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Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller <em>Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams</em> (O'Reilly, 2017).

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<p>In the spirit of Halloween we asked our community of Product Managers on Slack (you have joined our <a href="http://slack.mindtheproduct.com">slack chat for product managers</a> right?) what would scare them the most. Predictably, the results were hilarious:</p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">1. Book a roadmap planning session full of <abbr title="Highest Paid Person's Opinion">HiPPOs</abbr>.</h2>
<p><em>Shanin Schuessler</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">2. &#8220;Can you prepare a Gantt chart for next year? With every dependency linked.&#8221;</h2>
<p><em>Davide Scalzo &#038; Josh Harris</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">3. &#8220;You know this project we just finished? We need to rebuild it from scratch.&#8221;</h2>
<p><em>Simon Cast &#038; Cyril Leroux</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">4. When someone from customer service comes over and says &#8220;I just got off the phone to a customer&#8230;&#8221;</h2>
<p><em>Chris Shepherd</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">5. &#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with the user research, we should just do it my way.&#8221;</h2>
<p><em>Lewis Broad-Ashman</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">6. When the project you’ve spent the last three months getting ready with the team and is due to start tomorrow has just been de-prioritized by the CEO in favour of this great new idea he heard about at a conference this weekend. While drunk.</h2>
<p><em>Cyril Leroux</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">7. When you realise that the product you’ve just finished doesn’t actually solve anyone’s problem and now you have to tell the CEO.</h2>
<p><em>Simon Cast</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">8. When Sales saunter over and demand a feature that you&#8217;ve never heard of and isn&#8217;t even on the roadmap “or our biggest client is going to walk&#8221;.</h2>
<p><em>Martin Eriksson</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">9. When you find out your product has a launch date by reading the news.</h2>
<p><em>Ben Vincent</em></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">10. When your new boss turns out to be Bruce Willis and he just keeps whispering “I see dead features&#8221;.</h2>
<p><em>Dominic Mason &#038; James Mayes</em></p>
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<p>and because Product Managers <em>always</em> turn it up to 11:</p>
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<h2 style="margin:0px;">11. Two words: Legacy. System.</h2>
<p><em>Janna Bastow</em></p>
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<p>and a bonus Dilbert to brighten your day:</p>
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<figure id="attachment_7407" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7407" style="width: 900px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://dilbert.com/strip/2003-01-10"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dilbert-user-story.gif" alt="Courtesy of Scott Adams. &copy; United Feature Syndicate, Inc." width="900" height="282" class="size-full wp-image-7407" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7407" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="http://dilbert.com/strip/2003-01-10">Courtesy of Scott Adams.</a> &copy; United Feature Syndicate, Inc.</figcaption></figure>
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