How to Become a Bad Product Manager? A recipe for disaster
How to Become a Bad Product Manager? A recipe for disaster
🍏Get inspired by Steve Jobs, you are exceptional! You have a fantastic vision, and everyone else should just follow. Don't acknowledge your shortcomings yet.
🅱️ You are the CEO of the product. So, use the CEO red button in every opinion conflict (shut up it’s a business decision).
👨💼Spend less time with your team and more time with C-level executives.
❌ Don’t listen to your customers. You know the way and have a solid vision that no other voice can change or override.
👨🎨 The UX designers are just tools. Use them cautiously to design what you've seen in other apps no one knows about, after all, you have a taste for design.
🏭 Quantity over quality and numbers! You don’t need to set metrics or go through a discovery phase. Just copy and paste from your competitor so quickly, leave the dust under the mat, no one cares.
👨💻You know everything. You should be involved in the tech solution, not just state the problem. Instruct the team to opt for the fastest solution, if we fail, it’s their fault the server goes down.
🐢Tell management that the team is too slow and you need more resources. Overpromise instead of setting realistic expectations.
📢 Ask for updates every couple of hours, the tech team must know you are watching.
😎Hide the big picture from your team. They need just a list of tasks to work on daily to stay focused, not because they haven’t planned at all.
🫡 Control your product tightly. Everyone must get your approval before making any decisions, even if it means being a bottleneck. It's worth the wait because every tiny detail must be as you wish.
🕵🏻♂️ Don’t document what needs to be built; just leave empty tickets with short titles. Turn the sprint into a Q&A session between you and the team.