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Startup PM here. Article is pretty accurate. My responsibilities: 1. Act as scrum product owner: define features, fill backlogs etc. A little additional proje
by nobody_nowhere 17y ago
Startup PM here. Article is pretty accurate. My responsibilities:
1. Act as scrum product owner: define features, fill backlogs etc. A little additional project management/release planning when needed. Keep scope creep under control.
2. Market research: talk to customers, investigate competitors, build pricing models, financial projections, etc.
3. Code a little when needed. Make prototypes and mockups. Analyze raw data from the production system and make statistical models. Test and validate when needed.
4. Strategic sales & marketing. Go after the big fish directly when sales gets over their head and the CEO is booked. Position the product and help sales figure out how to sell it.
5. Absolutely anything else that's going to further our strategic goals. Get the pizza. Find contractors for non-core development areas. Paint the walls of the office.
Shorter answer: whatever it takes.
- pkaler 17y agoThe product manager should also be doing some Kano Modeling and figuring out the ROI on features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model They should also own the metrics dashboard. They should now exactly which features are driving which stage of the sales pipeline. http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/09/startup-metrics.html http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/09/startup-metrics....
- xal 17y agoThat's the kind of stuff you can do once you reach break even point. If you concentrate on such things early on you work on the wrong stuff.
- nobody_nowhere 17y agoI find the Kano useful even pre-breakeven, but most (good) PMs probably have an intuitive sense of where their products/features without doing a formal assessment