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Product Managers want the latest Macbook Pro with M1 Max chip to finally write
"As a user, I want to..." on a JIRA ticket.
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At Facebook/Meta, Product Managers do not write user stories, run sprints, write requirement documents or write tickets,
Here's what happens instead:
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Product Manager's Toolkit 📦 for Writing Great Documents 📜
Featuring: PRD templates/ Writing Tips / One pager templates and case studies.
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Former VP of Product, Netflix
@gibsonbiddle
's Product Strategy essays are GOLD!
If you haven't read them yet, here's a breakdown of key concepts in under 2 minutes🧵
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Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
vs
Minimum Marketable Product (MMP)
vs
Minimum Lovable Product (MLP)
explained in <5 mins 🧵
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Elon buying Twitter took less time than companies completing product manager interview process.
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5 frameworks from consulting companies that help in Product:
1/ Ansoff Matrix
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Product Management
vs.
Project Management
vs.
Program Management
Let us know the difference
🧵
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Great tools for PMs:
Surveys:
@SurveyMonkey
,
@typeform
Project Mgmt:
@trello
,
@asana
,
@Jira
Roadmaps:
@ProductPlan
,
@RoadmunkApp
OKRs:
@ProdPad
,
@huminosHQ
Whiteboarding:
@MiroHQ
,
@MURAL
Design:
@figma
,
@InvisionStudio_
User Analytics:
@CleverTap
,
@Amplitude_HQ
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Spent last 6 months studying the most effective Strategy frameworks from the best product and business thinkers.
They are must-have for Product Managers, Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
➡️ Here's your Product Strategy Toolkit 💼
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Product Manager's Toolkit 📦 for Writing Great Documents 📜
Featuring: PRD templates/ Writing Tips / One pager templates and case studies.
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Get smart at writing documents.
Here are One Pager Templates for Product Managers🧵
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These 10 sections make a PRD / Product Document complete.
Let us get into What are those and Why.
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10 McKinsey exclusive frameworks for Product Managers, Business Leaders, Marketers and Strategists:
Explained in a single thread:
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>100 Product Management and Tech books out there.
But which book to read? What fits YOUR situation?
In next 5 mins, I want to help you choose the next book to read in product/tech🧵
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Product Manager's Toolbox
From User Research to Product Strategy - the five must have's
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5 must-ask questions for evaluating new product opportunities:
1. Who is the customer? (Segment)
2. How do we know their problems? (Discovery)
3. How do we reach out to them? (Go To Market)
4. How do we iterate/ scale? (Roadmap)
5. How do we know we are succeeding? (Metrics)
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Prioritisation is a key skill for anyone in product or tech.
Here are 5 most effective prioritisation frameworks with examples
🧵
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10 concepts for PMs & Business Leaders:
🧵
1/ Kano Model (Prioritisation)
2/ 7 Powers (Strategy)
3/ CIRCLES (Interviews)
Strategy essays from:
4/ Gibson Biddle
5/ Melissa Perri
6/ Roman Pichler
7/ Consulting Models
8/ Porter's 5 Forces
9/ Elena's PLG
10/ Differentiation Models
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The first 90 days for a Product Manager:
1. Study the dashboards and metrics
2. Read previous user research
3. Meet key stakeholders
4. Access & read PRDs
5. Know Why we are doing what we are doing
6. Understand the Objectives & Roadmap
7. Where do we want to go in next 6 months
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At Booking .com, I spent lot of time A/B experimenting every single of the product features.
66% of features didn't meet the experiment performance criteria, and did not go live.
Sharing my top 5 learnings that will help you experiment better:
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If you are a PM or a and want to move to Product Leadership Position (Group PM/Dir. of Product/Head of Product),
Here are 5 things you should be doing in your day-to-day already:
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Here's a screenshot of what's getting ready to be dropped soon, the most extensive and researched toolkit for Product Managers🔥
Do you see anything missing? What kind of frameworks/templates/samples would you be interested in?
Comment👇
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If you are a PM or a and want to move to Product Leadership Position (Group PM/Dir. of Product/Head of Product),
Here are 5 things you should be doing in your day-to-day already:
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Product Manager's Toolkit 📦 for Writing Great Documents 📜
Featuring: PRD templates/ Writing Tips / One pager templates and case studies.
