AA233 - Building Your Own Product: Ultimate PM Hack or Career Sabotage?

Episode notes

Building products for yourself sounds like the perfect PM training ground! At first glance, you get instant feedback, prioritize ruthlessly, and have no bureaucracy to whom you answer... but does it actually prepare you for professional product management, or does it create dangerous blind spots? In this episode, Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel explore several critical dimensions: Learning velocity and skill development User empathy paradoxes Resource management realities Technical vs. strategic balance Failure tolerance Career advancement Business model understanding Our findings? Set artificial constraints, validate with real users, document your learnings, and use self-building as a supplement to professional experience, not a replacement. Whether you're considering a side project or wondering if your solo work translates professionally, this episode offers practical frameworks for balancing the best of both worlds. #ProductManagement #MVP #Solopreneur #ProductStrategy #CareerDevelopment LINKS YouTube Spotify: Apple: Website: INTRO MUSIC Toronto Is My Beat By Whitewolf (Source: CC BY 4.0 DEED (

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