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How to get shit done (when nobody reports to you)
Lessons in Product Management
People often ask me the worst part about Product Management. Here’s what I usually tell them — Nobody works for you or reports to you, but you are the one responsible for building the most amazing next product for your company. It’s totally unfair.
Product Management can sometimes feel very lonely. And building products can simultaneously be liberating as well as intimidating if you don’t know what you are doing.
My first few weeks as a product manager were full of self doubt. I was still coming to terms with the fact that there was no team I could call my own but I was somehow supposed to turn my ideas into reality working across multiple teams — Software development, Hardware engineering teams, User Experience folks, Mobile apps teams, Sales & Marketing, Operations & Supply Chain people, Product packaging. You name it.
But my biggest question (to myself) was
Why would people listen to me and work on my product ideas…
