Our company went through an exercise of redefining product roles - from business analyst, product owner, product manager to assoc pm, pm, senior pm etc.
The concept is everyone with same skills - with different competency levels.
My question is - what about interest? I am energized by execution, not so much strategy. Is product management for me, or should I be looking at other career paths?
Note: I am not overly ambitious, but do want to have a good salary for my retirement savings😉

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We did this recently as well. The thought behind this is really that the PM role really needs to be close to the customer problem, and if your delivery team (including POs, bas, etc) are not close to the discovery, they are not going to be able to provide the best and most innovative solution. And having a PM that is not on the team means the PM is deciding how to solve the problem and passing it over the fence. This also doesn't provide innovative solutions.

The big tech companies have figured out how to do this well, and I would say most modern software companies work this way.

That being said, there are plenty of older more traditional companies that still split out the roles of PO/PM. I would recommend maybe looking for a job with one of them.

I think the key here is good product leaders who really know what good product orgs should look like, that are not business and not technology. Product leaders that can coach the jr's.
Strategy should be coming from your product leaders.

We lack this in our organization, my dept is deviating from the rest of the organization. So I had to do a lot of self learning.

Inspired by Marty Cagan is a really good book. I really love Melissa Perri's Escaping the Build Trap. Melissa Perri also has an excellent podcast that I listen to religiously. I follow Gibson Biddle on social media, he was a Product Leader at Netflix, and has good thoughts on strategy.

One big change going from execution to discovery is talking to customers and getting feedback. If you aren't doing that, I would figure out how you can start doing that.

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