The job description is the same. The context is completely different. At a large company, product management is about navigating process. There's a structure, a roadmap cadence,...
PM job descriptions list artefacts. Roadmaps, requirements, specs, OKRs, presentations. They make the role sound like a documentation job. The artefacts are the visible output. ...
The PM to product leader move is framed as more responsibility. More scope, more reports, more strategy. The actual shift is the opposite. It's about giving up the work that got...
Most PM advice is generic. Be more strategic. Talk to users. Use data. The advice isn't wrong. It's just not specific enough to act on. Four moves that consistently produce outs...
Most feedback is received badly. Not because the person delivering it was bad at it — although they often are — but because the receiver's instincts get in the way before the me...