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How do you measure your own success in your role and how much have those performance indicators evolved as you grew within your role?

Natalia Baryshnikova
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning3y
As a general manager, I own specific business goals and outcomes that I need to achieve, and am responsible for on an organization level. Those goals are very specific an...
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Nicolas Liatti
Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category1y
The way how you measure your own success depends on the criteria you have for yourself.However, I think it's very important to know that when you go into the PM career th...
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Mike Flouton
Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust1y
You should be thinking of your product management career as a story and be thinking about what the headlines and chapter headings for each one of those stories is. What a...
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Karishma Irani
Scribe VP of Product | Formerly LaunchDarkly, New Relic1y
For early career IC product managers, success is measured consistently with how you manage the product lifecycle, pace of delivery, the value of features you deliver to u...
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Aaron Bloom
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion1y
Early in my career I was really focused on what I was delivering - I wanted to work on big, user facing initiatives. Now, I measure my success by the impact I'm making to...
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Julian Dunn
Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management1y
Being a manager of PMs is a completely different job, with substantially different performance indicators than being an IC PM. For example, there is no way I can be the d...
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Bryan Dunn
Nextiva Head of Product, Developer Ecosystem | Formerly VP Product at Localytics, Crayon, Redox, CoreStoryApr 2
I think about this across three dimensions that evolve as you grow:Start with the outcome, not the metric. Before picking KPIs, I ask: "If we were wildly successful this ...
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