30 Quotes About Product-management

"Methodology must be flexible. Companies often don't adopt the materials & methods they were trained on because they aren't flexible enough."

"People don’t appreciate that they can always buy growth, but you can’t buy engagement, it has to be built into the product. Unless you have a crappy product, it’s much more cost effective to spend resources on keeping existing customers than finding new"

"Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it."

"Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice."

"In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization."

"Doing testing with real users (in addition to internal quality testing) can help you avoid the serious embarrassment of a failed product."

"One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design."

"While you're fixing what's broke, don't break what's fixed."

"A launch plan should touch every single aspect of the “whole product customer experience,” where “whole” and “customer” should be considered in the broadest way possible."