E3: What Does a Product Manager Really Do? Unfiltered Truth about Natural Birth

What exactly does a Product Manager do in the world of SaaS? A lot of job descriptions require PMs to “manage roadmap”. But what does roadmap management truly entail? In this episode of SaaSy Moms, Anya and Wendy will deep dive into the broad aspect of PMs responsibilities, and explain how to make an impact on business through product.

(00:01:34) TheTrue goal of product management

(00:01:58) How to create a product that makes money

(00:02:23) WhatReally Needs to Happen Before You Build a Roadmap

(00:02:45) What PMs should know about business

(00:03:27) What every PM should know about the Market

(00:04:02) The Must-Know Insights on Customers & Users

(00:04:49) Detailed product knowledge is a must for PMs

(00:05:25) Crafting Product strategy and measurable initiatives

(00:06:37) Bingo! Now you are ready to build a roadmap

(00:06:57) Roadmap Execution

(00:08:09) How to understand your market and business

(00:11:03) Consequences of neglecting business goals

(00:11:42) Managing Unlimited Customer needs without losing focus

(00:13:23) How Deep a PM’s Financial knowledge should go

(00:16:58) Competitive analysis

(00:17:32) Blockbuster vs. Netflix story

(00:18:58) Product Owner, Product Manager, and Business Analyst. Roles and Responsibilities

(00:22:20) What goes into launching a new feature. Let’s touch base on requirements

(00:25:41) How not to miss key user needs when designing a feature

(00:27:16) PMs’ role during the feature launch

(00:29:28) How to get into Product Management

(00:31:15) SaaSy Struggles: The Dangers of Giving Birth & Wendy’s Experience

(00:32:13) Wendy’s unmedicated birth to her first kid

(00:37:55) Giving birth to twins

(00:45:360 The newborn stage with twins

(00:48:20) Newborn Amnesia

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