On: The Product is the Byproduct

[drumdance]

This reminds me of how a friend described the role of product manager: "a person with huge responsibility but no power." That doesn't have to be a bad thing. The best product managers know how to listen, give and receive feedback, persuade and build consensus around features, deadlines, marketing strategy etc even though they don't have the power to say "just do what I said."

[yxhuvud → drumdance]

Indeed, and the ones that understand that they have no power is the best ones. They have a vision and educate about market and customer needs.

The ones that believe they have power tend to be dicks on the other hand :(