Main takeaways:
- Insight and Experiences
- On deciding and navigating the transition
- Differences in mindset, skillset, and the nature of work
- How (and when) engineering thinking can be beneficial to Product Managers
Webinar: How to Shift into Product Management by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Strategy for personal growth in a large organization
-Being a Product Manager for enterprise tech and cloud computing
-Growing from an engineering role to a product role
-Learning on the job in an unpredictable and fast-moving environment
Understanding Iterative Prioritization by Pivotal Labs Senior PMProduct School
- Overview of a repeatable approach to iterative prioritization, regardless of the size/type/lifecycle of your product
- Understanding of how to apply the approach autonomously AND using stakeholder feedback
- Workshop style practice applying the approach
Main takeaways:
- Having a computer science degree isn't required but a thirst for technical knowledge absolutely is
- It's all about connection vs conviction - knowing when to put on which hat will go a long way in building trust with your engineering colleagues
- Proactively ask for help - you'll be surprised how much wisdom your colleagues are willing to share
Storytelling: Building Trust as a Product Ldr by Klaviyo Sr PMProduct School
- Storytelling should be proactive: By crafting a strong story that you share early and reinforce often, you can eliminate the need for more heavy handed stakeholder management tactics.
- Storytelling should be planned: To own the end-to-end narrative about your product and how you work, you need to plan ahead and develop consistent themes that help you tell this story.
- Storytelling should be personal: Spend time learning who key stakeholders at your organization are, what each stakeholder group wants to hear, and how they want to hear it.
Webinar: Effective Communication in PM by Workday Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Develop a clear understanding of your audience and bring them to a common ground.
- Deliver key messages that people will remember.
- Utilize your resources to influence others.
How to Succeed as a Non-Technical PM by Spotify's Product OwnerProduct School
Many companies require Product Managers to have a technical background - whether it be a formal Computer Science degree or experience with writing code.
"Over the years I've been self-conscious about my lack of technical background, yet I’ve learned that technical skills aren’t everything when it comes to Product Management." Jori Bell broke down the myth of needing technical skills to be a successful Product Manager.
She talked about how you need to understand the types of skills that will make you a successful Product Manager. She also discussed the importance of bringing non-technical value to a team and how to do it, and how you can build trust with a technical team.
How to Be a Successful PM: Remote Edition by Google PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Strategies to set up goals that empower you as a PM
- Productivity re-examined & redefined (remote edition)
- How to influence people & teams when you can't run into them IRL
Webinar: How to Shift into Product Management by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Strategy for personal growth in a large organization
-Being a Product Manager for enterprise tech and cloud computing
-Growing from an engineering role to a product role
-Learning on the job in an unpredictable and fast-moving environment
Understanding Iterative Prioritization by Pivotal Labs Senior PMProduct School
- Overview of a repeatable approach to iterative prioritization, regardless of the size/type/lifecycle of your product
- Understanding of how to apply the approach autonomously AND using stakeholder feedback
- Workshop style practice applying the approach
Main takeaways:
- Having a computer science degree isn't required but a thirst for technical knowledge absolutely is
- It's all about connection vs conviction - knowing when to put on which hat will go a long way in building trust with your engineering colleagues
- Proactively ask for help - you'll be surprised how much wisdom your colleagues are willing to share
Storytelling: Building Trust as a Product Ldr by Klaviyo Sr PMProduct School
- Storytelling should be proactive: By crafting a strong story that you share early and reinforce often, you can eliminate the need for more heavy handed stakeholder management tactics.
- Storytelling should be planned: To own the end-to-end narrative about your product and how you work, you need to plan ahead and develop consistent themes that help you tell this story.
- Storytelling should be personal: Spend time learning who key stakeholders at your organization are, what each stakeholder group wants to hear, and how they want to hear it.
Webinar: Effective Communication in PM by Workday Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Develop a clear understanding of your audience and bring them to a common ground.
- Deliver key messages that people will remember.
- Utilize your resources to influence others.
How to Succeed as a Non-Technical PM by Spotify's Product OwnerProduct School
Many companies require Product Managers to have a technical background - whether it be a formal Computer Science degree or experience with writing code.
"Over the years I've been self-conscious about my lack of technical background, yet I’ve learned that technical skills aren’t everything when it comes to Product Management." Jori Bell broke down the myth of needing technical skills to be a successful Product Manager.
She talked about how you need to understand the types of skills that will make you a successful Product Manager. She also discussed the importance of bringing non-technical value to a team and how to do it, and how you can build trust with a technical team.
