This document discusses resources from Product School for product managers, including courses on product management, coding for managers, data analytics for managers, and digital marketing for managers. It provides an overview of speakers for an event, including David Lichtenstein, and tips for thriving in the first 90 days as a product manager, such as going on a listening tour, getting to know your teammates, building relationships with technical leads and users, prioritizing issues in Jira, tracking projects in AirTable, and building a roadmap with ProductPlan.

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7. David
Lichtenstein
TONIGHT’S SPEAKERS

8. What’s your superpower?

10. People
Projects
Plans

11. Go on a listening tour

12. 1-on-1s
● Development team
● Tech lead
● Manager
● Head of product
● Head of business unit

13. Senior full stack engineer who works
independently on big projects from start to finish
Mid-level full stack engineer who works with
tech lead and senior engineers on architecture
and design
Junior engineer who works on small projects
closely with a lot of guidance

14. Get to know your teammates
● What kind of projects do they like?
● What are their strengths and areas for
improvement?
● How do they prefer to communicate?
● What brought them to your company?
● What are their interests outside of work?

15. Build a strong relationship with your tech lead
● What keeps you up at night?
● What’s going well with the current process?
Not going well?
● How can I help make the development
process run more smoothly?

16. Talk to your users and customers
● Schedule a 20-30 minute interview with a
customer every week
● Gmelius is a great tool for sending
personalized email blasts from your Gmail
account

19. Jira Tips
1. Order your backlog by priority
2. Link every issue to an epic
3. Groom every day
4. Version your releases

20. Set the stage for a successful sprint

21. Running your first sprint
● Two weeks, starting on Wednesday
● Sprint planning for 1-2 hours
● Set sprint goals collaboratively
● Estimates vs #NoEstimates
● Sprint retrospective for 30 minutes
Week 1
M - Scrum
T - Scrum
W - Scrum
Th - Scrum
F - Release
Week 2
M - Scrum
T - Pre-planning
W - Retrospective & Sprint Planning
Th - Scrum
F - Release

22. Tracking project status with AirTable

23. Figuring out the right problems to solve

24. Simple prioritization with RICE
● Reach
● Impact
● Confidence
● Effort
1000 customers x 2 (medium impact) x 50% confidence x 2 person-months =
2000 RICE score

25. Starts with why
● What is the problem?
● Why should we fix the problem?
● How might we solve this problem?
● How do we measure success?
● What’s the scope of the solution?

26. Building a roadmap with ProductPlan

28. What’s your superpower?

29. Communication!

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