Your questionnaire: Product managers
17 questionsRate each question: 1 = not well … 5 = extremely well
Product thinking and prioritisation
- How clearly does this product manager explain the problem a feature is meant to solve?
- How well do they use customer evidence and data to decide what comes first?
- How clearly do they explain what is not being built, and why?
- How well do they balance short-term requests with longer-term product goals?
Working with engineering and design
- How well does this PM involve engineers and designers early, before the solution is decided?
- How clear and complete are the requirements, user stories or briefs they write?
- How well do they make trade-offs between scope, quality and deadlines with the team?
- How available are they to answer questions while work is in progress?
Stakeholder communication
- How clearly does this PM share the roadmap and changes to it with other teams?
- How well do they say no to requests from sales, leadership or customers while keeping the relationship?
- How well do they prepare support, sales and marketing for a launch?
Ownership and learning
- How consistently do they check whether a release achieved what it was meant to?
- How openly do they admit when a decision or feature did not work?
- How well do they keep the team focused when priorities shift?
Open-ended questions
Answer in a few sentences.
- What does this product manager do that helps the team build the right things?
- What is one habit that would make them easier to work with?
- Describe a recent decision they made and how they handled it with the team.
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