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Note from Linda
Quick question
Career Strategy, Planning, Execution
How to use the Toolkit
Two challenges
Negotiate like a baller
Proven tactics to negotiate with confidence
Myths that hold you back
Upfront negotiation: start early + example scenarios
Ongoing negotiation: what to expect + example scenarios
How I got big raises in 3 years
Further reading
Thrive in your first 30/60/90 days
Learn the right context and establish credibility without ruffling feathers
Career cold-start
Step-by-step guide: make the most of your first 90 days
Examples: starter projects & business equations
Manage your manager
Manage expectations, and grow your trust battery with your manager
Making your manager’s life easy
Video: walk through examples of building trust
Navigate hard conversations with example scenarios
Further reading
Advance your career
Proactively manage your career and advance faster
Treat your career like a product
How to advance your career
Template & example: goals and career roadmap
Should you leave your company?
Should you leave PM?
Further reading
Lead planning
Instill clarity and preserve sanity during planning
Why planning is a golden opportunity
How to stay organized and sane
Template & example: track progress, increase transparency
Run productive brainstorms
Do the right pre-work to make the most of brainstorm time
Why brainstorms get a bad rep
Video: how might we questions, jobs to be done, strategy and more
Template & example: brainstorm materials, email
Set-up, tools, voting
Compose a coherent roadmap
Prepare the roadmap and identify major themes
Organizing ideas into a roadmap
Video: how to turn brainstorm ideas into a roadmap
Template & example: unprioritized roadmap
Prioritize like a portfolio
Identify and score winning opportunities
Creating compelling big picture
How to pick opportunities: types, allocation, portfolio
Video: how to turn a laundry list into opportunities
Video: how to score opportunities
Step-by-step guide: prioritizing roadmap, collaboration
Examples: prioritized roadmap
Set focused OKRs
Create clean, focused OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
The truth about OKRs
Video: how to structure your OKRs
Video: how OKRs change based on company lifestage
How to structure OKRs and drive accountability
Template & example: sharing OKRs
How seriously should you take OKRs?
Metric precautions, bad OKRs, getting to real numbers
Further reading
Track and report on OKR progress
Learn a system for tracking, reporting on progress, and staying ahead of the game
Know where the ship is headed
Video: how to track and present OKR progress
Template & example: tracking system
Template & example: presenting OKR progress
Project manage with pizzaz
Learn a system to easily keep tabs on every project and drive accountability
Jobs to be done for tracking projects
Template & example: track projects, manage delays
Interview customers with purpose
Ask customers the right questions to de-risk your product at every stage
Types of customer interviews
Cautionary tales
Video: how to find the right questions for your customer interview
Templates & examples for each type of customer interview
Video: how to find customers and incentivize them to talk to you
Source & incentivize customers for new and existing products
Video: when to use interviews vs. surveys; example of survey questions
Interviews vs. surveys: when to use which
Further reading
Case study: how to turn an idea into a launched product
Applying everything we’ve learned about customer outreach and interview
Putting it all together
Example: clarification of problem, solution, how it will work
Example: customer outreach
Example customer interviews: questions, notes, takeaways
Competitive research / benchmarking
Scope features to 10X your impact
Become a positive force multiplier through impeccable execution
Becoming a force multiplier
Kick off: what to focus on, email and PRD
Hand off: precaution, email and PRD
Examples: new vs. existing features
To ship or not to ship?
Further reading
Design winning AB tests
Improve your odds of designing a winning experiment
Why you should do experiments
Mini-stats lessons
How to find promising experiments
Visual examples of winning experiments
Template & examples: new vs. existing features
Preventable failures, when to not experiment
Further reading
Create insightful dashboards
Define the job of your dashboards, and design them to maximize insight
Types of dashboards
Visual examples of bad dashboards
Templates & illustrations by dashboard type
Further reading
Run effective meetings
Run meetings that keep your team accountable and nimble
Treat meetings like a product
Staying nimble through weekly sprints
Template & example: sprint meeting
Stand-up: for vs. against & how to run a tight ship
Working sessions: defuse disasters & create a game plan
Tame the meeting monster and maintain reasonable working hours
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PM Tech Stack – tools and links
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