12. Meet Sumeet
Master’s Information , Bachelor’s Computers
Microsoft (MSN, System Center, Outlook.com)
Yahoo (Yahoo Mail - Various Areas)
Adobe (Cloud Platform - Sharing)
HPE (Aruba Edge / Cloud Platform)
14. Tell us about yourselves?
What motivates you to be here today?
Where do you come from? [Countries, Companies]
What kind of experience? [Disciplines, Years]
What is the one thing you want to walk away from today’s talk?
15. Here is what we will cover ...
Product Manager Traits
Product Management Cycle
Different Kinds of Products
A Product Demo
FAQs
Question & Answers
16. Product Management One Liners (credit to mentors)
1. Ship the right product at the right time for the right customer in the right way
2. Product management lies in the intersection of humanities and sciences
3. Product management is like the hub in bicycle wheel that connects various spokes
4. Product managers manage products for people, they don’t manage people
5. Virtual CEO = influence w/o authority, speed and quality of decision making
6. Product managers start with the customer and work their way backwards
7. Product managers are cultural shepherds of their teams
43. FAQs
B2B vs B2C
Eng Driven vs Product Driven
Technical vs Empathy
Missionaries vs Mercenaries
Good Team vs Bad Team
Good Management vs Bad Management
Product Management Tracks (Engg -> Product, Design -> Product)
Career Levels & Titles
Silicon Valley Product Culture
44. Resources
Silicon Valley Product Group
https://svpg.com/
Product is Hard (Marty Cagan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCYFmrvPI8Q
Lean Product Meetup (Dan Olsen)
https://www.meetup.com/lean-product/
Carnegie Mellon - MS in Product Management Degree
https://ms-product-management.cmu.edu/
45. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management, Coding, Data Analytics, Digital
Marketing, UX Design and Product Leadership courses in San
Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Santa Monica, Los Angeles,
Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Denver, Orange County,
Seattle, Bellevue, Washington DC, Toronto, London and Online
Notas del editor
Microsoft Program Management = Technical Product Management
Tell us about yourselves:
What motivated you to be here today?
What are your backgrounds? Countries? Companies? Disciplines? Experience?
If you can’t explain it simply enough, you don’t understand it well enough.
These are personality traits, They are personal, If you don’t have them suggest doing activities that will help you build them.
Creativity / Computing
First computer programmer
Ada computer language named after her
First set of algorithms
Mathematician
Pioneer of computing
Courage / Transportation
Boldly go where not many have been
Multiple solo aviator
Women’s rights supporter
Teacher, Instructor
Against all odds
Curiosity / Information
NSF founder
Fred Turman (Stanford) Advisor
As we may think author
Memex visionary (Google today)
Engineer at heart
Communication / Communication
All about presentation
Makeup, cosmetics
Design, style, fashion, elegance, appearance
Perception, impression, statement
Also about the people communicating
Customer / Retail
Store for all kinds of products
Democratize lifestyle
Extremely complex logistical problem
Customer can fire everyone in the company by spending the money elsewhere
Vision
Simple
Clear
Succint
Specific
Long term (think 3-5 years out)
Unique & differentiator
! = Mission, Motto, or such
Roadmap
iPod, iPhone, iPad, iCloud
Good, better, best
Market presence, competitive, leading
Market phase early adopter, mass market, laggards
Design (Farm to Fork)
Use cases
Functionality
Prioritization
Workflows
Look & feel
Usability
Development
Architecture
Technical
Triaging
Feedback
EQ
Marketing & Sales
Positioning
Pricing
Promotion
Placement
Go to market
Events, blogs, write-ups, collateral, videos
Operations
Cloud (Service) Operations
Business Operations
Support Operations
Customer Feedback
Qualitative
Quantitative
Real-time (A/B tests, experiments)
Site Visits
Early Adopter/Advisory Boards
Iteration
(Content) The Book
Stones
Tablets
Parchments
Printing Press
Book
eBook
Art
Discrete
Emotional Moving / Memorable
Multiple Senses (sight, sound, intellect)
Artist driven
Media dependent
Collection Products
Nested products
One main big product
Lots of small products
All work together in harmony
Social / group product - since multiple stakeholders (children, parents, visitors, pets)
Home -> Family
Maslow’s hierarchy bottom needs
Collection of products & systems that work together
Bathroom, toilet, toothbrush, appliances
House + everything inside the house
House is purchased, home is a built
Everyone and all interactions with it.
(Transaction) System of Network Transactions
Usually user does something that results in some transaction across entities
Alternative is risky (carrying / keeping cash)
Complex network from user to merchant to banks
Highly secure and critical
Global across nations
Monitors, maintains and tracks usage
Similar to email, stock trade and any transactional system
(Flow) Natural Flow Systems
Continuous Motion
Routing of Traffic
Bottlenecks & Excess Capacity
Stagnation
Pick up / drop off , Start / end
Waterfalls (magnificent)
Internet, Routers