The Velocity Trap
In mid-career product management, the primary metric of success is execution velocity: How fast can you get a spec to engineering, through QA, and into production? But as you transition to Senior and Principal roles, this metric becomes a liability.
Feature Economics over Feature Velocity
Executive leadership does not care about your sprint velocity if the features you are shipping hold a negative carry. A Senior PM understands the Feature Bloat Calculus. They know that every line of code added to the system increases the permanent maintenance tax on the organization.
You get promoted by killing bad ideas before they consume engineering capacity. You get promoted by proving the unit economics of a feature before demanding architecture changes. You get promoted by acting like the CEO of your feature set.
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