How to Be a Successful PM: Remote Edition by Google PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Strategies to set up goals that empower you as a PM
- Productivity re-examined & redefined (remote edition)
- How to influence people & teams when you can't run into them IRL
What Not to Do as a Product Manager by Charter Communications PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- A lively talk of actionable ways to build better products, faster
- Hear operational and cultural things a PM does that slows improvements, and why
- Learn ideas for better ways to do things from someone obsessed with progress
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
Level Up Your Tech Skills to Build Better Products by Upwork PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- While it's definitely not necessary for a PM to have a CS degree or be a skilled programmer, it's important that PMs are good at systems thinking and have an understanding of how technology powers their product so that they can have high quality discussions with their technical partners - a good way to assess or test this is if you can diagram the high-level architecture of your product.
- As AI is leveraged more broadly and deeply in products, PMs have to reinforce their existing technical understanding and also incorporate a new element into their thinking - data.
- Ask your technical partners to help you learn, both in general and about your product's tech - you'll learn more quickly and also deepen your relationship with them.
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
You Are 'Your' Backlog by fmr Microsoft Prod Mgmt ConsultantProduct School
Main takeaways:
- The real reason why you should have a “deep” backlog!
- Have enough stories refined and ready, but not too much
- Developers have varying preferences for consuming information
Tips for remote product management by Amazon Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Product Management is about communicating. Remote Product Management is about communicating more.
-Send notes for each interaction. Both formal and informal. Include owner and estimated time of delivery.
-Set up recurring meetings. With key stakeholders. Keep the meeting even if the agenda is light.
-Offer full transparency. Share supporting notes even if not asked. Make the roadmap public.
-Get to know your teammates. Learn their preferred schedule. Pay attention to their environment and start conversations.
Growing Early in Your Career as a PM by Microsoft Product LeaderProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Be really intentional with how you spend your time
- Expanding your scope and becoming more strategic is key
- Invest in mentorship and self-development
A 6 Step Guide for Creating Balanced Product Teams by Pivotal Dir of Product Product School
This 6-step guide helps product teams become more balanced by sharing responsibilities across functions.
Step 1 creates psychological safety to encourage risk-taking. Step 2 establishes shared goals around balanced teams. Step 3 provides team history and benefits. Step 4 improves skills through workshops. Step 5 plans experiments in balanced practices. Step 6 checks experiment progress biweekly. Following these steps over months transitions a team from silos to shared outcomes through cross-functional collaboration.
Webinar: PM When PMs Don't Control Backlog by NBCUniversal PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Know who your customer is and be clear about what the goal the product is
- Know what your job is: avoid getting bogged down in situations that you can't fix and know when to ask for help and who to ask for help
- Learn to communicate with your development team and stakeholders to build trust and the correct product
How to Impress as a Junior Product Manager by Ritual.co PMProduct School
The document summarizes tips for junior product managers to impress stakeholders from a presentation by Ritual.co product manager Zach Lebovics. It provides advice on how to impress management by developing and owning the product roadmap, communicating early and often, and actively listening. For designers, the tips are to rally around solving user problems, bring metrics into conversations, and develop a constructive feedback system. And for engineers, the suggestions are to identify, remove, and prevent blockers, deflect praise and absorb blame, and lead by example. The presentation concludes with bonus advice on how to impress yourself through confidence and enthusiasm.
Behind the Scenes of Recruiting by fmr Amazon Recruiting ManagerProduct School
Agenda:
- Introductions
- Behind the scenes look at recruiters and how recruiters work
- Seeded Q&A (How to get my resume noticed? Why do I not hear back? Do referrals work? Resume tips)
- Open Q&A from the audience
- Live resume review
How Product Managers Can Lead a Team by fmr Pivotal Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Build psychological safety within a team: learn how to create a shared understanding within a team you lead so that team members are comfortable raising important issues or concerns
- How to facilitate constructive conflict so that obstacles and risks are identified early and often, enabling you to create opportunities to clear or address those obstacles
- When and how to practice communication techniques for the regularly scheduled meetings that are critical to team progress
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
How to Structure Your Product Thinking by Booking.com Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-The importance of starting with outcomes
-A fool-proof method to structuring your thoughts
-Why this method leads to successful results
How to Get a PM Role w/ Non-Tech Background by Salesforce PMProduct School
In this presentation, Tanvi Dali discusses how to position yourself so that your dots will connect to land you a PM opportunity in the future. For those who are already in PM, she also discusses a few tips on how to make a good first impression (within the first 90-days as a new PM) and what a typical day or week looks like as a PM at Salesforce.
