Link: Product Managers? We don’t need no stinkin’ product managers!.
"The interesting question is trying to figure out what, if any, kind of PM your company needs and at what stage. Some would argue that you need a distinct Product function as soon as you start building, not only to be the eyes and ears of the Engineering side. Sometimes, swimming in the open water of deep code, the tech team might not poke their heads up often enough to make sure they’re not swimming to Jersey."
Charlie O’Donnell has a thoughtful post this morning on the role of product managers in startups. He identifies two of the three roles of a product manager (product vision and getting stuff out the door) but leaves out the third (working with customers to make sure they’re getting the right functionality at the right time).
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Good point… wonder why I left out that critical function of what a product manager does in the period after launch… hmm…