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Looking for some advice, what are some common mistakes new product managers make?

Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI4y
Seek to understand and clarify first before assuming you have learnt everything that is to know and propose solutions. I see there are lot of online courses, documentati...
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Veronica Hudson
ActiveCampaign Senior Director of Product Management3y
Everyone is going to make new mistakes coming into a PM role depending on where they are starting from. For me, my biggest mistake was letting my own imposter syndrome ta...
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Rapha Danilo
Gong GM / Sr Director of Product3y
Here's a few common mistakes I see in no particular order (many I've made myself):Not talking to enough customersIMO you should be talking to at least a couple of custome...
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Lexi Lowe
Hex Head of Product | Formerly Fivetran3y
I think the most common mistake that I see is jumping to solutions quickly. This is definitely my biggest mistake as I started as a product manager. For me, it was/is rea...
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Mike Flouton
Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust4y
The biggest misconception about PM is that it's a tactical, inward facing role. It should be a strategic, outside in role. Writing stories, running scrum ceremonies and c...
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Shruti Tiwari
Principal Product Management, AI/ML1y
Based on my experience, some common mistakes AI PMs make include focusing too much on technology instead of user needs and business impact, ignoring data quality and feas...
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211 Views