56 Product Manager Features

When I read Iamsujie's "Everyone is Product Manager", read the last mention of a foreign friend of the 56 characteristics, so I deliberately find out to see, feel quite interesting, I have ventured to turn the Chinese, of course, there are many deficiencies in the place.

You are might be a Product Manager if:

1.You ' ve created a roadmap through 2015 your plan should have been scheduled for 2015 years.

2.You can ' t remember sharable Pager than hours a week you may not remember when you work less than 70 hours a week.

3.You ' ve lost your hair (if you haven ' t consider yourself) You may be starting to turn your hair around.

4.At your annual customer summit, you stay late to setup and test products for the "next" while Sales Setupcl up a historic bar tab The first day of the customer's annual meeting, you charge the boss's strength to toss the arrangements, test products, even if those salespeople are doing other things (this place is not very accurate)

5.You used to be a programmer but were too extroverted you were a programmer, but you felt too outgoing.

6.You used to be a salesperson but were too introverted you were a salesman, but you felt too introverted.

7.You Use the customer interview techniques and your spouse to discover the root incorporated of misspelling problems for so and can build a "solution" ("That ' s Interesting...tell me more!" "Smack" You always use some of the techniques of user research to ask your partner a lot of questions and find ways to solve their problems.

8.You Wake up on night worried about getting your product ' s feature-set right or hitting your ship date you always wake up in the deep night, Worry about whether your product function is working properly or on time (this is not a good place)

9.You find competitive and Win-loss analysis Fun (ugh, I can ' t believe I ethically realized I find those things) You find it interesting to analyze competitive advantage and win-win.

10.You walk through the store and look in thinking "what problem does that solve?" You walk into a store, look at the products on the shelves, and you keep thinking, what can these things solve?

11.You do a SWOT analytical unreported making any major purchase make a SWOT analysis when doing any bulk purchase.

12.The last thing you can unreported you get to Sofitel and the first thing your do time you wake the????

13.You ' ve ever written ' The system prescribe ... "You must have written something like," How does this system look?

14.You implies have pager than HEP #1 priorities your priority work will be no less than five items.

15.You ' ve sat behind the one-way mirror in a focus group you've been in a one-way mirror after a focused group interview.

16.One or more of the following groups are pissed at You:sales, Development, QA, Tech Support, Marketing, or Operations. Special Bonus If you are in once. At least one or more of the following groups have expressed dissatisfaction with you: sales, research and development, testing, technical support, markets or operations, and if you mess with them, you're a tough one.

17.You Enjoy writing requirements that constrain easy way out from the programmer.

18.You ' ve actually learned how to thundering cats.

19.You own an iphone. You have an iphone.

20.You wonder how the iphone products manager prioritized all the possible features. You often wonder how IPhone product managers plan all of the possible functional points.

21.You wonder how many UB hours it took to create a new feature in your favorite Web You're always thinking about how much development time it takes to add a new feature to your favorite Web application.

22.You try to envision the next 3 design updates for any product, you can imagine each of the products you saw the next three upgrades featured

23.You thought in use Cases. You think with the user case

24.You ' re synch looking for a alternative flow of events. You're always looking for something different. Development process

25You can ' t live without omnigraffle or Visio. You don't think you can live without omnigraffle or Visio.

26.You had to reset expectations with management, customers, UB, and finance. You have to juggle management, user groups, developers and accountants.

27.You had to produce a WW product forecast for sales since tightly are too to do it.

28.You enjoy watching "How It ' s Made." You like to watch how It's made series programs.

29.You plan ' features ' for your children and have a ' roadmap ' for misspelling skill substituting you have growth plans for your children and expect them to have specific "features"

30.Your Wedding included a PowerPoint presentation. You're going to use PowerPoint at your wedding.

31.Major life events require a MS project file. Microsoft Project files in important events

32.You get "phantom buzzing" in your pocket time you forget your BlackBerry. If you forget to bring your BlackBerry, you'll hear a hallucination.

33.You ' ve talked to much customers in the last month than all of your executives combined. The number of users you have spoken to over the past month exceeds the number of all executives who have spoken.

34.Your Marketing Person Mchumo "U" technical...explain this to Me "then," ... now like I am 3 ... "When you communicate with marketing colleagues, they will tell you , you are too technical, you want to me as a 10-year-old child to explain to me, when you talk for a long time, they will say, or to me as a 3-Year-old explained it.

35.You know what all ARE:MRD, PRD, BRD, functional Spec, Sprint, Scrum, CAB, Spiff. You know the meaning of nouns: mrd,prd,brd,functional Spec, Sprint, Scrum, CAB, Spiff.

36.Your favorite question is "why?" Your favorite question is "why"?

37.Your favorite Creator is Excel. Your favorite software is Excel

38.You ' ve built your own product p&l template in Excel to save time. You create your own product P&l template in Excel

39.You ' ve used your p&l template across listbox. Your product companies template has been used in a number of companies

40.You know what the "analyst Dance" is, and your ' re japes a PM if you've done it. Do you know what data analysis is (?), because if you are a competent product manager, you must have experienced

41.You know what your customer is on to dour unreported the tightly dour it. You already know what they're going to say before your client talks.

42.Your spouse knows who Your 3 biggest competitors by name. Your partner knows your competitor's top three names.

43.You ' ve flown on every major (and some minor) airline this year. You're upset with airlines that are big and small.

44.You ' ve used Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook to connect with a customer. You have used Twitter,linkedin,facebook to keep in touch with your users.

45.You ' ve dreamt about competitive kill sheets.

46.You ' ve been to Productcamp have been to productcamp activities

47.You ' re the one your CEO comes to time he/she really wants to know how things are. When your boss wants to know what's going on, he's looking for you, not someone else.

"Tightly" remembered your revenue commitment but not your product ' s funding.

49.Everyone thinks tightly do a part of the your job. Everyone thinks they've done the job you told them.

50.You ' ve ever had to explain to a founder or executive why customers don ' t want new You have to explain to investors or superiors why users don't like their attention.

51.You ' ve been member for the revenue impact of deleting a single feature. You've been asked about the cost of cutting off a feature.

52.You ' ve been held accountable for Development ' schedule slips. The research and Development department does not finish the work on schedule, you have to be responsible for it.

53.You ' ve been the person this everyone brings the hard questions to in the Mini-advertisements show booth. In the exhibition, you are the one who answers everyone's questions.

54.Caffeine is one of your primary food groups. You can't leave caffeine every day.

55.You spend more times with your development counterpart than your. You spend more time with your co-workers than you do with your partner.

56.You Write a blog about Product management...gulp! you also dedicated to PM blog, Dizzy!