Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers | Heavybit

Going from APM → PM → SPM, you can keep doing similar things with deeper sophistication, more subject matter expertise, and better execution. But continuing to pursue those things will actually get you stuck at the Product Lead transition and you'll never break through to the next level.

Where should PM roles sit? Could be a GM or reporting CPO to CEO structure. Once you are 4 or 5 PM, there has to be a product lead to set the culture.

1. Engineers have become inefficient: The engineering team has grown too large to prioritize and self-coordinate projects; a PM adds efficiency (e.g. multiple Layer 1 protocols and EVM solutions). 2. The product experience is complex or critical to traction: The product suite is large and the UX is complex/consumer-facing, as in gaming (e.g. t... See more

IDEA 4- There are three levels of product, if you are not aligned you make mistakes, you can not communicate, and you do not understand, even between two smart good intentional people. Level 1: Impact level: i.e Product review - you represent the CEOLevel 2: Execution level: Level 3: Optics Level: Creating awareness for the impact and the exec... See more