A Smart Bear » The “Great” Product Manager, a.k.a. the Impossible Product Manager
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A Smart Bear » The “Great” Product Manager, a.k.a. the Impossible Product Manager
A product manager is someone who both has the social skills to sit with customers and is (or can learn to be) technical enough to know what can and cannot be done technically.
Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
the product manager has to be a master negotiator and communicator. They have to influence people without managing them. They have to ask questions and listen and use their superpower—empathy for the customer, empathy for the team—to build bridges and mend road maps.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
However, the ultimate role of product management is making or suggesting trade-offs between the pristine, platonic ideal of beauty that the design team wants, the technical pizzazz engineering desires, the “just give me some shit I can sell” of sales, and the “this may be risky” of legal (these examples are all purposefully exaggerated).
Elad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
5. Make Team Management Your Highest Priority Product: To be a good product team manager, you need to have been a successful product manager first. "As a group product manager, my job is to help PMs own their ideas, work with stakeholders, get people on board and amplify their insights. Our product managers are my products."