What it takes to be a great product manager ?
PMs should consider three primary factors when evaluating their role: core competencies, emotional intelligence (EQ), and company fit.
Core Competencies
conducting customer interviews and user testing, running design sprints, feature prioritization and road map planning, the art of resource allocation (it is not a science!), performing market assessments, translating business-to-technical requirements, and vice versa, pricing and revenue modeling. defining and tracking success metrics
Emotional Intelligence
Relationship management. Self-awareness, Self-management. Social awareness.
Company Fit
Technical skill. Company philosophy about PM, PM drives engineering, Engineering drives product, The PM-engineering partnership. Stage of company. Startup, Mature company) Founder/CTO/CEO relationship with PM