The Future of Product Management

My wife and I got taking some days ago, and she asked me a very interesting question.
What is the future of product management?
It got me inspired to enumerate a lot of things I have learned about product and the end game. Yes, the end game!

Take it to be providence, but I was speaking with Justice Eneje who also happens to be a co founder at Wewetube about the future of technology and his product and we came back to the same conclusion; there’s a need for every product to have an end game, and if that end game is a premature ending, would that be the end of the product managers’ journey?

Product persons’ in technology look to build products into internationally recognised technology product like Amazon, Google, Stripe, Flutterwave etc. or even get to work with those brands themselves as product heads and managers. What we may not consider is that, product management is as old as development. Think about this, in the 1800 to the early 19th century, the builders of locomotives needed managers to work with the engineers who built those product, the engineers saw coal as the driving force, and all product managers at the time looked for skills as regards knowledge of that product, at least, until petroleum and now, electric technology took the train and track business. Obviously, new product managers were needed to replace those who didn’t prepare for the future of locomotion.

Today, there are thousands of product managers in various fields. Data technology, Fintech and hardware technology products are drawing in some of the best hands. But for a minute, consider that these could become obsolete in time, how viable would the product manager be?

We see a race in space technology with every person in the fore front patenting everything that support life in space. Technology, long hidden, are beginning to surface as space technology is becoming more real. Folks are considering the future of colonies in space, and while many fight about tribal differences or religion or small wealth, some folks are focused on building the future, and soon, product management could change drastically.

Can you manage products beyond your planet? Can you phantom the idea of managing a product that makes current products worldwide obsolete? Yes! The end game can be as simple as building products that gets you to the top now, or building the products that builds the future. In the end, evolution wins, and anyone who isn’t looking to evolve or build such products get left behind.