Hello! Welcome to my site that explores what exactly is tech product management.
Here I aim to go beyond having-waving CEO of the product definitions to help new and budding PMs get a solid idea of the kinds of problems a product manager might encounter and how these are overcome. To do this without stepping on any corporate toes, I created a brand new app called SailRight along with a handful of presentations that capture some important product decisions. See below to find out more.
We all know that, at a typical software company, a PM sits at the intersection between Business, Design, and Technology, with responsibility-without-authority, and is the advocate of the customer... But what does that actually mean? Check out the below to dig a little deeper and find out what these three sides of product management actually mean, as applied to SailRight.
Business
Product managers work to maximize the value of the product. That can mean analyzing markets, working on product and feature strategies, recommending pricing, or any number of business functions.
Click here to see my example with SailRight.
Design
Product managers make sure products fulfill customer needs. They need to understand the customers obvious and not-so-obvious desires and make it their mission to satisfy these. This means attaining a deep understanding of the user experience.
Click here to see how this worked with SailRight.
Technology
Product managers make recommendations that impact the engineering of product so we need to had an idea of how they work. Small changes to the underlying engineering can mean giant changes for the customer and for the business.
Click here to see an example of SailRight tech.