What is the most underrated skill to be a great product manager?
Mine has always been the ability to make friends with people at the office. SWEs, other PMs etc
Soft skills (Leading by influence). You need to understand when and how to influence members in other verticals and how to get them to trust you for the skillet that you bring.. Push too soon and they will feel that you are just stamping your authority Push too late and you end up not doing the right things for the product
Asking silly questions like a 5 year old when new in a product
be good at program management
Many new PMs think that their main job is to escalate when they are blocked on something. Shouting fire, fire, fire instead of trying to put out the fire is an instant formula for all the engineers to hate you. :)
Note - I am a product manager too
4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disresp...
To folks who have loved working with a Product Manager at any point, what are some of the most important traits you admired about them?
Was it the personality/smartness, or their passion for work or something else entirely?
