Guide to Excellent Execution as a Product Manager
As a product manager, have you ever wished that you could dive into the minds of other product managers to learn from their firsthand experiences? Look no further!
PMHQ Co-Founder Clement Kao has compiled this guide to provide you with exactly that - tips, tricks, and best practices that come from his firsthand experience to further enhance your execution as a product manager.
In this 170+ page guide, we'll walk you through twenty problem areas for product managers, ranging from sprint rituals to crisis management to integrations. For each problem area, we dive into frameworks, real examples, and questions to help guide your growth.
If you're an ambitious product manager looking to enhance your execution, this book is what you've been waiting for!
What's Inside
In this book, you'll learn:
- How to balance your work and your life
- How to deal with context switching
- How to maintain a healthy backlog
- How to keep your sprints humming along
- How to conduct effective retrospectives
- How to write powerful test cases
- How to effectively manage your workload
- How to run effective meetings
- How to manage a crisis
- How to craft internal release notes
- How to select a new technology
- How to implement a new technology
- How to ship functionality across multiple platforms
- How to sunset a feature
- How to take advantage of different product distribution models
- How to leverage process as a B2B product management
- How to ship an effective B2B product
- How to decide whether to create customization or configuration for your B2B product
- How to succeed with remote development teams
- How to ship integrations with third parties
Each chapter is designed to provide you with immediately actionable insight. At the end of each chapter, you'll have the opportunity to reflect on what you learned and on how to apply it to your product management journey.
Who is this Guide For?
This book was written for early-career product managers to gain exposure to the hard lessons that Clement has learned through his work and through conversations with hundreds of product managers from around the world.
What are the Requirements?
We wrote this book as a look-over-my-shoulder guide to excellent execution as a product manager. Therefore, you don't need to have any requirements or technical knowledge, though you'll benefit more if you've already been a product manager for at least a couple of months.