Balancing PM & Software Development Practices by Splunk Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Software, Web/Mobile, Product Management and Leveraging the Cloud, AWS & Google Cloud Platform,
- Compiling Detailed Requirements and Design, UI/UX + Software Architecture & Design,
- Balancing Project Management and Software Development Practices, Agile/Scrum, and working with Engineering Teams
Product Management in Startups vs Big Org by Amazon Product LeaderProduct School
The document summarizes key differences between product management in startups versus large organizations. In startups, product managers have more ownership and accountability, with an emphasis on bias for action and solving undefined problems quickly through minimal viable products. In large companies, product management involves managing larger scopes and scales with more defined processes but less autonomy. The document advises determining the right fit based on one's strengths in customer focus, problem-solving, stakeholder management and bias for action. It promotes online courses to build product management skills for various stages of a company.
I gave this presentation as part of my talk at Product School in New York. It's primarily intended to help engineers that are transitioning to product management or new product managers. It also includes some lessons I have learned through my journey as a product manager.
The document discusses key roles in product development including product manager, UX designer, project manager, and engineering. It emphasizes the importance of the product manager's role in defining the product to be built through documents like the MRD and PRD. UX design is also highlighted as critical to ensuring the product is usable and valuable. Collaboration between these roles is important, as is testing prototypes with users and iterating based on feedback.
What Not to Do as a Product Manager by Charter Communications PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- A lively talk of actionable ways to build better products, faster
- Hear operational and cultural things a PM does that slows improvements, and why
- Learn ideas for better ways to do things from someone obsessed with progress
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
Level Up Your Tech Skills to Build Better Products by Upwork PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- While it's definitely not necessary for a PM to have a CS degree or be a skilled programmer, it's important that PMs are good at systems thinking and have an understanding of how technology powers their product so that they can have high quality discussions with their technical partners - a good way to assess or test this is if you can diagram the high-level architecture of your product.
- As AI is leveraged more broadly and deeply in products, PMs have to reinforce their existing technical understanding and also incorporate a new element into their thinking - data.
- Ask your technical partners to help you learn, both in general and about your product's tech - you'll learn more quickly and also deepen your relationship with them.
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
You Are 'Your' Backlog by fmr Microsoft Prod Mgmt ConsultantProduct School
Main takeaways:
- The real reason why you should have a “deep” backlog!
- Have enough stories refined and ready, but not too much
- Developers have varying preferences for consuming information
Tips for remote product management by Amazon Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Product Management is about communicating. Remote Product Management is about communicating more.
-Send notes for each interaction. Both formal and informal. Include owner and estimated time of delivery.
-Set up recurring meetings. With key stakeholders. Keep the meeting even if the agenda is light.
-Offer full transparency. Share supporting notes even if not asked. Make the roadmap public.
-Get to know your teammates. Learn their preferred schedule. Pay attention to their environment and start conversations.
Growing Early in Your Career as a PM by Microsoft Product LeaderProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Be really intentional with how you spend your time
- Expanding your scope and becoming more strategic is key
- Invest in mentorship and self-development
A 6 Step Guide for Creating Balanced Product Teams by Pivotal Dir of Product Product School
This 6-step guide helps product teams become more balanced by sharing responsibilities across functions.
Step 1 creates psychological safety to encourage risk-taking. Step 2 establishes shared goals around balanced teams. Step 3 provides team history and benefits. Step 4 improves skills through workshops. Step 5 plans experiments in balanced practices. Step 6 checks experiment progress biweekly. Following these steps over months transitions a team from silos to shared outcomes through cross-functional collaboration.
Webinar: PM When PMs Don't Control Backlog by NBCUniversal PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Know who your customer is and be clear about what the goal the product is
- Know what your job is: avoid getting bogged down in situations that you can't fix and know when to ask for help and who to ask for help
- Learn to communicate with your development team and stakeholders to build trust and the correct product
How to Impress as a Junior Product Manager by Ritual.co PMProduct School
The document summarizes tips for junior product managers to impress stakeholders from a presentation by Ritual.co product manager Zach Lebovics. It provides advice on how to impress management by developing and owning the product roadmap, communicating early and often, and actively listening. For designers, the tips are to rally around solving user problems, bring metrics into conversations, and develop a constructive feedback system. And for engineers, the suggestions are to identify, remove, and prevent blockers, deflect praise and absorb blame, and lead by example. The presentation concludes with bonus advice on how to impress yourself through confidence and enthusiasm.
