Marrisa Mayer is Engineer turned Product Manager turned CEO
You have to be good at…
• Road mapping
• Prioritizing feature list (and Prioritizing decisions)
• Use of Engineering mandates wisely, since you have very few shots
• Calibrate your predictive skills and metric abilities
• Talk in different languages when talking to engineers, business people
• A good sense in understanding of the customer
• Understanding all of the features
• Understanding revenues & Profit & Loss(P&L key metric in PM performance)
• Understanding ALL the pieces
If you can be a product manager, you can acquire the experience of acting as a CEO. The skills gained in product roadmapping, prioritizing tasks, interoffice communications, customer understanding, and product marketing are absolute necessities for being an effective enterprise lead.
Being a product manager is a demanding and high profile job. Individuals should make sure they’re up to the challenge. Here’s why product management as CEO training makes sense:
Marrisa Mayer is Engineer turned Product Manager turned CEO
