Product Management is most times a thankless job. Being a cross functional role, you are uniformly exposed to all the functions in the organizations — sales, support, customer success, marketing etc. And no matter how hard you try, you cant prevent disappointing everyone. And the reason why PMs disappoint everyone is because we have to say no to most feature requests from all of them. And hence, you receive a lot of gripe. Amongst all the functions that hate Product Management, Sales tops the list especially in Enterprise products. Most sales people have a few accounts that are waiting to be converted if the product includes a certain feature requested by these accounts.
The Power of Building Less
The Power of Building Less
The Power of Building Less
Product Management is most times a thankless job. Being a cross functional role, you are uniformly exposed to all the functions in the organizations — sales, support, customer success, marketing etc. And no matter how hard you try, you cant prevent disappointing everyone. And the reason why PMs disappoint everyone is because we have to say no to most feature requests from all of them. And hence, you receive a lot of gripe. Amongst all the functions that hate Product Management, Sales tops the list especially in Enterprise products. Most sales people have a few accounts that are waiting to be converted if the product includes a certain feature requested by these accounts.