Product Management discipline gives tremendous powers to a Product Manager.
But as we all know, it is a well-known fact that:
With Great Power comes Great Responsibilities!
- Marvel Universe
So, to ensure that these great responsibilities are met, a PM should discipline his daily routine.
As part of this discipline, a PM should ideally daily start his day with studying & understanding these 3 things:
1. Numbers:
2. Customers:
3. Market:
But as we all know, it is a well-known fact that:
With Great Power comes Great Responsibilities!
- Marvel Universe
So, to ensure that these great responsibilities are met, a PM should discipline his daily routine.
As part of this discipline, a PM should ideally daily start his day with studying & understanding these 3 things:
1. Numbers:
- See your internal dashboards for product analytics
- Point out any sudden spikes (upwards or downwards)
2. Customers:
- Analyze customer feedbacks (complaints or queries or feedbacks)
- Read what customers are saying about your products on social media
- Speak to few customers and take their feedbacks (at-least once a week)
- Meet a few customers and do user research for existing products or futuristic ideas (at-least once a fortnight)
3. Market:
- Read what's new is happening in the tech world - technologies & innovations
- Read what your competitors are doing
- Read what news-media is saying about your products and your company
- Read what changes are predicted in your product-domain
- Read what state's & nation's government is doing; or is planning to do; in your product-domain
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