The Accidental Product Manager Archive

Category: Career

Ok, so there really is no pride here: I’ve been fired. Not only have I been fired, but it turns out that I’ve been fired

So before we dive into my tale of woe, let’s first make sure that we are all on the same page at least in terms

So here’s a quick question for you: what is the shortest time that you’ve ever worked at a product manager job? Product managers are generally

So you are in the process of starting your brand new product manager job. Congratulations. Now what? What is the first thing that you are

So we all know that product manager always have to be prepared to deal with the situation that both they and their product find themselves

As product managers we like to work hard. The reason that we like to do this is because we all believe that the harder we

So here’s my story: at this point in my career I’ve worked for 8 separate companies. Four of them were enormous multinational firms and four

In the end, it turns out that product management is all about more than just creating a good product development definition, you have to be

Being a product manager is a hard job – creating a product development definition is not a simple thing to do. In order to do

Your job title is “product manager”, just exactly how much of that management stuff do you do? For that matter, have you ever been taught