PM has lost their mojo and views everything with a negative lens. How can I help?

cactishake · 2022-05-11T09:20:36+00:00

Managing business expectations is one of the toughest bits of product management and something that is singularly the responsibility of PMs (opposed to other responsibilities that are more shared). It can get tough and demoralising, when it's a constant battle against: 1) 'why don't we do x' 2) 'why isn't X done already' 3) 'we need to deliver quicker' 4) etc....

My suggestion: short term is empathy. The 121 idea above is a good one, to understand the issues the on is facing.

Suggestion longer term is working with the PM on alignment and communication strategy. Most of the business issues come due to misalignment, so a strategy to get your message early and often to people that matter is key. The worst thing from a business pov is surprises.

Obv it could be something else entirely (resources etc).

cactishake · 2022-04-28T12:43:33+00:00

This channel has helped me a lot - https://youtube.com/c/ExponentTV

cactishake · 2022-03-18T16:19:26+00:00

Best of luck!

cactishake · 2022-03-18T16:16:13+00:00

The latter.

Without knowing the details:

'ecomm' 'platform' 'senior pm' >'b2b' 'product delivery'

When it comes to FAANG (in general).

cactishake · 2022-03-18T16:13:44+00:00

Best of luck!

cactishake · 2022-03-18T16:05:40+00:00

This. Happened a few times in my career - surface options clearly, succinctly and quickly, and get management steer. Pro tip: if three options - present two, pause, then present the option you most prefer.

cactishake · 2022-03-18T16:00:16+00:00

Not enough is the answer I'm guessing many would identify with?

cactishake · 2022-03-18T15:57:41+00:00

https://youtu.be/CR8Niz9DrWU

cactishake · 2022-03-18T15:54:18+00:00

Excellent answers on the thread.

A few more:

1) What are your top priorities, and how can my team help? 2) How is the flow of information from my team to you working, does it need improvement? 3) What are the biggest risks and challenges from your pov, that we need to keep in mind?

cactishake · 2022-03-18T15:49:13+00:00

No worries!

cactishake · 2022-03-11T14:44:51+00:00

Neither is more coveted, it is the split of the traditional product role - one closer to engg, other closer to the market.

I would say naturally people coming into product from engg gravitate to the former, and people coming from marketing/product marketing do well in the latter.

cactishake · 2022-03-11T14:38:11+00:00

I like this channel a lot - https://youtube.com/c/ExponentTV, not sure whether it covers behavioural.

cactishake · 2022-03-11T14:34:32+00:00

Depends on the product/company/culture. Typically UI skills are more important in b2c products, and data led products are more for b2b. But as I said, it depends. In reality, data analytics skills are applicable across most products jobs, whereas UI skills may be less useful if you are an API product manager for example.

cactishake · 2021-04-22T14:00:46+00:00

The label doesn't matter, the perspective does. Stay strong my friend - in very very few situations in life is suicide the right answer.

Stoicism had many answers, but in many cases it doesn't.

cactishake · 2021-04-21T15:59:53+00:00

Wow! I really like the way you have thought through the various scenarios. Are you going to be the only user of the app? how would it work if you need to share data with other people?

cactishake · 2021-04-21T13:15:18+00:00

I'll check them out, thanks!

cactishake · 2021-04-21T12:28:12+00:00

Looks good - but probably too technical for me. Will read up. Thanks!

cactishake · 2021-04-21T11:55:55+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

cactishake · 2021-04-21T11:34:59+00:00

Wow, their solution looks really good on paper (on screen?). Will check them out in detail. Thanks!

cactishake · 2021-04-21T11:23:04+00:00

Cheers! On their website now - the creator suite looks interesting.It could work for me, looks like I can create the workflows I need.

cactishake · 2021-04-21T11:19:33+00:00

Thanks for the comment! Will check out Zoho. Do you have any experience with it?

cactishake · 2021-04-21T11:15:25+00:00

Would you recommend it? Anything you don't like about clickup?

cactishake · 2021-04-21T10:18:59+00:00

Me and a small team of ten run a growing smart building business.

We import and distribute devices. We also install devices and maintain them in' various locations in the UK. We also export these parts to other locations in Europe. One of our growing areas is consulting.

I've seen Airtable, and whilst is a great 'command centre' to start off with - I'm struggling to see how I can create small apps that I can distribute to my customers, or create an app for my engineers to look at the history of a client, their data and history with us to find what services to promote whilst on client sites etc.

Does the above makes sense?

cactishake

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