Main takeaways: - Thinking of changing role to PM? Learn about the common guiding principles of the role. - Joining soon as a PM, what to do in the first few months? - Day in life of a Product Manager - typical activities and stakeholders.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager
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10. Vishal Singh
T O N I G H T ’ S S P E A K E R

11. A Day in the Life of a Product Manager
Vishal Singh, Director Of Product Management, Oracle

12. Agenda
● About Me & My Product Management Journey
● Guiding Principles of Product Management
● Day in Life of a PM - Typical activities & stakeholders
● First few months as a PM
● Q&A

13. About Me
● Director of Product Management at
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
● Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Web
Services, AWS Lambda
● Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft -
Bing, Bing Ads, Lync, & Skype
● Software Developer and Consultant

14. My Product Management Journey
-> Software Developer
-> Consultant
-> Technical Program Manager
-> Product Manager

15. Program Manager vs Product Manager
Technical Program Managers ensure timely and quality delivery
of the product. TPMs are champions of cross team collaboration
& project management.
Product Managers ensure product exceeds customer
expectations with stakeholder management. PMs are Voice of
the Customers.

16. Why I choose to be a PM?
● Defining product
● Working with People
● Solving challenging, complex problems
● Making customers happy & productive!

17. Guiding Principles of Product Management
● It’s all about Customers
● … and Product (vision, strategy,
Market)
● … and People
● … and Communications
● … and Decision Making (hopefully
data-driven and test driven)
● Feedback driven (Qualitative,
Quantitative)

18. Stakeholders
Business & Legal
Engineering
Solution Architects
Partners
Management
Marketing
Sales & BizDev
Technical Content
Customer Support

19. Day in Life - Typical activities & stakeholders
Customer Feedback
Backlog &
Prioritization
Product Definition
Customer Experience
Scoping & Development
Readiness
GTM
GA
Product Manager
Stakeholder
meetings
Stakeholders

20. First few months as a PM...
● Know your customer (“Put Customers first”)
● Know your product - market, uniqueness, how does it help,
backlog (“Deep dive”)
● Know your stakeholders (“Earn Trust, Give Trust”)
● Deliver i.e, Early wins (“Act Now, Iterate”)

21. Q&A

22. Thanks!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsi/
Twitter: @Vishalsi5

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