List of topics for Product Management Community of Practice

[Olivia-Chiong]

Overview

Create a list of topics for the weekly product management community of practice meetings. This is a work in progress. We are currently curating and updating the relevant issues for each topic and will include any resources when it is available.

Action Items

Wishlist of topics

• [ ] Job Search
  • [x] Mentoring sessions
  • [ ] Interview resources
  • [x] Typical company life cycle (for job search)
  • [x] How to add Hack for LA experience to your resume
  • [x] How to coach members of your team on their resumes
  • [x] How to do Reference calls for your team members
  • [x] How to support volunteers who need proof of volunteering
  • [ ] Different types of product manager roles across industries and functionally
• [ ] Different types of product management software - MSProjects, Monday.com, JIRA, MS Dynamics, Smartsheets, Trello, Aha!, Product Plan, Asana
• [x] Analytics: FullStory, Heap, Mixpanel, Tableau, Snowflake, AppCues, Pendo - Alex
• [x] FREE Software that can be used
• [x] How do you recruit users for civic tech project test users, customer interviews, user testing?
• [x] How do you conduct product discovery or customer development - Ravi
• [x] HIPAA - how to comply, privacy policies
• [x] How to understand product analysis, success metrics etc, how to define areas for improvement - Erika
• [x] Basics of product management
• [x] product management life cycle
• [x] LEAN product development
• [x] Different types of Agile - Iffath
• [x] Prioritization frameworks - Khushboo
• [ ] Scrum certifications
• [x] Pricing strategies? B2B, B2C - Grants/Sponsorships/Funding
• [x] How to make municipal connections, government connections
• [x] Technical coaching to communicate with devs/designers
• [x] Roles/Responsibilities of a product pod (Product, design, devs)
• [x] Personas, User Stories and journeys - Niven
• [x] OKRs
• [x] Soft skills - team management, stakeholder management.
• [ ] Translation & localization
• [ ] Go to Market
• [ ] More drag and drop wireframing tools for PMs (Balsamiq?)

Resources/Instructions

PM Project Board Topics & Templates List 3-Month CoP Meeting Plan

[kcoronel]

I choose these 3 topics: Different types of product management software - MSProjects, Monday.com, JIRA, MS Dynamics, Smartsheets, Trello, Aha!, Product Plan, Asana Scrum certifications How to understand product analysis, success metrics etc, how to define areas for improvement - Erika

[seenaiype]

Different types of product manager roles across industries and functionally Translation & localization

[gigicobos]

Pricing strategies? B2B, B2C - Grants/Sponsorships/Funding Analytics: FullStory, Heap, Mixpanel, Tableau, Snowflake, AppCues, Pendo - Alex

[Andan-Eddy]

different management styles for PMs

how to clearly articulate a project vision

[sobe-an]

Product Management for startups - Working with limited resources/roles as a PM

Understanding how to build a PM role in a startup

Building a Product Strategy and Roadmap