Product Manager Position recognition: Personal positioning of product managers

Article Description: can't help but spit the product manager this thing.

In advance, this article is my extreme word, so you have the right to see a fun, to criticize the discussion to despise to insult, with you, at the same time I accidentally scold you, you ah, also see to do it yourself.

Again, all this is not related to the company I work with, please do not take it personally.

Things are going to start looking for work from my senior, as the saying goes, "an idle youth, grow up to do it", watching the university four years apart from drinking to play with the band, as if nothing, did not learn what the ability to settle down, but again to see the graduation day will soon be approaching, and the skin is too thick to open teeth and home to ask for money , had to bite the bullet on the wisdom, 58, street network, such as a series of sites looking for work. I really don't know what I can do, so recklessly cast a resume, fortunately all went down the drain, so I was in the boundless career choice of the ocean to see such a position "product manager", and then a look at the job requirements, basically no hard skills requirements, a man patted thigh "I do!" This is my ideal career ah! "Let alone the other, just" manager "These two words, listen to mention gas Ah! From then on, my ideal is to be a "product manager".

Later, the brothers think, since it is to do it, or a manager, somehow have to understand a bit of technology, at least not to do with the process of a few of the time, 're same page. So, buddy, I started to borrow a large pile of php,javascript,html,css and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on the technical book began to chew, gnawing at the discovery of inertia and the brain of the past few years to make me this gnawing book behavior, efficiency is very low, helpless, a saying once again saved me Paper on the end feel shallow, know this matter to preach ", yes, is to preach Ah!" Do! Buddy first when a programmer to go, learn to get the program to say, at least know how the product managers are how to do with the real product of the Buddies how to communicate Ah!

So, I chose the front end to develop this very promising career, as my first formal occupation.

Fortunately, in my work in this environment, the front-end development of this position, the entry requirements are not high, not too hard to learn, and is in addition to the designer first to communicate with the Product manager, but also with the back-end of the brother Exchange, is the dream of the development of the category of jobs Ah!

Then, I will be in front of the development of this very promising career, for six months, until now.

After saying so much nonsense, the following began to officially spit.

In the end of the six months of time, I found that I often have some very irritable time. For example, to deal with the hateful IE6 and very difficult to make a shadow gradient and other effects, but more often, I found that my irritability is related to a career, that is, "Product manager." Note that "Product Manager", which is the final step in my career planning, has become one of the most boring jobs in my career beginning. Of course, this is a lot of prejudice, it should be only because my qualifications are too shallow, have not really met the product manager of my eyes.

In my mind of narrowness and Malice, many of the so-called "product managers" I have seen are roughly the image

1. No technology, not even knowledge of technology.

2. With such a little look at the mentality of the technical staff, that eye how to say? It's like an architect looking at a migrant worker's eyes.

3. Open mouth must take the "user Experience" "PV" "UV" and other nouns.

4. Obsessed with Apple products.

5. Sometimes it feels like the programmer is omnipotent.

Of course, this image is very narrow, so, you want to scold me spectators, please heartily put your most vicious language to throw! Maybe I will delete all of Yo!

I am certainly not very receptive to the image of a hindsight technician with ideals and ambitions and Center of love. Especially when there are simple little effects, such as small rounded corners or small shadows of two pixels, obviously can use CSS3 to do, at the same time IE 678 can do graceful downgrade processing, our lovely details Emperor constantly urged me to cut corners into pictures, shadow cut into pictures, to consider IE 678 user experience, etc. I just can't stand the sense of retrogression of this era. Obviously already walked into 21st century 10 years good, why can't progress a bit?! How much joy it is for him to know that a technician has succeeded in applying the new technology he has learned to his work. I think it would make him happier than to send him 100 bucks!

However, I have never been able to experience this joy ...

Every day I cut one after another rounded corners, with the back end of the brothers explain why the picture request will be so many, why the page Dom will be so much, why the page will load so slow, why YSlow review branch so low.

My dear Product Manager friends, you one mouthful a user experience, loading speed, is not a part of the user experience?

Besides, as a worker who makes products for users, is it not our responsibility to guide users to better browsers to gain an excellent experience? Do we have to pay for the rubbish left by the old and ugly predecessors, and pass on these ugly things for generations? Do we have to do all kinds of plagiarism, rapid development, rapid death, continuous duplication of work? Is it not good to finish a good product seriously?

You all say that Google + is good, Facebook is cool, but do you know that in Google and Facebook, a lot of things are the technical people, not the Yiyantang of the manager?

Alas, said for a long time, do not know what to say.

Feel in fact there are a lot to say, later to add it, wash and sleep.

Before you go to bed to add a bar, in fact, I still quite enjoy the technical work now, because I know, if others can not help you, to make the product you want the best way, is to do their own.

Good night.

Brother so sharp eyes, but it is a blind man!