Behind the Scenes of Recruiting by fmr Amazon Recruiting ManagerProduct School
Agenda:
- Introductions
- Behind the scenes look at recruiters and how recruiters work
- Seeded Q&A (How to get my resume noticed? Why do I not hear back? Do referrals work? Resume tips)
- Open Q&A from the audience
- Live resume review
How Product Managers Can Lead a Team by fmr Pivotal Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Build psychological safety within a team: learn how to create a shared understanding within a team you lead so that team members are comfortable raising important issues or concerns
- How to facilitate constructive conflict so that obstacles and risks are identified early and often, enabling you to create opportunities to clear or address those obstacles
- When and how to practice communication techniques for the regularly scheduled meetings that are critical to team progress
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
How to Structure Your Product Thinking by Booking.com Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-The importance of starting with outcomes
-A fool-proof method to structuring your thoughts
-Why this method leads to successful results
How to Get a PM Role w/ Non-Tech Background by Salesforce PMProduct School
In this presentation, Tanvi Dali discusses how to position yourself so that your dots will connect to land you a PM opportunity in the future. For those who are already in PM, she also discusses a few tips on how to make a good first impression (within the first 90-days as a new PM) and what a typical day or week looks like as a PM at Salesforce.
Balancing PM & Software Development Practices by Splunk Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Software, Web/Mobile, Product Management and Leveraging the Cloud, AWS & Google Cloud Platform,
- Compiling Detailed Requirements and Design, UI/UX + Software Architecture & Design,
- Balancing Project Management and Software Development Practices, Agile/Scrum, and working with Engineering Teams
Product Management in Startups vs Big Org by Amazon Product LeaderProduct School
The document summarizes key differences between product management in startups versus large organizations. In startups, product managers have more ownership and accountability, with an emphasis on bias for action and solving undefined problems quickly through minimal viable products. In large companies, product management involves managing larger scopes and scales with more defined processes but less autonomy. The document advises determining the right fit based on one's strengths in customer focus, problem-solving, stakeholder management and bias for action. It promotes online courses to build product management skills for various stages of a company.
I gave this presentation as part of my talk at Product School in New York. It's primarily intended to help engineers that are transitioning to product management or new product managers. It also includes some lessons I have learned through my journey as a product manager.
The document discusses key roles in product development including product manager, UX designer, project manager, and engineering. It emphasizes the importance of the product manager's role in defining the product to be built through documents like the MRD and PRD. UX design is also highlighted as critical to ensuring the product is usable and valuable. Collaboration between these roles is important, as is testing prototypes with users and iterating based on feedback.
Roles of a PM in a fast-shipping startupEmrah Samdan
This document summarizes a presentation about the roles and responsibilities of a product manager at different sized companies. It discusses how the role differs at an international corporation (Comodo), a grown-up startup (OpsGenie), and a baby company (Thundra). At each stage, the product manager has more responsibilities like project management, sales, HR, customer success, technical writing, and marketing in addition to core product tasks. Interacting with executives is also more direct and inclusive of company targets at smaller companies compared to larger ones.
This document provides an overview of the kick-off for the Minor Data Driven Business Lab (DDBL) and Minor IMS programs. It introduces Dries van den Enden as the minor coordinator for DDBL. The presentation covers the general introduction and qualifications of DDBL, an overview of the week's activities including pitching projects and setting up company game plans, and important dates and the weekly routine. Students will work in companies on various projects, be supported by coaches and experts, and their learning will be assessed over 18 weeks through their efforts and project work.
Product Sense (also called Product Intuition or Product Judgement) is the ability to understand what makes a product great. In other words, product sense is very important skill to all product managers. While the name sounds like you’re either born with it or you’re not, Product Sense is just a skill, and like any skill it can get better with practice. I will share my framework and learnings that has helped in improving my product sense in last two years.
Main takeaways:
- Framework of learning and improving your product sense
- Learn how to do your skill gap analysis and ideas to level up
- How to build it as a muscle and create successful products
Tips and Tricks for Product R&D by Pluralsight Product ManagerProduct School
In this presentation, Keisha Johnson, shares some tools, tips, and tricks she uses throughout the product development process. Whether it’s deciding between features or conducting user testing, there are dozens of ways to do things. As a Product Manager, you’ll need to find the ones that work best for you and your product. Keisha shares some tools and methodologies that have worked for her and explain when and how to use them.
