But all products need to deliver value to their users — My background is in Engineering. I used to develop products as a Frontend Engineer, and in my narrowed view the applications I was developing were the actual product for the companies I was working for. In my head, all solutions were digital solutions, the way to improve someone's life was…

Upper management, peers, stakeholders, and your own team. All of them get the benefits of a live roadmap — As a Product Manager, a big chunk of your time is destined for communication, we can go even as far as saying that one of your main outcomes is communication. You need to communicate the strategy across multiple teams and even departments, you also need to be accountable for the…

Your team will not always be a 10x Engineers stack, so you need to adapt your approach — I've been working as a Product Manager for a couple of years. I've always worked with experienced engineers who have been part of the company for a long time or engineers with a good amount of experience in previous companies. But this Summer, I decided to volunteer as Product Manager…

As a Product Manager, you need to adapt your game based on your audience — As a Product Manager, you will have to deal with stakeholders, that is a fact. But not all the stakeholders are born equal, you will have probably some stakeholders who are more tech-savvy than others, and some stakeholders who will have more knowledge about some specific domains than others. If…

Bigger scope and bigger problems require better strategy and better solutions — It's been 8 months since my last post on this series, the last time I talked about 5 things I learnt in the last 8 months after switching from Engineering to Product. Now, another 8 months have stacked, so it's time to review where we are. 5 things I learned in the last 8 months after switching from Engineering to Product The struggle of the first months as a Product Managermcocirio.medium.com

And not getting lost in a non-productive 4-hours call in the process — Times have changed, and the home office is a reality we need to face, with its perks and its cons. Anyways, today we are not here to talk about the home office but to talk about how to keep things moving remotely. As a Product Manager, I recently faced the…

Spoiler, you'll never be fully ready. But you can be less not-ready — This is kinda a personal story, but the idea is to go through the process of how did I manage to speak in public for the first time to an open audience about Product Management. I think this might be useful for anyone hesitating about throwing themselves into public speaking…

As an Engineer, should I give Product a shot? — It’s been a year since I moved from an Engineering position to a full-time Product Manager role, and I think it’s a good time to talk about the perks and the cons of this transition. I had the luck of being able to transition within the same company, which allowed…

If you want to deliver value to your users, your goals should be aligned on that idea — One of the biggest responsibilities for a Product Manager is to build the right product. But what can you do to ensure you are building the right product? …