Lessons I learned from my Senior PMs..

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?