AdamMazouz's Blog

Drafting My Way Through the Clouds.
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My First PRD!

The document that humbled me, taught me, and changed how I communicate

My first PRD taught me that product requirements are not implementation specifications. They are living communication tools that define the problem, the user, the desired outcome, and the constraints while giving teams room to find the best path forward.

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My First PM Obstacle: Stop Being a Solution Guy

The hardest skill in Product Management is the one nobody teaches you

My first major lesson as a Product Manager was learning to stop jumping straight to solutions. Coming from an engineering and architecture background, I had to unlearn the instinct to solve quickly and learn to understand the problem first.

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Why a Product Management Career?

The moment I stopped asking 'how' and started asking 'why'

After 10 years in tech (racking servers, writing Terraform modules, speaking at conferences, and winning hackathons) I found that the work I cared about most was not the building. It was the deciding what to build, and why! This is the story of why I chose Product Management.