Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices To Become a Great Product Manager (Cracking the Interview & Career)

By customer type or use case: List which requirements you need for each, then look for a list that's short and mostly a subset of things you need for your higher priority use case.

Always start with the goals: Taking a few minutes at the beginning of each piece of work to get everyone on the same page about why you're doing it and what you're hoping to accomplish can make a huge difference in your success. Frequently revisiting the goals not only keeps people on track, it helps morale as well!

As you talk to people, focus on the insights—both expected and unexpected—so you can form a mental model of your users. Try to predict what people will say, and keep track of where your intuition is right and wrong.

A PM shouldn't dictate a solution to the designer; rather, they should share their thoughts in a way that's respectful of the designer's role.

Common tasks during the develop phase include: Writing stories or tickets for engineering Determining which metrics to instrument and track Triaging bugs Checking in with teammates regularly to unblock them Trying out each feature as it's being built and giving feedback Keeping stakeholders and approvers up-to-date

Show the Success Metrics: Include graphs that show the most important success metrics for your product.

Development is where you turn the ideas into working code.

Common tasks during the design phase include: Writing a spec Deciding what functionality is in or out Negotiating dependencies with other teams Whiteboarding with designers and engineers Giving feedback on design Running usability studies

The culmination of the define phase is often some kind of review where the team gets the go-ahead for the work and people are assigned to the team.

A PM is the person on a product team who is responsible for choosing the right problems to go after, defining what success looks like, and guiding their team to achieve successful outcomes.