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Kassen Qian
1. Shipping - The most basic need that a PM satisfies is shipping features. This involves day-to-day tackling of large and small decisions that block the successful release of a new feature.
Connie Kwan • Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers | Heavybit
Good product managers think about the story they want written by the press. Bad product managers think about covering every feature and being really technically accurate with the press.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager | Andreessen Horowitz
Another one of the biggest benefits of a written PR/FAQ is that it enables the team to truly understand the specific constraints and problems that would prevent a new product idea from being viable and aligning on them.
Cedric Chin • Product Development as Iterated Taste
Fixed time, variable scope.
doriantaylor.com • Agile as Trauma
Honesty & Culture: You build trust, credibility, and respect with the team.
Michael Siliski • The Role of a Product Manager
Basic structures cannot be composed into larger structures unless they themselves are internally consistent, and so the creation of software, just like any artifact of language, is naturally incremental.Software is a very verbose, very precise incantation of how an information system ought to behave.
doriantaylor.com • Agile as Trauma
6. Always Be Grooming New Leaders: Articulate the mission early in candidate interviews. Hire listeners that display intellectual curiosity. Offer high-performing PMs opportunities to onboard others.