As a product manager, comfort with decision-making is critical. If you can't make decisions and say no, you won't enjoy or succeed in product management in the long term. I agree you should try things and learn. However, you also need to be realistic. Product management is an amazing and rewarding career. I'd encourage everyone to consider it. Thanks for sharing your insights!

As an intern product manager at early age startup, the way I deal with imposter syndrome and weight of decision making is just... by following the best product management practice that is widely adopted by other product manager as well. For example design thinking would mean that it's better to always conduct research before decision making even if you're short on time (coz you will always be short on time at early age startup 😅). One of the example is conduct freemium of the product if it's easy to build but costly to produce at wide scale, then try to see how much people convert to sales even after you gave them limited discount for using/finishing the freemium. If the conversion low means it's not ready and you might want to know why by just simply using survey or user interview. Those research can also be a stored qualitative data which may be used for future decision making so avoiding research by saying "there's no time" is a no way to go IMHO. Just read many blog and article about product management, macro ecenomy (Amplitude Report), market trend and stay grind. Remember that you are payed based on how replacable you are, which mean if you're still working, means nobody also good enough to replace you currently. Btw loving your video, and the art of context switching is the most annoying part when stakeholder look at you and they saying stuff like "didn't i told you about this just 3 days ago". Like bruhh PM have to remember many things, even if we note it down pliss be patience if we forgot something hahaha

@TheProductPup

Жыл бұрын

Bruh, love and agree with everything you said!

@ultimateguru2

3 ай бұрын

Dude world has adhd write small and concise comments

There would be probably one more point to add which applies especially for PMs. And this is public speaking and presentations/demos - specifically in customer facing situations. The frequency is obviously depending on the product/industry and company one works in but in generell terms, PMs have to present a lot right down to even doing sale pitches to customers. People who don't like this either have to find a place in product management to avoid such things or will have a hard time feeling happy about the role.

@TheProductPup

Жыл бұрын

Such a great point! I can’t believe i missed this. Thanks :)

Indeed a chit-chatty video, I let it play while I had my Indian lunch. Leftover as well. Biryani. :)

Great insight! Thanks for this

This was super helpful! I am trying to break into the industry coming from a Finance background, with little to no direct product experience. Great job!

Thank you Anika ! This video reaffirmed why I actually like product management

@TheProductPup

Жыл бұрын

Love to hear that!

Thank you for sharing the information. It's very hard to find such a genuine piece of content these days. Really appreciate it♥️

@TheProductPup

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for commenting :)

Thank you again. A UX designer here. I wanted to know if I am ready for Product Management emotionally. I think you really covered most of it. Keep making such videos. Thank you

Glad I came across your videos, my question is, Is there any Great difference between a Product Marketing Manager and a Product Manager?

Decisions!

Hey Anika, thanks for your thoughts in this video. I was wondering if you could consider two things: 1. Doing a video on user research and the different types of user research 2. Splitting videos like this into sections so that in the future I can easily scrub through and get back to a point I thought might be important to listen to again If not, no worries, just something I thought might be helpful for me and possibly others. Thanks again!

@TheProductPup

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! 1. sections added - I always put them in, and forgot to with this one. 2. research is on my list of upcoming videos soon!

@smultron

Жыл бұрын

@@TheProductPup thanks a bunch, looking forward to it 😊

Eggplant! Salad! Only crackheads like Product managers can see this as a normal food🤣

@TheProductPup

Жыл бұрын

lol ok

Thank you for sharing, I am a software developer and learning product management. Being a software developer I do not interact with different types of people, it is just my team members I interact with. Also, I hesitate to say no. Whatever instructions I get from senior management I do follow it and I never say no. I identify these to be my weaknesses. I want to overcome them and want to become a good PM.

Wow... this has been an incredibly insightful and timely video for me! I've got all of the ones you mentioned except for #6: technology. I'm coming form a client facing background and I've always thought about tech products as a way to satisfy users' needs. That's what I care about.. whether it's going to be built on ruby vs javascript wouldn't matter to me as long as I understand the pros/cons of each approach. For this reason this video has really made me question if I am "geeky" enough to be a PM.... an important decision to make as I'm currently interviewing for two very different roles and one is very PM focused 😮

a 25 years old teen talking about Product Management 😂.. the first 5 minutes of the video she is talking about her salad.. I will never hire a Product Manager younger than 35 years... haha funny teen

@TheProductPup

8 ай бұрын

You are going far 😉thanks for helping boost my video with your comment!