This document summarizes courses offered by Product School to help product managers and leaders improve their skills. It describes part-time courses in product management, coding, data analytics, digital marketing, UX design, and product leadership offered in various cities and online. The document also promotes an event with speakers from networking, ridesharing, and social media companies discussing challenges product teams face.

1. www.productschool.com
How to Set Up Your Product Team for
Success by Vibes Director of Product

2. FREE INVITE
Join 35,000+ Product Managers on

3. COURSES
Product Management
Learn the skills you need to land a product manager job

4. COURSES
Coding for Managers
Build a website and gain the technical knowledge to lead software engineers

5. COURSES
Data Analytics for Managers
Learn the skills to understand web analytics, SQL and machine learning concepts

6. COURSES
Digital Marketing for Managers
Learn how to acquire more users and convert them into clients

7. COURSES
UX Design for Managers
Gain a deeper understanding of your users and deliver an exceptional end-to-end
experience

8. COURSES
Product Leadership for Managers
For experienced Product Managers looking to gain strategic skills needed for top leadership
roles

9. COURSES
Corporate Training
Level up your team’s product management skills

10. Sam Benediktson
TONIGHT’S SPEAKER

12. -40%
Harvard Business Review reported productivity decreases by 40% when
multitasking

13. Multitasking Exercise
1. I am a great multitasker
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1. I am
2. 1 2

14. What steals time from product teams?
1. Too much Work-in-Process
2. Unknown Dependencies
3. Unplanned Work
4. Conflicting Priorities
5. Neglected Work

15. Who drove the change at Vibes?

16. Too Much Work-in-Process

17. Kanban

18. Kanban

19. Unknown Dependencies

21. How likely are
you to finish
something on
time?
No dependency
On Time 50%
Late 50%
1 dependency
On Time 25%
Late 25%
25%
25%
2 dependencies
On Time 12%
Late 12%
12%
12%
12%
12%
12%
12%

22. 3 types of dependencies
1. Activity
2. Expertise
3. Architectural

23. Activity
+

24. Expertise

25. Architectural

26. Lifetime Expectancy vs Product Completion
* US Census
** “Black Swan“ Taleb/Sam’s experience
*
**

27. Conway’s law
organizations which design systems ... are
constrained to produce designs which are
copies of the communication structures of
these organizations

28. Spotify squad model
https://vimeo.com/85490944

29. ChiPMA - Meetup
April 17th
● Matthew Schmidgall - CTO @ Network Merchants
● Jenny Wanger - Senior Product Manager @ SpotHero
● Clarke Retzer - VP Engineering @ Vibes (formerly Director of Engineering @ Here)
● Arnita Curtis - Sr. Director of Product @ Sprout Social

30. Unplanned work

31. 23 min
to recover from a distraction
Gloria Mark
Professor, UC Irvine

32. Failure Demand
demand caused by a failure to do something or
do something right for the customer

33. Plan for unplanned work

34. Neglected work

35. Tech Debt & Bugs
Q1 2018 66% of time on new features
Q2 50%

36. State of DevOps annual report

37. Conflicting Priorities

38. 5 projects to finish
+$10,000

39. OKRs
Objective: description of what to achieve
Key Result: metrics that measure progress

41. What steals time from product teams?
1. Too much Work-in-Process
2. Unknown Dependencies
3. Unplanned Work
4. Conflicting Priorities
5. Neglected Work

42. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management, Coding, Data Analytics, Digital
Marketing, UX Design and Product Leadership courses in San
Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Santa Monica, Los Angeles,
Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Denver, Orange County,
Seattle, Bellevue, Washington DC, Toronto, London and Online