Product administration is about extra than simply making merchandise, and it took me shedding my job simply to determine that out.
By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition
I nonetheless bear in mind the intestine punch of that second once I obtained laid off as a product supervisor. It was the type of second the place your abdomen drops, your chest tightens, and the bottom beneath you seems like quicksand.
After three years on the firm, I used to be blindsided.
Positive, I dealt with product launches, managed groups, and improved UX, however none of that mattered once I was informed, “We have now to allow you to go.”
I assumed I had been doing all the things proper. I used to be nice at working with my engineering groups, determining UX, and making agile practices work.
Oh how I used to be so incorrect.
I didn’t perceive the “business” facet of the enterprise. I imply — not simply perceive easy methods to make merchandise work, however easy methods to make them worthwhile.
And that failure was my undoing.
The day I met with my boss, and he or she gave me the dangerous information, she began with: “You’re nice with design and connecting…
