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Attributes of a Product Manager

Analytical

Sean Horgan

Summary

1. Can identify, analyze & solve problems in organized way
2. Offers more than one way to tackle problem, effectively evaluate solutions & decide which to pursue
3. Leverages analytical methods to build consensus in ambiguous areas w/ diverse constituents
4. Provides multiple topline success metrics & decomposes general ones into specifics
5. Ties metrics to goals and outcomes of the overall product.

Attributes


1. Can identify, analyze, solve problems in an organized way

An analytical framework is a structured approach that helps organize and interpret information, identify key factors, and generate and compare solutions.

List of frameworks
CIRCLES (Comprehend, Identify, Report, Customers, List solutions, Evaluate trade-offs, Summarize)
STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Results)
BUS (Business objectives, User problems, Solutions)

2. Offers more than one way to tackle problem, effectively evaluate solutions & decide which to pursue

Need to balance which states that increasing the number of choices will increase the decision time logarithmically.

3. Leverages analytical methods to build consensus in ambiguous areas w/ diverse constituents

Avoids the .

4. Provides multiple top line success metrics


Classic example is the
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5. Tie metrics to goals...

Avoid : “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
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