I have never worked as a pure PM, but I have worked with several. I would say that the most important thing is to build trust with your team and to be ready to adapt to the existing process. From there on you can start introducing small changes towards a better working mode, but do not get caught up in process over outcome. Remember why you are there.
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Not if the "founder" experience as a founder was micromanaging a startup of 10 people. I had a PM like that once and he was one of the worse PMs I've had.
curious to know more : what about him / her made it that bad ?
I personally disliked being micromanaged. But even trying to leave personal feeling aside, I don't think he knew the team or the product well enough to micromanage the work effectively. It just made everybody more frustrated with him and work.
Well, maybe not everybody, but the others on the team that I talked with. As far as I know after only 9 months 75% of the team had been fired or left.