Product Manage Life: Personal Growth with PM Techniques

In this course, you will find proven strategies from product management with their powerful application to personal life, as well as real-world examples, and anecdotes you can relate to. Learn about core product management principles and frameworks applied to life: Value and Prioritization, Discovery, Agility and Lean, Interactions and Metrics.

Whether you are involved in product management for work or not, you’ll enjoy discovering the shared tools, practices and tricks, and get impactful results using them.

Course content:
Value and Prioritization

• Value and Time

• Value and Effort

• Value and Risk

• Pareto Principle

• Prioritization

Discovery

• Problem Framing and Defining Outcomes

• Visually Framing the Context (OST)

• Value Positioning Statements

• Working Backwards Model

• Cognitive Biases

• Feynman’s 12 questions

Agility and Lean

• Lean and Agile Landscape

  • Brief history of Agile

  • Brief history of Lean

• Some principles

  • Agile for Exploration

  • Lean for Optimization

  • Principles Related to Time and Commitment

• Some Practical Tools and Tips

• OODA Loop and PDSA

Interactions

• Dialogue and Questions

  • Listening to learn

  • Rhetorical Triangle: Ethos, Pathos, Logos

  • Socratic Questioning

  • Abstract and Concrete

• 4 Development Levels

• What Motivates Us – Drive

• Testing Ideas and Getting Feedback – Mom Test

• What Not to Do – Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Metrics

• Leading and Lagging Indicators

• OKRs

• KPIs and KFIs

• North Star Metric

• Bringing It All Together