Spill the beans, help the rest of us feel less bad
True story - Person with no prior PM or Product Org experience hired as Director for the flagship product line.
Two years since, she still hasn't figured out how to shape the products, how to groom or guide her PM reportees, how to do any sort of useful people management etc. A walking word salad who derails every meeting she's in.
Two layoffs later, she's still around while people above & below her were either fired or left the org. I have no idea how upper mgmt is unable to see the problem.
Didn’t launch a project for 6 mos, had lots of dependency on 3rd party, honestly didn’t know they were that bad. Sunken cost was too high to ditch it
And manager ended up doing too much of internal marketing
This happens a lot actually
Once a CEO hired a wrong "Product Leader" who didn't understand tech or customers. He was hired due to his investor connections. Tech and marketing were frustrated with the nonsense he was trying to build. The guy left after 6 months. Still doing leadership roles.
Feels like its more of a success story than a screwup.
Built too many things too fast and not focusing on usage
There is this new PM who is making my life living hell. Sets up his own timeline without consulting me how much effort it will take me to execute. The requirements are fuzzy and changes while executing. I am having to delete a ton of my ...
PM se pressure Kaun leta hai? Aukaat mein rakho bhai usko
Document the incompetence of PM in public (Slack, emails with key stakeholders), however, do it in professional langu...
Modi is not good for India
Marriage and kids are a choice, not rule
People (on this app too) are {stupid + confident} enough to state their opinion as facts
Same as title. As a product manager, what to do when your EM is not supportive and passes the buck to you always, doesn't accept mistakes, instead waits for the chance to blame you instead. You can't even escalate, because of course you ...
PMs of Grapevine,
I used to be a PM intern earlier at a startup, and quite enjoyed what I did. I feel I had a knack for it. Unfortunately, for many reasons, in my final year of college I lost my touch of reality (some personal things) ...