How to Become a Product Manager: From Ideation to Launch

Everything you need to know to ace your Product Management interviews and become a great Product Manager

Created by: Alex Mitchell
Director of Product @ Kin | 5x Product Leader/Founder

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the 15 Stages of the Product Development Lifecycle And How it Applies to All Products
• How to Prepare for and Ace Product Management Interviews
• How to Stand Out from Other Product Management Candidates
• Learning How to Tell Your "Build" Story in Interviews
• How to Build an Effective and Impressive Side Hustle
• Identifying and Understanding the Problem to Be Solved
• Methods to Ideate to Solve Key Problems
• Understand how to "Sell" Your Solution to Stakeholders
• Build the Right Product Team the First Time
• How to Decide Whether to Build or Buy
• >50 Methods to Gather Feedback in the Build Cycle
• How to Define and Achieve Your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and Understanding MRP and MLP's
• Defining and Tracking The Right Data and Metrics
• The Right Steps to Transform Your MVP into a Mature Product
• Promoting Your Product Release Successfully
• Defining Goals and Sharing Success
• Creating a Product Roadmap
• How to Build Your Product Manager Brand
• Learning How to Communicate Well With Technical and Non-Technical Stakeholders
• Understand the Definitions of All Major Agile Terms and How They Are Applied at Different Technology Companies
• How You Can Incorporate A/B Testing Into Your Product Lifecycle
• Learn About the 5 Different Types of Product Managers and Identify Which Type You Are
• Apply the AARRR Funnel Approach To Your Product
• Write Effective User Stories That Your Engineers will Love
• How to Effectively Break Down and Analyze a Competitors Product

Requirements

• No pre-requisites, although some understanding of basic business concepts can be helpful

Target audience

• Aspiring Product Managers
• New Product Managers
• Product Managers Looking to Level-Up
• Product Managers