Breaking into product
Product Management is the art of solving your customer’s problems to reach your business objectives
Getting Started
Great product management organizations help a company set product vision and road maps, establish goals and strategy, and drive execution on each product throughout its lifecycle.
Characteristics of great product managers
When hiring product managers, you should select for the following skills:
1. Product taste. Product taste means having the insights and intuition
The four types of product managers
The product manager you hire depends on the type of product your company is working on. Often companies need a mix of the below. Some people can function as more than one type of PM,
Product Management Principles
Principle #1: Take Ownership.
By taking ownership of the initial failure, We built trust with our team and our manager.
Thinking patterns for PMs
The patterns along with the checklists can help product leaders reduce the risk of being wrong.
Product Market fit
Product Market Fit is a magnetic force that attracts and binds customers to products.
Product manager vs project manager
Product management and project management—they sound similar, and there’s (literally) only two letters that separate them.
Product vision
A product vision, or product vision statement, describes the overarching long-term mission of your product.
Product Strategy
A product strategy is a high-level plan describing what a business hopes to accomplish with its product, and how it plans to do so
Product Capabilities
Product capabilities are the main abilities you need to have in order to perform the primary product function: defining a value-added product and getting it delivered. These capabilities are:
Product to distribution mindset
Startups tend to succeed by building a product that is so compelling and differentiated that it causes large number of customers to adopt it over an incumbent.
Interviewing PMs
When interviewing product managers, it is important to keep in mind the role you are hiring her for (see the previous section
Product roadmaps
A product roadmap is a shared source of truth that outlines the vision, direction, priorities, and progress of a product over time.
User stories
A user story is the smallest unit of work in an agile framework. It’s an end goal, not a feature, expressed from the software user’s perspective.
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Breaking into Product management
Product management overview
Great product management organizations help a company set product vision and road maps, establish goals and strategy, and drive execution on each product throughout its lifecycle.
Bad product management organizations, in contrast, largely function as project management groups, running schedules and tidying up documents for engineers.
- Getting started
- Characteristics of great product managers
- The four types of product managers
- Product Management Principles
- Thinking Patterns for PMs
- Product/Market Fit
- Product manager vs Project manager
- Product vision
- Product Strategy
- Product Capabilities
- Product to distribution mindset
- Interviewing PMs
- Product Roadmaps
- User Stories