Product Management

Why I gave up 8 years of coding skills to become a product manager.

In Jan 2011, I got my first taste of building my very own mobile app for users. I still remember sweating about forking up USD $99 to enroll in the Apple Developer Program. In 2 weeks after shipping, I manage to earn almost 200% of the enrollment fees!

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"The customer is always right" is a subjective slogan that aims to provide high-quality service to the customer. When it comes to software products and services, it can easily backfire. The tendencies to overreact to a paying client's concern can cause us to lose valuable time.

“We need this feature, our potential client asking for it!”

From the standpoint of a company that

The common misconception about prioritization and hiring always led to unnecessary confusion and anxiety. We have the same goals in delivering quality products according to the timeline. All we need is a little more understanding across departments to solve the unnecessary confusion.

1. "Let's tackle this ASAP"

abbreviation for as soon as possible

The most overused word in all industries. Let's fix this

If you work in a startup or creating a brand new product in a larger firm, an early decision about certain design bound to be a stumbling block later down the road.

Before we go further, I just want to let you know that this is normal. The decision we make base on incomplete knowledge tend to come back and bite us. There

Whenever someone does a great job, we want to recognize their effort. We want to give them recognition or rewards in front of the team members to make them feel appreciated.

However, having worked in a few startups, I notice that a wrongly attributed recognition can cause the best engineers to feel frustrated. If it happens frequently, they quit.

"everybody knows that you