A celebration of life

15. What is needed for product management?
Love for life, as users are life. Imagination to meet their needs within constraints.
E.g. The early bird that gets food for its babies to survive.

16. How is product management different from engineering?
Product management is synthesis (what). Engineering is analysis (how).
E.g. Building the garden is engineering. Living in it is product management.

17. What is needed to be a successful product manager?
A builder's approach. An artist’s heart. A potter's clay. A carpenter’s wood.
E.g. A mother nurturing a child before and after birth.

18. What should a product manager avoid doing?
Stealing others products over creating originals that delight users uniquely.
E.g. The fruit forbidden by the owner yet taken by those meant to guard it.

19. Are products that promote other products inherently not good?
Promotion with purpose generates awareness. Promotion for profit reduces value.
E.g. The fragrance of a flower attracts the bees to its nectar for pollination.

20. What devalues a product?
Pretense to be something it isn’t i.e. inauthenticity.
E.g. All that glitters isn’t gold (though sometimes close enough is good enough).

21. What enhances a product?
People building products for people first, and later for its owners.
E.g. A garden of knowledge that is seeded, tended and consumed by all.