Kassen Qian

Fixed time, variable scope.

You can ship product like Figma, with this Coda doc

We expect every product manager to be actively talking with customers and really spending a lot of time understanding customers. But it’s not just a product management thing. Engineers are expected to be talking with customers as well.

Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and confidence. Bad product managers have lots of excuses. Once bad product managers fail, they point out that they predicted they would fail.

The absence of one or more is almost certainly correlated with weak product organizations.

Vision & Strategy: You own the vision, strategy, and roadmap. You know the market, our users, the product, and the competition. You drive alignment: If I ask 5 different people what you’re building and why, I’ll get one answer.