What should a Product Manager do when s/he is felling lost?
In the last days I start stressing because somehow (I do not know how) I’m in a circle of passed responsibilities and I do not know where to start and, most painful, I do not know where I should get.
Did this happen to you? How did you solve this issue?
To summaries, the story is the following: I’m new in a company; I do not know all the details regarding the systems, department, people…well, I know something, but I can not create the whole puzzle.
I received an interesting project in which are involved lots of departments that will from the good results of this project. But, in general, any meeting defines a new objective.
When I had the confidence that we have established the objectives and we have agreed on the main steps, something happens (like new persons are involved) and the whole process must be redefined.
And the end of the day, people are telling me that I put to much passion in this project and that things may work just fine…without this.
Now I just wander…are they right? Should we just modify everything, expect all and do what we can?
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