is that Jack Dorsey has met Elon Musk.
If you're running A/B experiments, I'd recommend running some A/A experiments first. A/A experiments give 2 main benefits;
1. It provides valuable baseline data on your product metrics, particularly variance
2. You can spend weeks doing literally nothing while looking like you're shipping things