From Engineering to Product Management by Olapic Product ManagerProduct School
Transitioning from Engineering to Product is not simply "natural." A lot of the products that we use today rely heavily on technology. However, knowing how to build the product is just one of the many important aspects in your new reality. In this talk, Janko Bazhdavela from Olapic went over how to have a successful transition between these two roles.
Main takeaways:
-Use your technical knowledge and expertise to better understand and connect
with your team
-Develop deep user empathy and try to understand all the different points of
view
-Try to understand how you, as the influencer, can help everyone
- Understand that “Why” will matter more to you than “What” and “How”
-How to be an excellent communicator and understand how to talk with different audiences
How to Transition into Product Management by Microsoft PMProduct School
In this presentation, Evelyn Tay shares:
- Some methods of switching to Product Management
- Her personal experience breaking into Product Management from the military and public sector
- Tips to ease the transition and find the niche you want in tech
How to Increase Your Product Sense by ServiceNow Senior PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Framework of learning and improving your product sense
- Learn how to do your skill gap analysis and ideas to level up
- How to build it as a muscle and create successful products
How to Transition from Engineering to Product by LinkedIn's PMProduct School
Product managers are sometimes reviled and other times revered. We went over the differences between the roles and what to expect. We discussed how to shift your thinking and start working like a product manager, and how to shift your mindset and learn to think about "why" instead of just "what".
The document discusses prioritization in product development. It provides definitions of prioritization and discusses what needs to be prioritized, such as products, features, bugs and optimizations. It also lists common questions to consider when prioritizing, such as determining customer value. Several problems in prioritization are outlined, like having too many stakeholders or an inability to measure outcomes. Solutions proposed include using data to back decisions and having sprint retrospectives. Prioritization techniques are also summarized, such as ROI analysis and engagement metrics. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of collaboration over consensus when prioritizing.
Getting Started in Project Management for Librarians - Metropolitan New York ...Lisa Chow
Whether you’re organizing an event, renovating or rearranging a space, creating a program, or implementing a grant, you’re managing a project. Project management can help you manage projects more effectively and efficiently. Learn tools and techniques for successfully planning, organizing, and administering projects. To best respond to the constantly changing library world we will be sharing principles and concepts from design thinking and agile project management.
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
Receive a basic overview of iterative and agile-like project management from a design thinking perspective
Gain knowledge to successfully manage a project cycle from start to finish through hands-on activities and exercises
Receive a project management toolkit
Learn about tools, strategies, and techniques to manage projects and teams better
What is Product Management by Symantec Sr. Product ManagerProduct School
What is product management? How can one job be so hard to define? In this presentation, John Meehan walks through the course of an average week at work, from UX meetings to engineering stand ups. John talks about the exciting parts but also the other parts that fill up a 40 hour work week.
How to Create a Robust Business Case by Splunk Product DirectorProduct School
- Ten commandments of building a business case presentation
- The methodology of building a flexible financial model, which can accompany the main presentation for those detail oriented decision makers
- Gotchas, pitfalls and techniques to keep your business case presentation on track
What is the Role of a PM by Blue Cross Blue Shield Sr.PMProduct School
The document discusses the role of a product manager based on a talk given by Blue Cross Blue Shield Sr. PM Aditya Raju. It provides an overview of the typical responsibilities of a PM, which include considering the user experience, technology, and business goals. It also outlines a sample day for a PM, which involves tasks like customer support, meetings, prototyping, and feedback. Key challenges for PMs are finding time for customer listening, learning to say no, breaking out of comfort zones, building productive teams, and managing themselves. The document emphasizes soft skills like collaboration and communication in addition to hard skills like UX design, development knowledge, and data. It concludes by noting opportunities for PMs to flex their
This document provides guidance for UX professionals aspiring to become Vice Presidents of UX. It describes the responsibilities of a UX VP, which include increasing revenue through design improvements, making UX a competitive differentiator, and leading diverse teams. It acknowledges there are fewer VP opportunities and discusses overcoming barriers such as a lack of confidence. The document recommends gaining deep expertise in areas like information architecture and becoming a "master translator" who can communicate UX value. It emphasizes the importance of serving one's team as a VP rather than focusing on individual projects or design work. The honest truth, the document notes, is that a leadership role involves taking responsibility for failures and no longer getting to work on the most interesting projects directly
What Are the Road Mapping Essentials by former Capital One PMProduct School
Product road mapping is an art, one that requires a strong pulse on the state of the business, your customers and stakeholders. Road maps are meant to provide a clear path towards reaching the business objectives giving transparency and predictability to anyone involved on the team. But how often have you heard “Hey, we are agile, we don’t need a roadmap”; or the opposite “Hey, this feature was on the roadmap, but why haven’t you delivered?”.
