This presentation tries to draw a preliminary picture on the life of product managers. Especially the ones who did not google it yet!
In the second phase of this presentation, We try to answer 3 questions:
What brings in happiness and motivates you?
What is your personality like?
What are your skills and talents?
In the end, There is a simple question! Can I be a product manager? generally, it is a yes! You just need to find a right fit to the company industry, people you work with and maturity of the business and make sure you it is aligned based on your personality and skillset!
.Talk about different stage companiesدر تشکیل هر کسب و کار کوچک، چه استارتاپ چه شرکت های دیگری مراحل تکاملی مختلفی وجود دارد.این مراحل تکاملی معمولا با تعداد نیرو انسانی و درآمد این کسب و کارها رابطه دارند.
در اکثر شرکت های استارت آپ یا تکنولوژی محور در مرحله ای به شکل گیری و بهبود محصول های که از طریق آنها این واحد تجاری ارزش افزوده برای مشتریان خود به وجود می آورد، پرداخته میشود.
محضول؟؟؟براساس تجربه های مختلف کاربر : مثلا تجربه خرید
براساس feature های و بعد فنی
یا ملغمه ای از این دو
Soal beporsam ke nemoone began
No one really knows,
Story Label work US,
Perception that product manager will solve it all!
Relation between product managers not knowing what they should do and their Job DescriptionRelation between different stages of an startup, different industries and and even the offering itself : example VPN services vs Amazon vs Spotify vs Car hailing\
Story of me doing doing customer service or doing deliveries. You need to do bunch of stuff, it is not PM jobs, its startup environment.
Just remember always that you are expendable!You cannot do your job without people around you.
Facilitation is the key. Remember Cross-functional teams
Keep it moving in the right direction, hitting a roadblock in inevitable, learn how to deal with it.
You can inspire change and be a directive force when needed
On the side note, Keep it fun! There is more bad karma around than you think!
CORE Connective Model : Communication, Execution, Organization, Research
Focus on skillsets that are required to facilitate and create alignment based on day-to-day job of a PM.
Skillsets necessary to create INFLUENCE.anything that helps get the product out the door is valuable and worth pursuing
Analytical mind is really good because you can find the Tea!
Hacker and tanbal is good because you find an easier way :D
Continuous improvement , you, yourself, your product and ….
You are here to work with your team not your team for you
You are the CEO of product and the Janitor too!
علایق یک «منبع کلیدی» هستند که حقیقتاً شما را تبدیل به خود واقعیتان میکنند.
تمام فرازهای زندگی خود را در نظر بگیرید، چیزهایی که در شما اشتیاق ایجاد میکنند. هر رویدادی در چه محیطی (صنعت/ بخش/ زمینه/ حوزهی علاقهمندی) اتفاق افتاده است؟ شامل چه فعالیتها یا اقداماتی بوده است؟ زمینههای علاقهمندی چه ویژگیهای مشترک دیگری دارند؟ چطور زمینههای علاقهمندی پیشنهاد شده با نتایچ چرخ زندگی شما تطبیق مییابد؟
ایدهی دیگری که باید به آن توجه کنید: تغییرات شغلی را شناسایی کنید؛ جایی که تصمیمات اصلی را در مورد تغییر گرفتهاید. آیا اینها بیشتر فرازهای شغلی را رقم زدهاند یا فرودها؟
منبع کنترل درونی برای رضایت شغلی حیاتی است. وقتی خودمان را خوب بشناسیم کمتر احتمال دارد که اقدامات ما در پاسخ به انتظارات دیگران باشد، یا شغل خودمان را رها کنیم تا بدون اختیار ما تا بدون اختیار ما خود به خود پیش برود.
فراز و فرودهای زندگی خود را رسم کنید
رویدادهایی را که نشاندهندهی بالا و پایینهای زندگیتان هستند به یاد بیاورید و آنها را روی خط زمان رسم کنید. خط زمان را تا جایی که به یاد میآورید ادامه دهید. محور عمودی نمایشگر لذت و یا هیجان است. محور افقی نمایشگر زمان است.
فرازها و فرودها:
رویدادهای ویژه و مهم در زندگی شما: خوب یا بد، شخصی یا حرفهای، چه به کار مرتبط هستند چه به زندگی اجتماعی، عشق، سرگرمی، موضوعات آکادمیک، مشغولیتهای معنوی یا حوزههای دیگر
برهههای زمانی هستند که آنها را به وضوح به یاد میآورید و با احساسات قوی همراه هستند.
تغییرات اصلی شغلی، هم مثبت و هم منفی
فعل های مشترک را پیدا کنید و یکجا بنویسید.
اینها منابع انرژی شما هستند.
