As Product Managers, we spend most of our time thinking about everyone but ourselves. We are focused on helping our team of engineers, designers, stakeholder and users move ahead. However, sometimes it can be hard to get quality feedback for ourselves. Software development cycles typically have built in review and feedback for the work of engineers and designers. Yet, in many cases, no one is really reviewing a Product Managers processes. Yasi Chehroudi talked about how a Product Manager can seek out product mentorship/learning, actively have their own processes reviewed and how that can help them and their team.

1. What Are PM’s Learning Processes by
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10. Learn to
be a PM
Be a PM
Then
What?

11. There is a drop off in learning for PMs

12. PM
Design
Engineering
QA
Marketing
Data Science

13. There is typically a culture of LEARNING NEW PROCESSES
and WORK PRODUCT REVIEW amongst the other disciplines.
Ex.
Engineering - Code Reviews, QA, Need to learn new languages
Design - Design Reviews, Learn new tools
As the central communicator, you are helping to enable to
review process within and across each discipline
But who reviews the PMs work?

14. Everyone Learns Differently!
Reading (Blogs, Articles)
Watching (Talks)
Listening (Podcasts)
Doing (?)

15. The Craft of
Product
Management
Cross Over
Skills
Communication
and Negotiation
Areas of Learning

16. Cross Over Skills
PMs should find some area to gain a deeper expertise in.
Research
Data
Science
Design
Engineering
Marketing
Sales

17. Cross Over Skills
PASSIVE
Online courses (codecademy, edx,
coursera, udemy, skillshare,
youtube)
In person courses (GA, Product
School)
ACTIVE
Identify and cultivate Discipline
Mentors
Find opportunities to help out in
those areas AT WORK
Work on side projects
Teach classes!

18. Vulnerability is KEY

19. Communicative and Negotiation
PASSIVE
Teacher Training (Relay GSE)
Personality Science (MBTI,
enneagram)
Read Books
ACTIVE
Practice outside of work! (with your
boyfriend, family, friends, etc)
Side Projects / Consulting

20. Craft of Product Management
PASSIVE
Blogs / Influencers
ACTIVE
Structure Work Product to be more
Collaborative
Identify and Cultivate Product
Mentors
Shadow Other PMs
Switch jobs!

21. Structure Work Product to be more Collaborative
1. Google Docs / Sheets - Increases Collaboration
1. Epic Kick Off Documents (EXAMPLE)
1. Have a Product Workbook ** Do NOT plan Epics and Tickets straight
into project management tool** (EXAMPLE)
1. Create a culture of transparency and review by non-product team
members

22. Identify and Cultivate Product Mentors
1. Who is a good product mentor?
1. Keeping mentors up to date on your work is critical
1. Getting micro level feedback is key - pull up actual work product or
share work in advance and ask for comments and direct edits

23. Shadow Other PMs
1. Make the time to shadow other PMs processes
1. Don’t have other PMs at your office or don’t think they are great
examples?
a. Find Mentors outside of your organization - Set up a meeting to
have them walk you through their process and work product
examples - focus on step by step processes and output review

24. My Personal Learning Strategy
CROSS OVER SKILLS - Design: Sketch Together Tutorials, Side Projects /
Consulting, Meeting with Mentors, Ideo U courses (Insights for Innovation)
COMMUNICATION / NEGOTIATION - Teacher Training programs and Personality
Sciences (Relay GSE, Brene Brown)
CRAFT OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - Built-in Processes at Work, Meetings with
Mentors (at work and outside work), Some Blogs / Articles

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Tell us about yourself
- Name
- Job Title
- Where do you work?
- How many PMs are there?
- What is your learning strategy?
- What are your tips?

26. Thank you!
yasichehroudi@gmail.com

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