The PM craft

The job description of PM in today’s world is mostly wrong. It’s not JUST about agile processes, tickets and usage. What good PMs actually do is embody the judgment of the company. It’s a daily practice of synthesis - one brick at a time.

The best PMs are great writers. It is a craft of persuasion. They understand that the roadmap is a story.

You’ll know PM’s are doing it right when people in the company mock them!. It takes a long long time, and a lot of patience.

Accelerating this learning can come directly from shipping more because the pace of shipment drives the pace of learning.

Responsiveness is a trap. Counter-intuitively PM should probably be slow, so you can build the right thing, which in practice often means avoiding building the wrong things.