2016 can be counted as the first year I actually turned into a product manager. Although in the previous company also hangs the title of the product manager, but more does is manages the development team, does is the project manager's daily.
When the product manager really did find that the pressure is indeed not the general big. I dare not say that the direction of the whole company is determined by me, but my wrong plan does have a big impact on the company as a whole-whether it's a team feud caused by poor co-ordination, or a waste of company human resources, or an omission that has a negative effect on the external sector. Every mistake that a product manager makes seems to be instantly magnified and caught off guard.
Remember a version of the iteration, the recommended function test is not sufficient, recommend the merchant only to do one, think the recommendation interface is no problem. The results of the real online found: The second added to the business incredibly not recommended. But the business is still on the job, each business we have to do a conference. The final temporary contingency plan can only be the first business first, and then add new businesses. Soon the first merchant found out and called and said, "Are you going to work with another merchant to give us T?" ”。 The impact of this event is great, and the company is going to have to pay a lot more for the PR work, which is actually just a development write dead parameter, while testing is not enough to cause. In the final analysis, this is the product manager's problem, the control of product quality is also a product manager important work content.
Today, new lessons have been learned. When writing a document, in order to quickly not review. The result is that after modifying the scheme, some functions are inconsistent, there are several typos, several automatically generated numbers are discontinuous. These seemingly careless problems add up to a lot of mistrust for others. When a product manager loses the trust of others, his work is hard to advance. Because the product manager is not a real manager, all the participants can actually do what you call "listening and not listening". And the basis for others to be willing to listen and listen is: They trust you, and they think it's right to do what you say. Once the cornerstone of trust is lost, everyone disunity, not to mention co-operation.
Therefore, a product manager of a large character quality must include: careful. And "Careful" these two words, say simple, single really want to do, how difficult also. First of all, you need to have a holistic mindset that can be accurately split into tasks, there can be no omission; Secondly, each task in the process of propulsion, you have to control the key nodes, to ensure that the overall coordination; Finally, when the goal is achieved, you have to pay attention to product quality, what problems can be compromised, which issues are not to be compromised ... One piece of this pile, you have to carefully and carefully, the reason has been described above: because the product manager of a small omission is likely to lead to a great impact on the company.
The purpose of writing this article is to remember the lesson and learn from it.