I’m writing about one hundred things I’ve learned as a product manager.

If you’ve worked in product management for a while, you’ll almost certainly have been annoyed by others taking credit for your hard work.  Your boss will make some kind of announcement that Salesy McSalesdroid had won a massive deal, aren’t they great, they get a free island and half of your salary as bonus, yadda yadda yadda.

Everyone conveniently ignores that you held their hand to all the customer meetings, wrote AND DELIVERED the pitch to the customer, rearranged your roadmap to squeeze in some customer-specific features, and basically did everything needed to secure the deal.  But the main reason nobody else knows this is because you didn’t actually tell anyone! Continue reading →