In this session, Angela Govila, former Product Manager at Capital One, talked about how to handle both of these situations and everything in between, by diving deep into the basics of how to conduct road mapping sessions.
This document discusses the differences between product management and project management. Product management oversees a product throughout its entire lifecycle, while project management focuses on a specific project from initiation to completion. Both roles involve identifying opportunities, guiding development teams, and monitoring progress. However, product managers ask "what" and "why" questions while project managers ask "who" and "how" questions. The document then outlines typical responsibilities and skills for product managers, project managers, and product owners. It also describes a sample day for a product manager which involves discovery, planning, execution, and growth activities.
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Webinar: The Art of Prioritizing Your Product Roadmap by AWS Sr PM - TechProduct School
The document discusses prioritizing a product roadmap by selecting parameters, scoring features, and mapping them on a value vs effort framework. It recommends clearly defining roadmap objectives, choosing a customizable framework like value vs effort, selecting parameters like revenue and customer needs for scoring features, and categorizing investments as strategic, easy wins or maintenance based on the scoring to effectively set the product direction.
Harnessing the Power of GenAI for Exceptional Product Outcomes by Booking.com...Product School
This document discusses harnessing the power of generative AI to improve product outcomes. It describes generative AI as a type of machine learning that allows computers to generate new and original ideas, like a creative chef using knowledge gained from recipes. The author discusses opportunities for generative AI across major business areas like demand generation, productivity, and products. Specific opportunities for Booking.com are explored, like better understanding customer intent and personalized recommendations. The author's vision is for systems that understand users in their natural language and help shape trip intent in a dynamic way that best serves customer needs.
Relationship Counselling: From Disjointed Features to Product-First Thinking ...Product School
The document discusses how Adyen improved its products by shifting from disjointed feature development to product-first thinking. Previously, Adyen had too many OKRs, complex metrics, and local success metrics that led to isolated components and fragmented experiences. It moved to fewer prioritized OKRs, global metrics, and end-to-end product management. This unified its offerings, improved the customer experience, and increased full funnel conversion rates by up to 300 basis points through its integrated risk, authentication, and optimization products working holistically.
Launching New Products In Companies Where It Matters Most by Product Director...Product School
This document discusses lessons learned from launching new products at large companies. It outlines three key lessons: 1) Figure out a clear strategic "why" for the new product that aligns with the company's overall strategy. 2) Really listen to stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs. 3) Assemble a cross-functional team that can get support and input from different parts of the organization, but isn't too large that it becomes unwieldy. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding strategic context, stakeholder needs, and effective team composition for successful new product launches at established companies.
Revolutionizing The Banking Industry: The Monzo Way by CPO, MonzoProduct School
Monzo is revolutionizing the banking industry by taking a customer-first approach called "The Monzo Way." This involves starting from first principles, building products through constant dialogue with users, and piloting internally before growth. Monzo gathers extensive customer feedback and has conducted over 500 research interviews and reports. It strives for industry-leading customer service and uses this research to develop innovative new products for investments and home ownership tailored to customer needs. Monzo's community-focused approach has helped it become the UK's highest rated bank for overall service quality for four years running.
Synergy in Leadership and Product Excellence: A Blueprint for Growth by CPO, ...Product School
This document discusses synergy between leadership and product excellence. It provides a blueprint for growth with three pathways: 1) an agile, retrospective culture, 2) rapid learning and experimentation, and 3) transparency and feedback culture. Ultimately, career fulfillment comes from aligning skills and passions, whether as an individual contributor or manager, by embracing what brings joy and taking a holistic approach to growth.
Act Like an Owner, Challenge Like a VC by former CPO, TripadvisorProduct School
The document discusses how product teams can act like owners and investors to maximize returns. It recommends following three principles: 1) The investment principle - treat time as an investment that should generate ROI. 2) The capping principle - limit ambitions based on discovery. 3) The portfolio principle - allocate resources across a portfolio of high-risk/high-reward, medium-risk, and low-risk/low-hanging fruit initiatives based on their potential ROI. Managing product work like a VC portfolio can help product teams act like owners and challenge stakeholders to seek maximum returns.
