Quite simply, it’s the product manager’s job to articulate two simple things:
- What game are we playing?
- How do we keep score?
Do these two things right, and all of a sudden a collection of brilliant individual contributors with talents in engineering, operations, quality, design and marketing will start running in the same direction. Without it, no amount of prioritization or execution management will save you.
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