Current student looking for advice. I interned at RBC Wealth Management last summer and currently have 2 offers for summer 2023 that require a decision next week: 1 for BASF (chemical manufacturing) and 1 for Peraton (defense technology); I am also waiting to hear back from SMBC (S&T), Point72, Lord Abbett, Boeing, and Shell. I hope to break into IB next summer, and I’m interested in the Natural Resources, Industrials, and Real Estate industry groups. Any advice on what to do? Thanks!
I think there's a lot of PM content out there talking about PMing skills but very few that walk you through examples of how those skills were applied. In addition, if it could be shown how a "bad" PM is applying those skills versus how a "good" PM is applying those very same skills to lead to better outcomes, IMO, that content would differentiate itself from all the other content out there. Cite a real world example and compare and contrast the actions of a "bad" PM versus a "good" PM.
This! As a mainly self-taught Product Manager, this kind of content would be amazing!
Great idea and there is a lot of need for such. It also depends on what you are interested in and your background is. I would like to see:
- Career journey to product roles - what does one need to prepare for to be in Product Management
- How does one grow in product management - PM to CPO?
- What are the type of roles available - at a high level to prepare for?
- How do you influence those people who don’t report to you?
May be more but those are my starting points
There is a writing community called Ship 30 for 30 where you write x30, 300-word essays in 30 days and publish every day to Twitter. It’s an exercise in getting many ideas out and seeing which ones people respond to. I’m doing it now, currently in day 11 and it has been an amazing learning experience so far. I’m also a PM and had the exact same question as you. Now I’ve published a bunch of essays, with more ease and courage than before and connected with other PMs.
Really going through the process instead of glossing over things like most people do would be huge. I found it pretty much impossible to get detailed information when I really needed it.
I'd like to know about ideating and the discovery phase, especially on a product with a lot of unknowns. How do you structure all the information you gather and turn it into a coherent plan.
I would love more around going from PM to a leadership role (group pm/head/director). Cracking the PM Interview didn't cover this next step.
+1 to examples or frameworks. Particularly around artifacts. I'm always looking for new ways to present to stakeholders, for example.
Will think about this. Thank you for the feedback.
I’m fairly new to the PM world and would love a resource like this. Such a good idea.
Assuming you're the same person I'm seeing in other threads, I've seen your responses in other threads and am always so impressed with how articulate you are, and the way you provide advice. Maybe it's worth noting down some of the threads on here, particularly ones with more back and forth and using those as the basis of the blog posts? If one person's posting on here with a question, the likelihood is that there are many others wondering the same thing but afraid to ask!
Agree on using medium. Twitter etc. Would not be suitable for sharing this kind of content.
I really like this idea! Would you be making a blog?
Wow that sounds awesome! Be sure to share it in here once you’ve put it all together.
Would definitely be interested
If we split product management into areas using Roman Pichler’s wheel https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/romans-product-management-framework/
I believe there is vast literature about PM frameworks, research, roadmaps, vision.
Limited about market research and business model and financials from a Product perspective.
And almost non existent about the operational side eg. Costs of a product team, balancing investments, calculating run ways etc…
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Very good point. I'll think about these topics. Hard to speak about certain aspects of this, but I have some ideas already. Thanks for the feedback.
Would definitely love this! I'm a new-ish, self-taught PM so my only resources have been books + Product School's slack channels and & sessions.
One I’d like to see is being a PM at a non-product-oriented org. All the advice I’ve seen is just “find a better job at an org that values product” but I don’t see how that helps other orgs get better
It's about education. I actually run into this more on the data side. Most organizations can be eventually taught product, it's a whole new thing to understand how to build for scale. I can def write something on this.
Personally I’d love more PM content.
Taking a product or company international
What makes a good product dept vs a bad one
When you think of your best colleagues or subordinates what stands out?
Out of curiosity do a lot of you use Twitter? I'd think about using it or LinkedIn to publish the content. Yes eventually a standalone website, but day 1 not.
Keep to Twitter.
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Where would be the best format to do an "office hour". A place where I can weekly just post a link or activate something and just let people join for an ad-hoc discussion. I could even require a few people submit a few topics in advance to address and even discuss it back and forth during it? Just throwing out some ideas.
A slack community?
Please do this! I think it will be valuable to everyone in this bowl and elsewhere
Would love to hear how to build a true product-driven culture in large, corporate environments