The pyramid of the product manager needs (Maslow inspired)

Benoit des Ligneris
Product Coalition
Published in
7 min readMay 18, 2019

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A mental model started to emerge as I was trying to represent the product manager role in a similar way to the Maslow hierarchy of needs for human beings.

The PM pyramid of needs

Like any mental model, it is sometimes useful and wrong most of the time.

This representation and the corresponding layered approach can provide useful guidance to fellow product…

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