I heard a story in today's chat: Group H and Group I are responsible for the server-side and client-side parts of the company's products, respectively. After several years of development, they have formed their own markets and have been in a state of maintenance. Group I has not been paid much attention due to its small size. At one time, Group I recruited a product manager. The product manager planned a big road map, and then went to the company boss with the product plan. As a result, the boss saw that the item was too big, so he kept the resources for other purposes. thing. The product manager's ingenuity could not be exerted, so he left the company depressed.
After a year, there are not many maintenance tasks for Group I, so let's find something to do. A bunch of IT migrant workers couldn't think of any ideas, so they took the road map at that time to make a demo, and then showed it to the boss. The boss looked at it and said that there was nothing else to do anyway, so just do it. In this way, Group I started to do it slowly, but unexpectedly it became the most promising product of the company in the future! The boss attaches great importance to Group I and has invested a lot of new resources.
On the other hand, Group H has been busy maintaining existing projects, but the business has gradually shrunk. It used to be highly valued by leaders, but no new products have come out, and the boss is not willing to invest resources in it. There is a constant loss of personnel, and the future is very uncertain.
Different companies have different cultures, and product managers are not always valued everywhere. Even so, when the development task is not very full, it is better to think of some product ideas and get started so that your organization can have a future.