Spoke about how PMs could potentially mindfully explore the different facets of PM-ship, discover their strengths, and build a rock solid PM portfolio. You are what you build.

1. Building a
rock-solid PM
portfolio
Chandramouli Gopalakrishnan
VP (Special Projects)

2. How did I land up as a PM ...
About a decade of
engineering stuff ...
Microsoft Program
Manager - SQl Server
Best days of my life …
(so far)
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3. What is
Product
Management?
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4. Visionary Driver of
the mission
UX
owner
Wrangle the data
Project Manage - Create / Track
Take Decisions Manage the stakeholders
Communicator
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5. PM
your
PM profile!
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6. PM Personas
(specializations, if you will …)
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7. The Dreamer
(mini CEO anyone?)
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8. Customer
Champion
Know the user inside out.
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9. Data Wizard
Data / Inference / Intuition
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10. Tactical Ninja
Ship it!
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11. Figure out who you are.
(What doesn’t feel like work?)
And yes, this can evolve.
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12. Incrementally
strengthen your
base strengths …
(And be cognizant about it)
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13. Step up and take
ownership of projects
Don’t wait for them to be given to
you
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14. Data and its impact.
Never lose sight of it.
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15. Thought Clarity and
Communication skills
Super super important
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16. Read. Read. And read
some more.
Tech stuff. Product stuff. Ecosystem
stuff.
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17. Network / make friends.
Be genuine about it.
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18. Give back.
Blog. Write. Volunteer. Teach.
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19. My PM Interviews
Behavioral technique.
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20. Questions / Discussion
Reach Mouli at: gcmouli@gmail.com | @gcmouli | http://in.linkedin.com/in/gcmouli
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