The Future of Product, by Founder & CEO, Product SchoolProduct School
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
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7. Key topics
1. Guideposts
○ ..for plotting a path towards a product role
2. Advantages and hurdles
○ ..for PM’s coming from engineering to be aware of
3. Reflections
○ ..on differences in the nature of the work and responsibilities
8. Who this talk is for
1. Engineers
○ ..considering or actively moving into Product Management
2. Product and Engineering Managers
○ ...with engineers on their teams who are interested in making the transition
3. Other roles
○ ..that are looking to make a lateral career move into product
Anyone interested in an engineer’s perspective on product management.
9. A little about me
● Digital art and graphic design in high school led me to web development
and software engineering
● Studied C.S and Economics at a liberal arts college
● Considered the PM route as a new grad. Ultimately chose to start in
engineering
● Built and launched B2B products as a full-stack engineer and tech lead
● Transitioned into PM while taking a product from zero to one
10. If you’re an engineer and think you might want to be a PM, first...
12. ● Technical partner in the product development process
● Execute on engineering with pragmatic focus on business impact and ROI
● Deep knowledge of the product and genuine user empathy
● Strong communication skills and cross-functional collaboration ability
The Product Engineer
13. ● Intuition on what makes a product great that can inform decision making
● Start by understanding the goals of your product, business, and users
● Think critically about every feature you build - don’t be a “code monkey”
○ Analyze how features solve specific problems for the user
○ Explore and evaluate other options
● Constantly be asking questions, especially “why”
○ Don’t be satisfied with just the “how” and the “what”
○ Exercise: Whenever you realize “that’s a product question”, go through the exercise of
answering it yourself first
● Study the results and impact of what you build
○ How do users react? What caused confusion? What drove business impact?
Develop your product sense
14. ● Build user empathy - it will make you a better engineer and future PM
● Develop a genuine interest in the users your product serves
● Participate in any opportunities to learn about them
○ e.g User research
○ Answering and reading support tickets
● Use your own product! (if practical)
● Deeply understanding your product and users gives you a foundation
to build on top of
Know your users and your product domain
15. ● Understand where engineering fits in the product development lifecycle
● Reflect on your engagement with PM’s as an engineer
○ What as an engineer do you like/dislike and value in a PM?
○ What is the process and interaction between engineering and product?
○ How do PM’s inspire and motivate engineers?
● Strive to be a strong technical partner to product - learn what makes a good
relationship
Master eng <> product collaboration
16. Study and do your product homework
1. Research and learn about the work of a PM
○ Plenty of books, courses, online resources available
○ Specifically research: what would the PM role at your company look like
2. Talk to your PM and other PM’s in your company/industry
○ Learn through second-hand experience
3. Volunteer to help your current PM
○ Begin getting first-hand experience of what the role entails
17. Build relevant skills through your eng role
1. Leadership
○ Become accountable for more than your own work. Rally a team around an initiative.
2. Project management
○ Organize and manage tasks and milestones for projects with multiple stakeholders.
3. Cross-team alignment
○ Seek opportunities to collaborate with other teams (e.g platforms, cross-functions)
4. Written and oral communication
○ Produce technical docs and presentations
18. Find and develop in the right environment
● Look for companies/teams with growing products and expanding scope
○ Roles and opportunities grow with the business
○ Typically you’ll transition within the same company and team
○ Transitioning in-place lets you leverage existing domain knowledge and expertise
● Build a track record of competence and execution ability
○ Your role transition is a “risk” investment - show that you’re a good bet
○ Prove you’re able to “get stuff done”
○ Gain support and advocates from teammates that know your work
20. State your “why”
● Clearly state your reasons and goals for making this transition
● For yourself
○ Knowing your “why” will help push you through the challenge ahead
○ Documenting your thought process will be invaluable when reflecting down the line
● For others
○ Being able to clearly communicate your goals and motivations helps others in being able
to support you
21. Gather support and find the right opportunity
● Discuss with your manager, product lead, and supporting team
○ Your success in both transitioning and being a PM depends heavily on the support of those
around you
● Identify the right opportunities for you
○ Leverage your domain expertise and experience
○ Scope will likely be in proportion to the credibility you’ve built
● Clearly define the parameters and process
○ Projects and responsibilities you will take on and/or give up during the transition
○ Timeframe and objectives
22. Separate your engineer and product responsibilities
● Don’t be both the PM and engineer
responsible for building a project
○ You’ll be negotiating with yourself on scope
○ Being the “builder” introduces too strong of a bias
● Not representative of the actual role and
dynamic of PM
○ You won’t get an accurate sampling of the job
