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Quick question❓
105
♟️ Career Strategy, 🗓️ Planning, ⚒️ Execution
3
How to use the Toolkit
Two challenges 🏋️
♟️ Negotiate like a baller
Myths that hold you back
Upfront negotiation: start early + example scenarios
Ongoing negotiation: what to expect + example scenarios
4
How I got big raises in 3 years
My $300K mistake + using equity to negotiate
Further reading
♟️ Thrive in your first 30/60/90 days
Career cold-start
Step-by-step guide: make the most of your first 90 days
10
Examples: starter projects & business equations
4
♟️ Manage your manager
Making your manager's life easy
4
Video: walk through examples of building trust
4
Templates & examples: 1:1s, status updates, wall of wins
13
Navigate hard conversations with example scenarios
2
Further reading
8
♟️ Advance your career
Treat your career like a product
How to advance your career
4
Template & example: goals and career roadmap
5
Should you leave your company?
2
Should you leave PM?
6
Further reading
🗓️ Lead planning
Why planning is a golden opportunity
How to stay organized and sane
Template & example: track progress, increase transparency
1
🗓️ Run productive brainstorms
Why brainstorms get a bad rep
Video: how might we questions, jobs to be done, strategy and more
6
Template & example: brainstorm materials, email
8
Set-up, tools, voting
2
🗓️ Compose a coherent roadmap
Organizing ideas into a roadmap
Video: how to turn brainstorm ideas into a roadmap
10
Template & example: unprioritized roadmap
9
🗓️ Prioritize like a portfolio
Creating compelling big picture
How to pick opportunities: types, allocation, portfolio
6
Video: how to turn a laundry list into opportunities
5
Video: how to score opportunities
10
Step-by-step guide: prioritizing roadmap, collaboration
2
Examples: prioritized roadmap
🗓️ Set focused OKRs
The truth about OKRs
Video: how to structure your OKRs
9
Video: how OKRs change based on company lifestage
4
How to structure OKRs and drive accountability
13
Template & example: sharing OKRs
4
How seriously should you take OKRs?
2
Metric precautions, bad OKRs, getting to real numbers
6
Further reading
🗓️ Track and report on OKR progress
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
Jobs to be done for tracking projects
2
Template & example: track projects, manage delays
2
⚒️ Interview customers with purpose
Types of customer interviews
Cautionary tales
Video: how to find the right questions for your customer interview
4
Templates & examples for each type of customer interview
Video: how to find customers and incentivize them to talk to you
2
Source & incentivize customers for new and existing products
Video: when to use interviews vs. surveys; example of survey questions
6
Interviews vs. surveys: when to use which
Further reading
6
⚒️ Case study: how to turn an idea into a launched product
Putting it all together
1
Example: clarification of problem, solution, how it will work
Example: customer outreach
Example customer interviews: questions, notes, takeaways
Competitive research / benchmarking
2
⚒️ Scope features to 10X your impact
Becoming a force multiplier
4
Kick off: what to focus on, email and PRD
3
Hand off: precaution, email and PRD
3
Examples: new vs. existing features
2
To ship or not to ship?
2
Further reading
⚒️ Design winning AB tests
Why you should do experiments
Mini-stats lessons
8
How to find promising experiments
Visual examples of winning experiments
Template & examples: new vs. existing features
2
Preventable failures, when to not experiment
2
Further reading
1
⚒️ Create insightful dashboards
Types of dashboards
Visual examples of bad dashboards
Templates & illustrations by dashboard type
8
Further reading
⚒️ Run effective meetings
Treat meetings like a product
2
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
3
Tame the meeting monster and maintain reasonable working hours
5
🎉 End here
PM Tech Stack - tools and links
7
One last thing
9
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Note from Linda
9
Quick question❓
105
♟️ Career Strategy, 🗓️ Planning, ⚒️ Execution
3
How to use the Toolkit
Two challenges 🏋️
♟️ Negotiate like a baller
Myths that hold you back
Upfront negotiation: start early + example scenarios
Ongoing negotiation: what to expect + example scenarios
4
How I got big raises in 3 years
My $300K mistake + using equity to negotiate
Further reading
♟️ Thrive in your first 30/60/90 days
Career cold-start
Step-by-step guide: make the most of your first 90 days
10
Examples: starter projects & business equations
4
♟️ Manage your manager
Making your manager's life easy
4
Video: walk through examples of building trust
4
Templates & examples: 1:1s, status updates, wall of wins
13
Navigate hard conversations with example scenarios
2
Further reading
8
♟️ Advance your career
Treat your career like a product
How to advance your career
4
Template & example: goals and career roadmap
5
Should you leave your company?
2
Should you leave PM?
6
Further reading
🗓️ Lead planning
Why planning is a golden opportunity
How to stay organized and sane
Template & example: track progress, increase transparency
1
🗓️ Run productive brainstorms
Why brainstorms get a bad rep
Video: how might we questions, jobs to be done, strategy and more
6
Template & example: brainstorm materials, email
8
Set-up, tools, voting
2
🗓️ Compose a coherent roadmap
Organizing ideas into a roadmap
Video: how to turn brainstorm ideas into a roadmap
10
Template & example: unprioritized roadmap
9
🗓️ Prioritize like a portfolio
Creating compelling big picture
How to pick opportunities: types, allocation, portfolio
6
Video: how to turn a laundry list into opportunities
5
Video: how to score opportunities
10
Step-by-step guide: prioritizing roadmap, collaboration
2
Examples: prioritized roadmap
🗓️ Set focused OKRs
The truth about OKRs
Video: how to structure your OKRs
9
Video: how OKRs change based on company lifestage
4
How to structure OKRs and drive accountability
13
Template & example: sharing OKRs
4
How seriously should you take OKRs?
2
Metric precautions, bad OKRs, getting to real numbers
6
Further reading
🗓️ Track and report on OKR progress
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
Jobs to be done for tracking projects
2
Template & example: track projects, manage delays
2
⚒️ Interview customers with purpose
Types of customer interviews
Cautionary tales
Video: how to find the right questions for your customer interview
4
Templates & examples for each type of customer interview
Video: how to find customers and incentivize them to talk to you
2
Source & incentivize customers for new and existing products
Video: when to use interviews vs. surveys; example of survey questions
6
Interviews vs. surveys: when to use which
Further reading
6
⚒️ Case study: how to turn an idea into a launched product
Putting it all together
1
Example: clarification of problem, solution, how it will work
Example: customer outreach
Example customer interviews: questions, notes, takeaways
Competitive research / benchmarking
2
⚒️ Scope features to 10X your impact
Becoming a force multiplier
4
Kick off: what to focus on, email and PRD
3
Hand off: precaution, email and PRD
3
Examples: new vs. existing features
2
To ship or not to ship?
2
Further reading
⚒️ Design winning AB tests
Why you should do experiments
Mini-stats lessons
8
How to find promising experiments
Visual examples of winning experiments
Template & examples: new vs. existing features
2
Preventable failures, when to not experiment
2
Further reading
1
⚒️ Create insightful dashboards
Types of dashboards
Visual examples of bad dashboards
Templates & illustrations by dashboard type
8
Further reading
⚒️ Run effective meetings
Treat meetings like a product
2
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
3
Tame the meeting monster and maintain reasonable working hours
5
🎉 End here
PM Tech Stack - tools and links
7
One last thing
9