Product management is fast becoming the garbage role of wannabe middle managers who lack expertise in engineering, design, or marketing. It's cute to put together a list of suggestions, but each of these areas are better handled by experts. After years as a PM I learned it was a role that was only nessecary when you have B level or worse talent that can't self manage or don't know what they are doing. In a team of A players no one needs a go-between pretending to have expertise and arbitraging credit while playing telephone.

I left my senior PM role to become a lead designer at Google and I have never once looked back. Now I take pride in having expertise derived from hands on work critical to a product along with my peers in engineering and marketing. My instincts for strategy are sharper than my former bumbling PMs who are in meetings all day. Product management is now fighting irrelevance as it continually strives for a purpose as they slump toward extinction.

The greatest tip you could give an aspiring PM is to quit and pursue a worthwhile role that contributes to the product in a meaningful way.