The goal of a effective product manager is to communicate ideas well. Not to build perfect documents like the reading advise against, but to build stories of ideas that get all the reader on the same page.
I recently wrote a 4 page PRD for a mock product and I definitely could’ve improved many aspects of it. I had user personas but the jump from those stories to actual objectives for the product was a bit too far.
I feel that a “takeaways” section in my PRD would have been very helpful for readers to understand what I was making.
