The Circle of Product Management

3 min readOct 8, 2015

At the beginning there was a triangle

I talked about product design on our orientation day. I knew that there will be engineers, UX guys and Product Managers will attend on this event. I wanted to give a good overview about product design and the Spotify method we use.
When I was thinking about the overview part of it, Daniel Schmidt’s post poped into my mind. I read his post about “A Map of White Space for Product Managers” (detailed version of this post). I really liked his abstraction about Product Managers. Among other, it also shows the teamwork aspect of it and that everybody has influence of the design of the product — so everybody is a designer :)
This picture grabbed my attention and got into my head so I used it in my presentation and expanded it.

Instead of zooming in, I wanted to zoom out a little bit…

And it became a circle

I added a new layer to it to show what skills I think are important for all those people who are around the product. It fits to our company values, and I think these are really important to build a great product together.

Passion

And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn’t feel passion? It’d be like a chef without an appetite.
Haruki Murakami

Judgement

— Is this the best picture to demonstrate Judgement? — Probably not.

I could have spent more time to find the best picture or quote to determine the importance of judgement in a catchy way. Maybe there are too many twists to demonstrate judgement with this picture, but I DECIDED that this is enough for a blog post.

— Is this the best picture to demonstrate Judgement? — Maybe ;)