Victor W. von Buchstab

Hello product people. What exactly does a product manager do all day, in your opinion? At a startup, we might find a product manager making together product mock-ups, scheduling check-in points with devs, and conducting user interviews. At a medium-sized tech company, we might find a product manager running planning meetings with a team of designers and devs, negotiating product roadmaps with executives, and working with colleagues in sales and customer support to understand and prioritize customer needs. At a large enterprise, we might find a product manager rewriting feature requests as job stories, requesting specific data from analysts, and attending a whole lot of meetings. Product managers do lots of different things at different times, and what exactly those things are can change at a moment s notice. Are there themes that unite the work of product management across job titles, industries, business models, and company sizes? What do you think?

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