Cracking the PM Career by Jackie Bavaro
Product management is a big role, and this a big book.From the authors of the best-selling Cracking the PM Interview comes the comprehensive guide to the skills, frameworks, and practices to become a great product manager. It will help you level-up your skills and career from your first product management role through product leadership.You'll learn how to:* Design high-quality products that delight users and solve people's needs.* Run and deliver your projects quickly, smoothly, and effectively.* Create product visions and strategies to set direction and optimize for long-term impact.* Lead people and influence without authority.* Manage people, develop great PMs, build great teams, and create great product organizations.* Manage your career so you can translate your efforts into the recognition you deserve.This book will teach you the reliable frameworks and best practices that improve your chances of shipping a successful product. The frameworks won't transform you into a great product manager overnight or guarantee that your products never fail, but they'll help you avoid the most common problems and give you the structure to start experimenting, reflecting, and improving.Topics include:* Getting Started: the product life cycle; the first 90 days* Product Skills: user research; A/B tests; problem solving frameworks; systems thinking; product discovery; design sprints; ethical product design; technical terms and concepts; product documentation (specs and PRDs)* Execution Skills: agile project management; minimum viable products (MVPs); incremental development; product launches; time management; overcoming obstacles* Strategic Skills: product vision; strategy; roadmaps; goals and OKRs* Leadership Skills: growth mindset; ownership mentality; influencing without authority; stakeholder management; collaboration; communication; inspiring a team; mentoring; working with designers, engineers, and executives* People Management Skills: becoming a people manager; being a member of the leadership team; reviewing work; holding people accountable; coaching and development; recruiting and interviewing; product processes; organizational structures* Careers: career ladders; career goals; partnering with your manager; picking the right team; negotiations; networking; handling bad situations; career options beyond PMGAYLE LAAKMANN MCDOWELL spent three years at Google Engineering, where she was a member of the recruiting committee and interviewed more than 120 individuals. She interned at Microsoft and Apple, and she interviewed with ten tech companies and received offers from all of them. She has an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and is the creator and CEO of CareerCup.com, a website dedicated to tech careers. Cracking the Coding Interview is her first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780984782895 |
| ISBN 10 | 0984782893 |
| Title | Cracking the PM Career |
| Author | Jackie Bavaro |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | CareerCup |
| Year published | 2021-01-26 |
| Number of pages | 552 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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