What Product Managers Actually Do

Summary

PMs sit at the intersection of user needs, business goals and technical feasibility — deciding what gets built, in what order, and why, without directly managing the people who build it.

• 1Read 2-3 'day in the life of a PM' posts from different companies and compare them.
• 2List the last 5 decisions a PM at a product you use probably had to make.
• 3Notice how much of the job is judgment calls, not a fixed process.