You’ve got a new product or idea. Now, it’s time to do a competitive analysis. This type of exercise will show you where and how your product fits into the marketplace. Even doing a simple competitive analysis will put you ahead of most small businesses and start-ups, and it will help you define your competitive strategy for your business.
This document discusses how to effectively onboard and add value as a new product manager. It recommends that new PMs learn the domain by understanding users, the product landscape, and the existing product. PMs should build relationships across functions like engineering, UX, and marketing. When starting, PMs should get scrappy by prioritizing small, meaningful problems and developing useful skills like querying data and creating low-fidelity mocks. The overall message is that new PMs should focus on learning, relationships, and taking initiative to solve problems in order to successfully onboard and contribute on their new team.
Main Takeaways: - Why it's important to empathizing and understanding your own teammates / partners, and not just your end users - Unlocking the long-term value of bringing people up the mountain with you on your product-building journey - How developing your emotional IQ will take you from being a good PM to being a great PM
Main Takeaways: - How to manage the craziness of being cooped up at home at this particular time of the - pandemic - How to establish yourself as a Product Leader while working remotely - The hazards of remote work, especially remote leadership, and how to get around them - How to set up an effective system for you and your team to build productively while still having a life!