Tune in to listen to Lauren Lee, Founder & CEO ProductLivity, share the stories behind some of her best product wisdom & career tips for new and aspiring product managers.
Lauren's product wisdom & career tips discussed in this episode
Set aside 10 minutes a week to journal what are the top three things that I really did that added value, or what did I learn
Be mindful of your comms strategy when you change something in your product, your end users are people too and if they are on the losing end of a change, you may need to help them through it
Product decagon framework to help you grow your product career
Product discovery and execution - insights, roadmap, to execution
People management - beyond IC, peoples, managers
Leadership - any PM should be displaying some amount of
Communication - tons of meetings, devs, designers, stockholders, customers - articulate what you are trying to do
Strategic thinking - more important as you get more senior in your product career, what is the right set of things to put on the roadmap in the next 12 months
User empathy - understanding users, how to best solve problems, uniquely do that that the alternatives are not
Analysis - understand the data, quant / qual - why success criteria
Technical fundamentals - speak enough engineering to have trade off conversations
Design fundamentals - good conversations with your designers
New technologies - always changing
Don't wait for perfect, share it, workshop it along the way, get feedback
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Don't Wait for Perfect with Lauren Lee