Software Product Leadership – Product Management 101

Take your first step towards a higher paying Product Management job!

Created by: Dean Slawson
Former Director of PM at Microsoft Research

Created by: Ramit Arora
Product Manager at Microsoft

What Will I Learn?

• Role of a Software Product Manager
• Writing Functional Specs (Spec templates included)
• Using User Stories to make informed decisions
• Intro to UX research methodologies
• Pro tips and tricks for PM Interviews
• Framework for Job Search and Career Moves (Worksheet included)
• Performing Market Research
• Socializing your product and feature ideas
• Career advice
• User Experience Design for PMs
• Pitching your product (Pitch templates included)
• Best practices for shipping products - collaborating with engineers, designers and so on
• Intro to Common Product Metrics - MAU(Monthly Active Users), DAU(Daily Active Users) and NPS(Net Promoter Score)
• What blogs do Product Managers read to keep up with technology trends
• Framework to navigate to more advanced Product Management and Software Leadership topics
• Intro to A/B testing
• Gesture, App Performance and invisible elements of User Experience
• Other Business, Experience, Technology and Leadership skills to make you a more effective PM

Requirements

• No prerequisites. Basic software development and business understanding would be helpful.

Target audience

• Professionals who aim to transition to product managers at IT/Software companies.
• Students looking to start out in PM role post college
• People looking to understand what the Product Management role is all about