Product management can be the most challenging process for managers. It needs different processes starting from managing multiple teams, releasing real schedules, lining up customer satisfaction, to designing a product’s roadmap, and other stressful activities.
Now, it’s time to take a break and re-orginize yourself through 10 of the most inspiring product managers and business leaders to pave the way toward customer journay.
“Only move forward with creating a product that will be ‘above the bar.’”
Brian Lawley, CEO and founder of the 280 Group
“Great products are engineered when product managers truly understand the desired outcomes by actively listening to people, not users.”
Michael Fountain, Director of Product at Apptentive
“A great product manager has the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer, and the speech of a diplomat.”
Deep Nishar, Vice President of Product at LinkedIn
“At the heart of every product person, there’s a desire to make someone’s life easier or simpler. If we listen to the customer and give them what they need, they’ll reciprocate with love and loyalty to your brand.”
Francis Brown, Product Development Manager at Alaska Airlines
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Reid Garrett Hoffman, Entrepreneur
“Good companies manage Engineering. Great companies manage Product.”
Thomas Schranz, Founder and CEO of Blossom
“Customers are who we build our apps for, so we want to give them what they want and need, while empathizing with their struggles and frustrations. For me it’s not necessarily the mantra of the customer is always right, but do everything with the customer in mind.”
Jason Pace, Technical Product Manager at Alkami Technology
“Any damn fool can make something complex, it takes a genius to make something simple.”
Pete Seeger, Product Director at Docusign
“The biggest product management challenge is resource alignment. Team sizes are always changing and frequently lopsided. Some weeks you have plenty of design bandwidth and no iOS, others you have no design and all iOS. Having a deep backlog of well prioritized projects is key to operating an efficient team.”
Ethan Hollinshead, Senior Product Manager at Strava
“Customer love means two sides of the same coin to me. On one side is knowing your customer and building fantastic experiences for them. Your dedication and passion to making their life easier and delighting them feeds into the other side. When approached this way, not only will you have a loyal user base, they will also be your strongest advocates and critics.”
Andrew Wang, Senior Product Manager at Gap
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