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Not everything has to be a PRD.
Here are 5 kind of short-form documents that get the job done for product managers
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Product Manager's checklist:
- Dashboards/Metrics
- Customer Service Channel Reports
- Rollout Strategy
- Positioning of your product
- Product Vision & Strategy
- Roadmap to achieve Outcomes
- Documents/ PRDs
- Development Plan
- Internal/ External Comms
- Competitive Research
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CIRCLES method is a great way to structure problem solving and also perform well in product design interviews.
Here's all you need to know in <5 mins 🧵
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Do you know what Engineers expect from Product Managers?
Here's your go-to list🧵
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Do you know what Engineers expect from Product Managers?
Here's your go-to list🧵
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Kano Model is one of the most under-utilised analysis to prioritise product features in Businesses.
What if you could know which features customers would absolutely love/hate/neutral?
Here's all you need to know to apply Kano analysis, summarised in <5 mins
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PRD templates for Product Managers to get started.
Get them here:
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Product Market Fit (PMF)
vs.
Product-User Fit (PUF)
Explained in < 5 mins 🧵
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For the first 10 years of my career, I was doing presentations to senior executives wrong.
I was giving all the facts, and then summarizing towards the end.
There is a better way.
The McKinsey Pyramid Principle explained below in <5 mins:
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10 dashboards and metrics that every Product Manager should know and use:
(explained with graphs and examples)
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How does Spotify build products?
A little secret is the DIBB framework to arrive at Strategy.
Let us learn about DIBB framework in < 2 mins:
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Looking to assess your own Product Management skills?
Assessments are great way to be know where you lack and where you're strong.
Here are my three favourite frameworks to assess yourself
🧵
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Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
vs
Minimum Marketable Product (MMP)
vs
Minimum Lovable Product (MLP)
explained in <5 mins 🧵
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97
446
Difference between:
Organisation Vision
vs
Organisation Strategy
vs
Product Strategy
vs
Product Roadmap
explained in <5 mins: 🧵
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10 dashboards and metrics that every Product Manager should know and use:
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Context switching is draining & is the most under-appreciated skillset of product managers.
Chart from McKinsey: Where do PMs spend time?
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How does Spotify build products?
A little secret is the DIBB framework to arrive at strategic bets.
Audiobooks, Podcasts and many other products started with this little way of thinking.
Let us learn about DIBB framework in < 2 mins:
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Product Market Fit (PMF)
vs.
Product-User Fit (PUF)
Explained in < 5 mins 🧵
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Scaled companies CANNOT afford to launch MVPs to public.
Apple as a principle doesn't build MVPs.
Here's the story about how Apple builds products, and what you can learn from it:
(in <2 mins)
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Here is how Uber, Slack, Instagram, Pinterest, Uber and many others build growth loops, explained in < 3 mins
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At Booking .com, I spent lot of time A/B experimenting every single of the product features.
66% of features didn't meet the experiment performance criteria, and did not go live.
Sharing my top 5 learnings that will help you experiment better:
🧵
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'Product Sense' interview rounds are becoming common for Product Management roles.
You're asked about your favorite product and then asked follow-up questions on it.
Here are 4 traits to demonstrate in these rounds and come out a winner.
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If the engineering team is motivated, half of your PM troubles dissolve.
Here are 5 pointers for a happy engineering team, learnt from my day-to-day experience
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Product Managers often are told to analyse the competition.
But very few PMs understand Porter's 5 Forces Framework that determines profitability of an industry.
Here's all you need to know in <5 mins
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Product Managers can automate their daily work.
Imagine if you could send out minutes of the meeting automatically ⚡️
or record high priority customer service tickets 🤔
Here are 4 no-code automation ideas for PMs explained in <2 mins
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One pagers are great way to drive decisions. Here’s an effective one pager format:
1. Objective of document
2. Background of Problem Statement
3. Recommendation / Way Forward
4. Reasoning behind recommendation
5. Next Steps
Stick to 2 to 4 lines per section.
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First 90 days for a product manager:
1. Meet important stakeholders
2. Collect and read relevant documents (PRDs/Design/Research)
3. Get access to dashboards
4. Understand key product/business metrics
5. Use the product you're going to handle
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🎁🎁FREE FOR 72 HOURS🎁🎁
A must-have Product Strategy Guide for anyone building products in 2023.
