believes there are five<\/a>. A Product Manager should be able to:<\/p>\n1) Identify and know how to approach a market opportunity
\n2) Understand their product’s core concept and components
\n3) Position their product, e.g., does it compete on value and\/or quality, what is the customer segment
\n4) Structure and manage the development\/delivery system for the product*
\n5) See how a product can be scaled once it has achieved product-market fit<\/p>\n
*Whether Product Managers are using agile, waterfall or some other development framework, Jeff maintains that too much emphasis is put on this daily tactical work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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