New PMs cannot effectively onboard when inheriting broken products
Product managers joining mid-crisis face a structural onboarding failure: no working dev environment, outdated documentation, and multiple conflicting feedback sources prevent them from prioritizing or validating work. Without direct product access, PMs cannot estimate scope, yet are pressured to deliver status updates immediately. This forces guesswork that risks mispriotizing fixes before the real product state is understood.
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