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Best of 2022: What Makes Product Management Difficult?
FromHow To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem
Best of 2022: What Makes Product Management Difficult?
FromHow To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board members Red Russak and Soumeya Benghanem welcome Jeremiah Nelson (Motorola Solutions) to talk about becoming a good PM in a difficult environment. Product management is a job that requires teamwork, team effort, and collaborative planning to successfully launch and eventually sell a product. It can become a difficult task and extremely challenging but with the people in the team, nothing is impossible.
Support for How to Succeed in Product Management is brought to you by Apptentive, which enables product managers to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across the mobile customer journey. To learn more, go to Apptentive.com/UW.
What to Listen For:
00:00 Intro
07:46 When does product management become difficult?
10:46 What is the rubric that customers give you?
11:37 Indicators to help understand the customer’s rubric
15:19 Who should not be a PM?
20:12 Every PM owns the decision regardless of how it's made
27:09 You are not your product
29:49 What makes a better PM for API and technical products?
36:07 Get a detailed understanding of how things function
42:02 Goal-setting methods for a new project
46:24 Take care of yourself first
48:54 Being a PM is about the team you create
Support for How to Succeed in Product Management is brought to you by Apptentive, which enables product managers to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across the mobile customer journey. To learn more, go to Apptentive.com/UW.
What to Listen For:
00:00 Intro
07:46 When does product management become difficult?
10:46 What is the rubric that customers give you?
11:37 Indicators to help understand the customer’s rubric
15:19 Who should not be a PM?
20:12 Every PM owns the decision regardless of how it's made
27:09 You are not your product
29:49 What makes a better PM for API and technical products?
36:07 Get a detailed understanding of how things function
42:02 Goal-setting methods for a new project
46:24 Take care of yourself first
48:54 Being a PM is about the team you create
Released:
Oct 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
1: The Different Styles of Decision-Making: Today, in the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast; Jeff, Red, and Soumeya welcome a panel of experts on Product Management to discuss the importance of decision-making in the success of any product. The panel of experts, known and respected in t... by How To Succeed In Product Management | Jeffrey Shulman, Red Russak & Soumeya Benghanem