While I know that I am very much biased, I think that in a company well built, the Product Management position is probably the greatest of all. Product Managers take rough, unripe, crude market requirements, understand what the market actually needs (as opposed to what the market wants), what the company needs, and in a precise and delicate alchemical motion makes it a product, a capability, a pain solver.
Leadership, managing people and managing products have a lot in common, yet there’s very little “standard” around all of these. While accounting has their own standard, and even development have their own rules, both Product Management and People Leadership are kind of “free style”, and differ from one individual to another.
I am sharing my thoughts and insights gathered through my experience in this blog. It doesn’t mean that what I’m doing is the “right” thing or am I at all suggesting it is to the “gold standard”, but I am sure that it will, hopefully, make you think about your role and how you perform it. And if you take even one thing from the blog and start using it, it’s a win for me.
My name is Yuval Shchory. If you ask me for one word to describe me professionally, it will most probably be “passion”. I am passionate about problem solving, I am passionate about Product Management, and I am passionate about team leadership.
I had the honor of working in the IT and Cyber space for over 20 years, as a customer (my last position was a CISO of a Service Provider), Systems Integrator (I was a co-enterpreneur and VP of an Elite Security integrator), a Systems Engineer, Business Line Manager an Vertical Chief Technologist at a Cisco Sales Office, a Product Manager and a Leader of Product Management teams.