Includes 5 greatest strategy methodologies from product leaders at Meta, Netflix, Stanford and more.
To get it:
- Like and Retweet
- Reply 'PSG'
- Follow me (so I can DM you)
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Books like INSPIRED by
@cagan
have created an army of PMs and leaders who exactly know how to sound 'wise' , often using the language of the book in their day to day and even in interviews. But they haven't really done the hard stuff themselves or learnt from patterns that emerge
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Product Vision:
The Why behind the Product
Product Strategy:
How to achieve the Vision, and by solving which problems?
Product Discovery:
Figure out which ideas to test to solve the problems
Product Delivery:
Roll out feature(s) into the market to validate the need
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Product Manager's checklist:
- Dashboards/Metrics
- Customer Service Channel Reports
- Rollout Strategy
- Positioning of your product
- Product Vision & Strategy
- Roadmap to achieve Outcomes
- Documents/ PRDs
- Development Plan
- Internal/ External Comms
- Competitive Research
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391
5 frameworks from top consulting companies that help in Product and Business:
1/ Ansoff Matrix
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Don't get me wrong.
I don't hate sprints or JIRA tickets.
But : Is it the Product Manager who should be doing this?
Here's 3 things to learn from Product development at Facebook: ( in <2 mins)
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A short lesson on : What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? 🚀
in under 5 mins
🧵
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Here's your guide on which skills you need at each step of Product Management ladder:
1.Associate PM
2. PM
3. Sr PM
4. Group PM
5. Director PM
explained in <5mins:
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Product Vision:
The Why behind the Product
Product Strategy:
How to achieve the Vision, and by solving which problems?
Product Discovery:
Figure out which ideas to test to solve the problems
Product Delivery:
Roll out feature(s) into the market to validate the need
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Five visuals that help you become better at Product Thinking
1/ User Retention
Key to product market fit. But it is not only about retaining existing users, it is about an ongoing cycle of converting:
Churned users -> resurrected users -> current users -> power users
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Learn 10 product management fundamentals in this one single thread:
1.Getting into PM
2.Product Roadmaps
3.User Personas
4.Product Marketing
5.Product Analytics
6. Building MVPs
7. Product Market Fit
8. Product Design
9. Product Launch
10. Product Strategy
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In Product Management Interviews:
Product Sense Interview round has become the go-to method for big tech companies to figure out candidate's:
1. Structured Thinking
2. User Empathy
Here's my biggest takeaway that has helped me clear every product sense interview round 🧵
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5 must-ask questions for evaluating new product opportunities:
1. Who is the customer? (Segment)
2. How do we know their problems? (Discovery)
3. How do we reach out to them? (Go To Market)
4. How do we iterate/ scale? (Roadmap)
5. How do we know we are succeeding? (Metrics)
8
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371
Five common mistakes I see candidates making in product and engineering (manager) role interviews
Sharing my observations as an interviewer
🧵
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5 frameworks from consulting companies that help in Product:
1/ Ansoff Matrix
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Get better at Product Manager interviews🚀
Featuring: Frameworks, Preparation Material, Common Mistakes, Inside Stories and more.
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354
5 frameworks from top consulting companies that help in Product and Business:
1/ Ansoff Matrix
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355
CIRCLES method is a great way to structure problem solving and also perform well in product design interviews.
Here's all you need to know in <5 mins 🧵
9
54
352
Here's your guide on which skills you need at each step of Product Management ladder:
1.Associate PM
2. PM
3. Sr PM
4. Group PM
5. Director PM
explained in <5mins:
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351
As a Product Manager, it is important to build a great relationship with your product leader (Head of Product/Dir. of Product/CPO)
Here are some time-tested ways to be good at 'Managing Up;:
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There's no better time to be a Product Manager in Fintech, than now.
Every big-scale company will either become a fintech company or service one.
Here are 5 principles of becoming top Fintech PM from my 7 years product experience in the field
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As a Product Manager, ask hard questions often:
1) What can be removed from scope?
2) Why are we doing this feature?
3) Why did we fail on our OKRs?
4) What were the mistakes we repeated?
5) Is the senior management right?
6) Is the product culture a priority?
