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Exploring the Essential Features of “Linda – Essentials Kit – Product Toolkit”
📍 Start here
- Note from Linda
- Quick question❓
- ♟️ Career Strategy, 🗓️ Planning, ⚒️ Execution
- How to use the Toolkit
- Two challenges 🏋️
♟️ Negotiate like a baller
Proven tactics to negotiate with confidence
- Myths that hold you back
- Upfront negotiation: start early + example scenarios
- Ongoing negotiation: what to expect + example scenarios
- How I got big raises in 3 years
- Further reading
♟️ Thrive in your first 30/60/90 days
Learn the right context and establish credibility without ruffling feathers
- Career cold-start
- Step-by-step guide: make the most of your first 90 days
- Examples: starter projects & business equations
♟️ Manage your manager
Manage expectations, and grow your trust battery with your manager
- Making your manager’s life easy
- Video: walk through examples of building trust
- Navigate hard conversations with example scenarios
- Further reading
♟️ Advance your career
Proactively manage your career and advance faster
- Treat your career like a product
- How to advance your career
- Template & example: goals and career roadmap
- Should you leave your company?
- Should you leave PM?
- Further reading
🗓️ Lead planning
Instill clarity and preserve sanity during planning
- Why planning is a golden opportunity
- How to stay organized and sane
- Template & example: track progress, increase transparency
🗓️ Run productive brainstorms
Do the right pre-work to make the most of brainstorm time
- Why brainstorms get a bad rep
- Video: how might we questions, jobs to be done, strategy and more
- Template & example: brainstorm materials, email
- Set-up, tools, voting
🗓️ Compose a coherent roadmap
Prepare the roadmap and identify major themes
- Organizing ideas into a roadmap
- Video: how to turn brainstorm ideas into a roadmap
- Template & example: unprioritized roadmap
🗓️ Prioritize like a portfolio
Identify and score winning opportunities
- Creating compelling big picture
- How to pick opportunities: types, allocation, portfolio
- Video: how to turn a laundry list into opportunities
- Video: how to score opportunities
- Step-by-step guide: prioritizing roadmap, collaboration
- Examples: prioritized roadmap
🗓️ Set focused OKRs
Create clean, focused OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
- The truth about OKRs
- Video: how to structure your OKRs
- Video: how OKRs change based on company lifestage
- How to structure OKRs and drive accountability
- Template & example: sharing OKRs
- How seriously should you take OKRs?
- Metric precautions, bad OKRs, getting to real numbers
- Further reading
🗓️ Track and report on OKR progress
Learn a system for tracking, reporting on progress, and staying ahead of the game
- Know where the ship is headed
- Video: how to track and present OKR progress
- Template & example: tracking system
- Template & example: presenting OKR progress
⚒️ Project manage with pizzaz
Learn a system to easily keep tabs on every project and drive accountability
- Jobs to be done for tracking projects
- Template & example: track projects, manage delays
⚒️ Interview customers with purpose
Ask customers the right questions to de-risk your product at every stage
- Types of customer interviews
- Cautionary tales
- Video: how to find the right questions for your customer interview
- Templates & examples for each type of customer interview
- Video: how to find customers and incentivize them to talk to you
- Source & incentivize customers for new and existing products
- Video: when to use interviews vs. surveys; example of survey questions
- Interviews vs. surveys: when to use which
- Further reading
⚒️ Case study: how to turn an idea into a launched product
Applying everything we’ve learned about customer outreach and interview
- Putting it all together
- Example: clarification of problem, solution, how it will work
- Example: customer outreach
- Example customer interviews: questions, notes, takeaways
- Competitive research / benchmarking
⚒️ Scope features to 10X your impact
Become a positive force multiplier through impeccable execution
- Becoming a force multiplier
- Kick off: what to focus on, email and PRD
- Hand off: precaution, email and PRD
- Examples: new vs. existing features
- To ship or not to ship?
- Further reading
⚒️ Design winning AB tests
Improve your odds of designing a winning experiment
- Why you should do experiments
- Mini-stats lessons
- How to find promising experiments
- Visual examples of winning experiments
- Template & examples: new vs. existing features
- Preventable failures, when to not experiment
- Further reading
⚒️ Create insightful dashboards
Define the job of your dashboards, and design them to maximize insight
- Types of dashboards
- Visual examples of bad dashboards
- Templates & illustrations by dashboard type
- Further reading
⚒️ Run effective meetings
Run meetings that keep your team accountable and nimble
- Treat meetings like a product
- Staying nimble through weekly sprints
- Template & example: sprint meeting
- Stand-up: for vs. against & how to run a tight ship
- Working sessions: defuse disasters & create a game plan
- Tame the meeting monster and maintain reasonable working hours
🎉 End here
Congrats on completing Product Toolkit!
- PM Tech Stack – tools and links
- One last thing
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