What makes a good Product Manager?

What role were you previously ?

I think if u break the role down to its core function, it is the balance of features​ vs time. So a good understanding of the product and being able to identify temporal bottlenecks. Able to rally people to understand and work on these bottlenecks.

Understand your MAIN goals, measure them with KPIs and prioritize your time

Key to success is understand customer / end user.

If you can manage your products well, I'd say that would be a good product manager

https://svpg.com/assets/Files/productmanager.pdf By far one one of the best reads on PM for me. I also checked out Aha! and witnessed how they link PM and Project Management together with releases. Made a lot of sense. Especially understanding where the line gets drawn. In addition to cookiebtr from Tesla, solving problems vs time might be another way to look at the core of the role. Ultimately features are what solves customer pain points and adds value but feature creep can be reduce if the focus is in accurately formulating the problems features are trying to solve

Learn what your team is capable of and then push them, but don't burn them out.

Come to Yahoo. No successful deliveries expected but promotions guaranteed.

try to actually know something. the danger with PM is that sales actually knows the market and engineering actually knows what's possible and how it works. so you need to find a way to learn enough from both to have the combination of current product + market knowledge allow you to find a path forward and be credible.

Product Managers are like a conductor in an orchestra. If all the instruments don't play at the right time the music is terrible... or if you play something the audience doesn't want to hear then you fail.