Developing Good Judgment - follow up story
Developing your good judgment in product management
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This week’s backstory is about a recent article on developing your judgment skills in product management:
What Prompted this Article?
After writing about product manager superpowers, a few readers asked about good judgment as a superpower. This got me thinking about some of the confusing things I’ve seen in product management.
Some decisions just seem wrong on the surface!
I wrote about some decisions that seemed to be bad judgment:
A product leader asking the same question to multiple product managers
Reason - to get multiple perspectives
A product leader being overly conservative on a forecast
Reason - historically it takes a while to ramp up sales
A product leader who won’t halt a committed project to take on a bigger project
Reason - big projects have many unknowns
I wrote the article to help product managers think about the consequences of their decisions.
