Worst part is Entry level professionals who are lazy to learn to code, or develop any other hard technical skill(marketing, tech know how, or even writing) + with zero professional experience think that Product Management is the option to get high bucks in the inflated salary market.
The best product managers amongst the experienced folks are ones that have transitioned from some hard skill based role. Product management is never meant to be a role for freshers unless the person has achieved something(can even be winning b plan competitions) or has had enough exposure to do a PM role.
Most new PMs these days quote Steve jobs, reid Hoffman and think reading books can land them a PM role. Dude you need to understand how a BUSINESS works and how it can be ENABLED via TECHNOLOGY. Jira par task toh koi bhi move karlega.
Said on point 👏🏽
Haha you forgot selling bs on LinkedIn one month into the role!
True.
Nobody tells engineers anything because they are so precious.
Product managers are tossed like a ball everywhere. First to be blamed. Timeline adherence is only pm's job, not engineer's apparently
Agreed. It's so tough to be in a situation where the devs give reasons why something can't be done within the deadline and you need to tell the management about this while having 0 control over this situation. Worse so when the engineering manager doesn't interfere with this and provide clarity on this.
And also, you are not the just the news-breaker. You are the punching bag. Like it's your fault that engineer can't finish the work within the deadline.
Engineering doesn’t get blamed ? Quite untrue. Only if expected outcome of that spec didn’t turn out then it’s product’s fault. Else it’s all on engg for delays, missed feature and what not.
Haven't seen this tbh. They are not blamed. There's a difference. It's just floated like oh this couldn't be done. But PMs are asked pointed questions that why didn't you make sure that it got completed. Huge difference.
Making sure it gets completed would work only if everything is technically possible and that is what was foretold before by tech to PM. Now when technical challenges arise and it can’t be done then engg. takes the blame. Any unexpected downtime also comes to engg. For PM it’s easy to say we already discussed this but the time when something was discussed, if engg. didn’t have enough clarity then we’re the ones with problems
The company culture would play a huge role here. There might be orgs where the product team has more authority given more resources. That being said, I've faced the same issues, mostly 2. & 3.
agree! and most of the companies in india have a business first mindset, incl many of the saas firms
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