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2. Strong Product Leadership: in strong product companies, the product leaders are among the most impactful leaders in the company.

1. The Role of Technology: in strong product companies, technology is not an expense, it is the business.

3. Strategic - You have PMF and a 2-3 year runway. Your Strategic PM, usually director level or VP level, will take your company's overall long-term vision and lay out the pathways that pave your way towards that. These pathways involve major decisions that could alter the company's future.

Execution & Impact: You know what needs to be done now and what can wait, and you focus the team on the key priorities. You define progress and impact, measure them, and maximize results.

How can we understand the different types of value that PMs of different levels bring to the table and use that information to effectively build a PM organization?

The PR/FAQ process merely increases the odds that your product would succeed; it doesn’t guarantee it.

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.

You’re an engineer: companies want PMs who can roll with engineers, speak the same language, grasp the technical concepts (and problems and opportunities) quickly, and by so doing gain the respect and trust of the people actually moving bits around. The best PMs are culturally engineers