● If juggling both responsibilities, at least
separate role by project
23. On Mindset
● Step up, do the work, embrace the learning required
○ There’s no substitute for doing the work
● Be ready to put in the effort required to grow into this new role
● Any transition is going to be challenging - be prepared to not be good at
things, but willing to adapt quickly
○ Humility and beginner’s mind
25. Advantage: Technical “Perks”
1. “Technical” sense
○ Intuition on scope and technical feasibility of potential
projects/features
○ Ability to communicate technical concepts
2. Ability to answer your own questions
○ Get answers from data, check systems/tools/dashboards, debug
issues quicker
○ Keep your teammates working on their primary tasks
3. Efficiencies in automations
○ Ability to fill in gaps operationally to assist different roles/functions
without spending engineering resources
26. Advantage: Engineering respect and trust
● First-hand eng experience builds true empathy and trust
○ You understand technical debt, trade-offs, outages
● Ability to lead a well-aligned product and engineering machine
○ Ability to communicate and understand engineering trade-offs
○ Allows you to scope releases more flexibly, and move with a more agile team
● You should know how to unblock this function better than any other
○ You know what slows engineering down and can pre-empt it
■ Dependencies, unclear requirements, missing content or designs
27. 1. Technical pragmatism can limit your ability to think creatively
○ Great product/engineering development requires both side to push effectively
Hurdle: Your technical thinking can limit you
28. 2. Risk of over-emphasize engineering concerns and discounting other
important functions
29. Hurdle: Overly solutions focused
● The engineering instinct is to immediately go through solutions
● PM’s need to first make sure they’re solving the right and most
important problems
○ Remember: PROBLEMS over SOLUTIONS
30. Advantage: Systems thinking
1. Breaking down problems and managing
complexity
○ Identifying key components of a problem
○ ex: Actors and interactions, user flows, customer
segments
31. 2. Managing the system of you and your team’s ability to build the best product
32. Hurdle: Expanding your communication style
● In engineering, a majority of communication is with other engineers
○ Style is direct, practical, and assumes understanding of technical complexity
● Engineers turned PM’s need to learn how to communicate with each
function
○ Each function and role has their own culture and terminology
○ Requires ability to frame things in terms they understand
● Internal vs. external communication
○ Talking with customers and partners
○ Talking with your team, organization, and leadership
34. Nature of Work
1. Importance of organizational metaskills
○ Communication and decision making - email, calendar, docs, task management
2. Day-to-day work schedule
○ Learn to effectively run and select the right meetings
3. Actively engaged with many more threads
○ Eng are usually deeply focused on a few tasks; PM’s can be engaged on dozens at a time
○ Requires:
■ Ability to quickly get back to speed on a multiple projects
■ Deliberate prioritization and time-blocking of the most important work
35. Working with ambiguity
● Engineers work in a world of precision
○ Ex: Code runs deterministically, task estimates require accuracy
● Product managers have to think a lot more in unknowns and bets
○ You never know with certainty how users or the market will react, what risks are issues will
come up in development and integrations
● Requires a different decision making process
○ Make the best decision you can, with the information and time available
○ Learning to be comfortable with a degree of uncertainty is a key challenge for engineers
36. Relationships and communication
● Your ability to enact change is highly tied to the relationships
you build with your team and other functions
● Building these relationships requires you to see your
communications as part of your craft
○ Recording decisions to drive alignment
○ Establish who needs to be informed of what information when
37. You lead through assists, not points
1. You’re unblocking and aligning teammates to do their best work
2. You’re no longer an “expert”
○ Engineers code, designers design, sales sell..
○ Your job is to assist, support, and enable others toward a shared vision
3. If you’re an expert in anything, it’s understanding the customer, market, and
your team’s ability to serve it
38. Sources of satisfaction
● Engineering satisfaction is direct and tangible
○ E.g shipping a feature, finding a bug
● Satisfaction for PM’s is much less so
○ The results of your work are not as obviously and immediately felt
○ Find small wins - areas where you feel you’re moving the team forward
● Satisfaction for PM’s typically comes on a longer timescale
○ Seeing the impact your decisions and work have on users and the business
39. Tip: Record and reflect your journey
1. Write down milestones, decisions, lessons
○ Externalizing these will help in your learning and decision process
2. Write down and reflect on the activities and results that you resonate with
○ Reflect and figure out what you enjoy and what you find tedious
For myself - the experience and feeling of a team building momentum
40. Takeaways
● Develop product skills in your role as an engineer
● Build trust and a track record
● Find and develop in the right environment/team
● Understand the role and your own goals
● State your “why”
● Recognize your eng background will give unique advantages and hurdles
● Be ready to put in the work to learn, unlearn, and grow