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Lessons I learned from my Senior PMs..
These powerful lessons impacted my growth!
Areesha Shaikh
May 08, 2024 • Est. Reading Time: 3 minutes
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Hey, it’s Areesha!
And am gonna share some powerful lessons I learned as a product person with you today.
Yeah, I’m excited too! 🤩
These lessons are a mixture of life lessons and role-related lessons.
And I always wish I knew them already before starting out. 🥺
This is why this email is for you.
To take my lessons early in your career and heed the advice.
Lessons that impacted my growth 👇
I’m really grateful for one thing in life:
I had really helpful and supportive Product Managers to guide me since my day 1 at Landmark or in Product Management.
I learned these lessons from being a PM intern to being an Associate Product Manager.
#1 You cannot solve every problem ❌
Indeed, the job of a PM is to ‘solve problems’ with a solution, but that’s not always true.
There are boundaries you need to set. You cannot solve every problem of every stakeholder in the company.
How did I learn this lesson?
It all started with the requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders.
While there might be a ton of requirements that come in during these sessions, you might even think that every other input seems important.
Well, that’s a trap ⚠️.
In most cases, stakeholders will convince you that a certain requirement is “absolutely unavoidable”, but will forget about it the next minute they’re out of the meeting - *sighs*.
It’s proven with experience. 😒
That’s how I learned that I cannot take up every input that comes from anyone.
So what did I do about it?
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