شخصیت ها لایه لایه اند.
نتایج رو چند نفر اعلام کنند.
4 personas that are common for PM’s .
It does not mean that you are cannot be a PM.
was recently talking to a co-founder of a leading social network and he asked what in my view are the qualities of a great product manager. I could think of three right away but I believe there are more that are equally important.
If you are responsible for hiring a product manager or work with a product manager, here are 9 qualities that make a great product manager:
Strategic Thinker
A product manager is a mini-CEO of sorts. He needs to understand the current product strategy and how it aligns with the overall company strategy. He needs to know the product vision, how it will generate customer value and what is the differentiating advantage over its competitors. Once a product manager gets this and is able to clearly articulate that strategy, you would be surprised how the rest of the team will rally behind it, in order to build a winning product. For the product to be a long term success, he needs to envision how the product, industry and competition is going to evolve and develop a long term roadmap.
Passion for products
Product managers should love products. They should be able to recognize and respect great products. They should be able to tell what makes one product loved by customer and the other not. They should be able to identify what needs have not been met and how they can be improved. If the product manager is truly passionate about the product, it rubs of the entire team and leads to the development of great products.
Empathizes with the customer
It is ideal if you can hire a product manager that has experience in your industry but in reality you won't. It is very rare to find somebody that is good and has relevant industry experience. At the minimum, the product manager you hire should have deep empathy for your target customer.
If it is a consumer product, you have to be extra careful that the product manager is not projecting their needs and ignoring the larger target customer base. Ask them as to who the target market is and how is different from them. The candidate should respect and empathize with the customer.
Interviews customers
A product manager with deep customer empathy recognizes the importance of talking to customers. A good product manager will look for every opportunity to learn from the target customer. Even it were a chance meeting, they are looking to gather insights into their needs and how they solve them today. If you are working on a consumer product, the opportunity to meet a target customer is endless - on a bus, at a party, at the playground and so on. So a good product manager is always prepared.
In order to be an effective interviewer, the product manager should be objective, can put people at ease and get them to answer the tough questions. They are more interested in learning than selling.
Aspires to build great user experiences
In this hyper competitive environment, an amazing user experience is a necessity and product managers should thrive to create it. For which, the product manager needs to know how to identify customer needs, translate them into task journeys, design interaction diagrams, test and iterate on those diagrams and engage visual designers to build emotive visual designs.
In most teams, you do not have the luxury of having an interaction designer and a visual designer. Instead, the product manager plays the role of an interaction designer and have somebody else do the visual design. Even if an interaction designer is present, a product manager should be able to demand the very best. They should be able to tell when a design is good and when a design is bad. They should be able to tell if the design addresses the need in the most efficient way and if all the interactions fit together in an intuitive, self-describing and logical manner.
Keeps Score
In addition to knowing what the game is, a product manager should be able to keep score. Keeping score means identifying the right metrics and knowing when you have won. Winning means identifying the current baseline for the metrics and the goal the team would be shooting for in the next release. Once a product manager is able to accomplish this, everybody in the team will have clear understanding as to how the game is won. The team is rightfully aligned, motivated, inspired and innovative.
Ability to Prioritize
One of the key attributes of a product manager is to be able to prioritize the backlog. Once the product manager and the entire company/team knows what game is been played and how the score is kept and won, prioritizing becomes an easy task. The product manager needs to map the product strategy down to the individual features, and prioritize them in the right order across phases so as to maximize the winnings. If a product manager is able to do this well, all stakeholders within the company will buy into the prioritized backlog even though their pet features have not made the cut.
Collaborative leader
Building a product is a collaborative process and its take a product manager with collaborative nature to pull it off. Even though a product manager is the leader of the product, most of the people development team does not report to him. Moreover, product requirements come from various functional groups and customers and they all are considered important by those contributing them. In such an environment, a product manager cannot be dictatorial. He needs to be able to inspire others to follow him. He needs to be able to negotiate while prioritizing the backlog and appease all stakeholders. He needs to clearly communicate why a particular feature was chosen over an other one for the current release. At the same time he needs to be confident, assertive and at times lay down the law since the buck stops with the product leader.
Execution
Product managers need to be biased for action. They need to get things done. In order for a product to be shipped there are hundreds of things to get done and a product manager should be able to get down and dirty to get them done. He needs to QA, write marketing copies, edit HTMLs, mock up wireframes, and even do PR. A product manager needs to do anything needed to make the product a success.
At the end of the day, product manager need to make things happen. They should have the ability and qualities to rally the troops, sell them on the vision and march them to victory.
Are their qualities I have missed? Would love to hear your thoughts.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140410232440-137353-9-qualities-of-a-great-product-manager/