Time for Help
It’s time for me to get some help.
Ha ha. No, not the white jacket, Lindsay Lohan kinda of help.
But a person to help me manage our existing product portfolio.
I’m starting to realize how drained my time is. And, I suppose, part of getting older is realizing when to put up your hand because you need some time with yourself, your friends, and your family. And start-ups can occupy every waking hour if you let them.
Now, I’m not saying “gee, I really don’t like my job and I want someone to slough stuff off on.”
I love my job. I love being a product manager and the trials and complexities that come with that role.
I also love team building, teaching, learning, and building things with others.
So, I’ll be working this week to build a justification / key points that I can present to the suits (sorry, just watched Entourage tonight) and seeing if I can get a budget to bring in another product manager to be a part of my team.
A large part of wanting this is to ensure that our products succeed and recognizing that I can only focus so much of my time on a certain set of them before burning out and letting them go to the dogs.
I don’t want that to happen. But another person that can actually work with me and learn the market and build cool / great stuff for those customers is very important.
Who’s helping you? I know Bob has made some posts about how he owes his life to his project manager. I’ve seen the light, Bob…
