Welcome to Product Internals! My name is Rob Stephenson, and together with Arvid Olovsson we play Product Manager by day at Spotify and just now we’ve started this Product Management podcast and blog. In one of our 1:1 meetings around Christmas time, Arvid and I did some introspection on our careers and decided we should write a bit more to get our learnings down. I ended up writing 20 pages or so and extracted the learnings that I’ve internalised from my 10 years in tech so far. Arvid made a set of guardrails, which he describes as ‘The Bare Minimums’ of the PM job which he strives to keep in good shape at all times (spoiler, it’s a lot easier said than done!). We started discussing the conclusions that we’ve come to with our other PM colleagues and told some of the stories where we’ve made mistakes and learned. We got some feedback that these discussions were really valuable and would be great to share with other new or aspiring product managers, so here we are!
Welcome to Product Internals
Welcome to Product Internals
Welcome to Product Internals
Welcome to Product Internals! My name is Rob Stephenson, and together with Arvid Olovsson we play Product Manager by day at Spotify and just now we’ve started this Product Management podcast and blog. In one of our 1:1 meetings around Christmas time, Arvid and I did some introspection on our careers and decided we should write a bit more to get our learnings down. I ended up writing 20 pages or so and extracted the learnings that I’ve internalised from my 10 years in tech so far. Arvid made a set of guardrails, which he describes as ‘The Bare Minimums’ of the PM job which he strives to keep in good shape at all times (spoiler, it’s a lot easier said than done!). We started discussing the conclusions that we’ve come to with our other PM colleagues and told some of the stories where we’ve made mistakes and learned. We got some feedback that these discussions were really valuable and would be great to share with other new or aspiring product managers, so here we are!