The point of view of the product manager
I learnt a lesson the other day. I am involved in 3 projects at the moment, 2 of which we started from scratch and were started with product opportunity assessments. The third project had already been running when I joined. I mistakenly made an assumption that the questions in the assessment were asked and the project had moved forward from there. The other day, once I noticed a few issues come up, I organised a risks meeting and out popped some fundamental problems that I would have looked to identify (and hopefully resolved) much earlier in the process. My mistake was too think that what seems obvious to a product manager (who is thinking in a certain perspective) is obvious to everyone (who actually may have different perspectives).