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338
Learn 10 product management fundamentals in this one single thread: (+TEMPLATES):
1.Getting into PM
2.Product Roadmaps
3.User Personas
4.Product Marketing
5.Product Analytics
6. Building MVPs
7. Product Market Fit
8. Product Design
9. Product Launch
10. Product Strategy
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Five to-do's in a Product Manager's day:
1. Check the dashboards
2. Ensure development is moving forward
3. Ensure all meetings have agendas and you know what you want from them
4. Do a status check on your week/ month's progress
5. Ensure active communication to stakeholders
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5 key business metrics for product managers:
1. Cost of Acquisition of Customer
2. Customer Lifetime Value
3. Gross and Operating Margin of the product
4. Efficiency of user conversion funnel (ex. cycle time)
5. Customer Engagement & Retention per Cohort or Segment
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Difference between:
Organisation Vision
vs
Organisation Strategy
vs
Product Strategy
vs
Product Roadmap
explained in <5 mins: 🧵
10
59
333
First 90 days for a product manager:
1. Meet important stakeholders
2. Collect and read relevant documents (PRDs/Design/Research)
3. Get access to dashboards
4. Understand key product/business metrics
5. Use the product you're going to handle
6. Know customer segment behaviors
9
39
331
If you're in product/tech, you should know:
Four ways to structure Product teams:
1. User Type
2. User Journey
3. Business Value
4. Feature
Four types of Product teams:
1. Stream-aligned
2. Platform
3. Enabling
4. Sub-system teams
Let us learn about them in <5 mins:
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Starting with a wheel or a skateboard and eventually delivering a car to the user was never digestible to me when it comes to MVP mindset.
This picture below is little bit more accurate.
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5 frameworks from top consulting companies that help in Product and Business:
1/ Ansoff Matrix
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Five to-do's in a Product Manager's day:
1. Check the dashboards
2. Ensure teams are unblocked
3. Ensure all meetings have agendas and expected outcomes
4. Do a status check on your week/ month's progress
5. Ensure active communication to stakeholders
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Got a few minutes?
Learn 6 important strategy concepts, each
explained in <2 mins each:
1/ Kano Model (Prioritization)
2/ 7 Powers (Strategy)
3/ CIRCLES (Interviews)
4/ Consulting Frameworks
5/ Porter's 5 Forces
6/ Product Differentiation Models
Let's go:
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As a Product Manager, ask hard questions often:
1) What can be removed from scope?
2) Why are we doing this feature?
3) Why did we fail on our OKRs?
4) What were the mistakes we repeated?
5) Is the senior management right?
6) Is the product culture a priority?
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OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are often implemented with good intentions but still fail to create results.
Here are top reasons why Organisations unintentionally end up creating 'OKR Theater'
🧵
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If you want to learn about Product Strategy..
But haven't yet heard about
@romanpichler
's Product Strategy Cycle. you're missing the key link between strategy and execution.
Here is a thread of its key concepts in under 2 mins
🧵
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I have interviewed >100 Product Managers in my career.
I can tell you that the average candidates make some common mistakes.
Here are the top 5 mistakes to avoid:
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In last 4 years, I have worked in 4 countries with top tech companies of the globe.
There is no better time than 2023 to explore new countries, especially if you're in tech.
Here are 10 countries you should consider, when applying for a digital nomad visa:
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Want to write a great PRD?
These 5 sections are highly recommended:
(Learn in <2 mins)
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Early in PM career, while working on roadmaps, I often used to ask myself: But, whats the strategy? 🤨
And later in career while working on product strategies: Are the roadmaps reflecting the strategy? 🤨
Finally I figured I was asking seeking answers to wrong questions
🧵
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Stanford, Google, Hardvard and more- are offering free courses on AI.
Prompt engineering, Conversational AI, Natural Language Processing & more - drives today's AI applications.
So, I went around the internet to look for the best learning tools.
Here are 12 FREE courses on AI:
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How to become 1% better at Product Management everyday:
1. Meet and network with other PMs
2. Install new apps and understand UX/metrics
3. Spend 1 hour everyday on industry reports
4. Learn things unrelated to PM, widen your horizons
5. Spend 10 hours per month on up-skilling
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All Product Strategy threads in one place.
(including takes from
@gibsonbiddle
,
@lissijean
and
@romanpichler
)
For those who missed, this is work of one month of researching how product's best minds think about Product Strategy
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