Do you have any of these 3 questions that are common in the Product manager's work?

At the end of the week a product practice event, after the product marathon, the lecturer made a Product Manager There are 3 questions that you will often encounter in your work , which can be used as an interview preparation or as a problem library when recruiting new recruits.

The following is the author of the three questions to give two answers, one is idealized, one is grounded gas. Of course, the two answers are not the standard answer, the most open question is more about the product practice in the process of ways and means, and there is no single standard answer, all the answers in this article are for reference only.

1. you have a new team, different opinions on the current product, how do you respond to this situation?

ideal in PM

for the new product, first let the newcomer understand the development background and the basic situation of the product, and then according to the opinion of the new people to determine whether the evolution of the product is beneficial, if the new opinion is not valuable, but can not persuade the newcomer, let it give a solution, or form MVP product validation, using user feedback and data to demonstrate the effectiveness of its recommendations.

Connect to the atmosphere PM

In an industry or field of long-term work of the product people, the evolution of the product line may enter a fixed thinking mode, not as new thinking active, extensive, so the new suggestions for the improvement, first of all we have to actively accept.

Product Newcomer can ask a question, that the product in a certain aspect there must be some need to improve the place. Therefore, in response to the new product improvement suggestions, according to the new thinking direction, from its point of view, and through the simulation of the evolution of the sand table, judge according to the new suggestions whether there is a possibility of development.

Making a sandbox evolution here means that virtual inference through Product Manager experience is not MVP,AB test verification and other ways, why? Because there is no time, cost and experience. Any MVP,AB test is a labor cost, time cost, if your company, team, project does not support you to do scientific predictions, then through the virtual evolution to the experience of judgment, I believe in the new ideas put forward to the sand table deduction process, will be found in which can improve the direction, perhaps not the new question, but certainly can do some inspiration.

key points

(1) Learn to deny yourself

As a product manager, especially with a certain amount of work experience in the Product manager, are proud of, will believe that their design, their choice is right. But the true seal of God's products is only xiaolong, jobs and a few others. So, as a mass product manager, you must not be perfect and flawed. Therefore, in response to the suggestions made by others, we must first deny their modest acceptance, even if other people's advice is not entirely correct, but believe that through the advice of others can find a place to learn.

(2) Jump out of mind

After a long time in a certain industry, will be fixed in the circle, can not find more product innovation point, easy to cause the product iteration process lack of vitality and vitality.

At this time, suggestions for newcomers often come with new ideas and new insights from outside the industry. By fusing more new ideas, you can provide more thinking dimensions for the design of the product, and open a new door for yourself.

2. your team has a new Leader, and he has some different ideas about the product, how do you respond to this situation?

ideal in PM

Arguing with leader, arguing the evidence, explaining the unreasonable needs and opinions of leader , let the leader know his decision is incorrect, and give up.

of course, if leader must insist, then according to leader demand for product changes, after all, leader is your superior.

Connect to the atmosphere PM

Arguing with leader is not a good way to deal with it, because even if you do not,leader can find another product or a product to do what he wants.

instead of arguing with leader, it is better to evaluate it after receiving the demand, give the solution, development time and other leader concerns. Then according to the evaluation progress of the version update on-line, if The demand leader put forward by the market, the user verification effect is not ideal,leader will change according to the situation, the leader must be more than you experience, A higher vision, even if the leader is wrong will be in time to make up, otherwise how can become your leader.

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Execution Force

Any company would want an executive employee who is not bargaining with the leader when he or she is planning a task, but is evaluated according to the tasks assigned by the leader and arranged in a timely manner. Actual work, the competitor on a new service or new features, will not leave you time to discuss with the leadership of our products need this function or service, the correct way is to seize the time to catch up with the pace of competitors, first of all, the effect of good or bad later can be functional optimization or deletion.

3. How will you respond to the company's four times-fold increase in the product KPI You are currently responsible for ?

ideal in PM

communication and coordination with the leadership resources, the original ten million cost to complete The million indicators, then for the company's million indicators, Either add people or add costs.

If you have enough resources to set goals, why do you need to do it? Whatever a product manager can accomplish, why do you have to do it?

Connect to the atmosphere PM

The Great leader Chairman Mao once said that there are conditions to be on, no conditions to create conditions to go on.

so, in receiving leadership about promoting KPI indicator information, the first thing to do is not to find leaders to resources, bargaining. It is important to think about how the leadership requirements of the data indicators to complete the task, here is recommended OKR Target Dismantling solution (details can be self-aware of relevant articles), according to the indicators proposed by the leadership, the indicators are dismantled, refined, The solution is proposed for specific refinement indicators, and the completion of each small goal will facilitate the completion of the final big goal.

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Dare to accept the challenge

Impossible is nothing! After receiving the task, learn to analyze the task, dismantling the task, do not come up with a resistance to the psychological, if through hard work or can not be completed, then perhaps the opportunity, resources, capacity for various reasons, but at least more than the first to say that the impossible is much better.

Source: Everyone is a product manager

Do you have any of these 3 questions that are common in the Product manager's work?