Is product management what you thought it’d be like? What about PM do you not like as a profession?

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I entered product management role 11 yrs ago (before the age of mobile app). After sometimes, I realised that managing the product is the easier bits. The more challenging part is managing humans - the customers/users, people who design/build the product, supporting counterparts, and the managements.
To answer the second question, the later part (managing the senior leaders) is particularly more challenging in big bureaucratic organisations, where I was part of.

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1000% agree with this response

It’s definitely less sexy than I imagined it to be in college. All of this talk of being “CEO” of the product and formulating these high-level business strategies without having to code sounded awesome.

In reality, it’s a LOT of herding cats. A LOT of wordsmithing and duplicated communications to get people bought into the same plan. A LOT more execution (aka project management) to get stuff shipped. A LOT of managing expectations with multiple stakeholder groups.

Still really enjoy it because it’s fundamentally a business / generalist role with great visibility and impact. Much prefer it to the more craft-oriented engineering or design disciplines based on my interests. But at the end of the day, it’s a job not a magical high fulatin seat where you order people around then sit back and relax

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