Great Content. I call Product Management, an "MBA-in-practice". As a PM you will be exposed to every problems and these problems touch every fields of a company. Another thing is while an MBA is certainly a nice-to-have, the reality is what you learn in a MBA is different to the reality of the organization you work. Each organization has a set of hidden rules that you can only discover while working there.
Great content! Thanks for the information. I have a question related to higher education as a Product Manager; what courses/certifications would you recommend for continued learning?
Great content. I have a question (not entirely sure on how to put it). I got my first job as a PM at a startup (3 months now) and there's so much pressure to make sales. There was no proper research on the value and business risk of the product or even a market research to discover users. I feel like I came into a mess and literally not sure how to go about this. Especially with the product being built for over 9 months now (it's been impossible to convince the management that this product isn't gonna work out the way they hope). Ohh and there's no business unit or marketer whatsoever. What do you think? How would you handle the situation?
Oof. Yeah. I've actually been in the same scenario and it's awful. I inherited a product that was a pet project of the founder. No developer. No marketer. I was expected to do it all. Sales. Support. Etc. Couldn't convince them to put resources on it either even though they felt it was "promising". I actually landed up transitioning to another product within the company which worked out well. I know you mentioned it's a startup, so I doubt you could join a different product on the same team :-/ Can you try to do some customer interviews (kinda assuming the customer is obv not interested), record them, and replay them to whomever the product owner is to show them what you're working with? Collect all the customer snippets and insights that show that this product is not solving a problem they have? It also sounds like you may be at a sales-driven org rather than a product-led org. If that's true, sales will always come before product. Then you'd need to decide if you're OK with that and just put in some time until you can find your next role, or bounce and find a PM role at a product-focused org (which can be unfortunately rather rare).
안녕하세요! 영상 잘 보았습니다:) 저는 이미 대학은 졸업했는데, transfer 하는 경우에 대해서는 찾기 어려워서 여쭤봅니다. 새로운 분야에 대한 공부라, 대학원을 가는 것보다 3학년부터 학부 공부 후 진학하는 것을 생각 중인데요. 어드미션 사이트에서는 주로 학부 중 transfer 를 설명해서 혹시 아예 케이스가 없는 것인지 궁금해 질문을 남깁니다. 감사합니다!
Great Content. I call Product Management, an "MBA-in-practice". As a PM you will be exposed to every problems and these problems touch every fields of a company.
Another thing is while an MBA is certainly a nice-to-have, the reality is what you learn in a MBA is different to the reality of the organization you work. Each organization has a set of hidden rules that you can only discover while working there.
Great content! Thanks for the information. I have a question related to higher education as a Product Manager; what courses/certifications would you recommend for continued learning?
Great content. I have a question (not entirely sure on how to put it). I got my first job as a PM at a startup (3 months now) and there's so much pressure to make sales.
There was no proper research on the value and business risk of the product or even a market research to discover users. I feel like I came into a mess and literally not sure how to go about this. Especially with the product being built for over 9 months now (it's been impossible to convince the management that this product isn't gonna work out the way they hope).
Ohh and there's no business unit or marketer whatsoever.
What do you think? How would you handle the situation?
Oof. Yeah. I've actually been in the same scenario and it's awful. I inherited a product that was a pet project of the founder. No developer. No marketer. I was expected to do it all. Sales. Support. Etc. Couldn't convince them to put resources on it either even though they felt it was "promising". I actually landed up transitioning to another product within the company which worked out well.
I know you mentioned it's a startup, so I doubt you could join a different product on the same team :-/
Can you try to do some customer interviews (kinda assuming the customer is obv not interested), record them, and replay them to whomever the product owner is to show them what you're working with? Collect all the customer snippets and insights that show that this product is not solving a problem they have?
It also sounds like you may be at a sales-driven org rather than a product-led org. If that's true, sales will always come before product. Then you'd need to decide if you're OK with that and just put in some time until you can find your next role, or bounce and find a PM role at a product-focused org (which can be unfortunately rather rare).
@@Speckled This has to be the most sincere reply I've ever gotten. Thank you so much.
안녕하세요! 영상 잘 보았습니다:)
저는 이미 대학은 졸업했는데, transfer 하는 경우에 대해서는 찾기 어려워서 여쭤봅니다. 새로운 분야에 대한 공부라, 대학원을 가는 것보다 3학년부터 학부 공부 후 진학하는 것을 생각 중인데요. 어드미션 사이트에서는 주로 학부 중 transfer 를 설명해서 혹시 아예 케이스가 없는 것인지 궁금해 질문을 남깁니다.
감사합니다!