
Explore beyond the basics of product management by understanding the role for product managers and stakeholders, the three missions, key frameworks, common misconceptions, and how to build a product culture.
Explore the three core missions of product management: finding a problem worth solving, identifying a solution worth building, and guiding teams to market, through desirability, viability, and feasibility.
Apply DiVECo design thinking framework to diverge and converge on multiple solutions, prototype and validate them for desirability, viability, and feasibility, and select a single solution worth building for stakeholders.
Lead the team by breaking down the solution, prioritizing value, reducing work in progress, and promoting completed work, using jobs stories and the Mizzy mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive framework.
Prioritize and sequence work to front-load value through milestones, delivering user and business impact while managing work in progress and evangelizing features to users.
Discover the problem, plan with prioritization and a roadmap, and execute by defining specs and building features. Measure success with defined metrics, evaluate results, and iterate toward improvement.
Explain the differences between product management, project management, and product ownership, emphasizing owning the product definition and roadmap, balancing business and customer impact, and agile role overlap.
Explore how product collaborates with engineering, business, design, and customers to decide why and what to deliver through negotiation and how to architect the solution.
Explore good metaphors for product management, from quarterback to point guard and team coach, to protect the team, advocate for the customer, and say no to taking on everything.
Develop empathy to align stakeholders and solve users' problems, and guide trade-offs with strategic thinking, clear communication, and data-driven decisions.
Cultivate a product-friendly culture by streamlining communication and reducing politics hindering collaboration. Prioritize talking to customers and running experiments, and define success by metrics: retention, onboarding, churn, and monetization.
A crash course in the true role of product management.
Created for stakeholders and early-intermediate product managers who want to go beyond the basics of what a great product manager does and how they work best with other roles.
I'm Bryce York and I've been a product manager in early-stage and growth-stage startups for over 10 years.
In that time I've worked across management consulting, ad tech, education, and fintech and this crash course draws on that full breadth of experience.
I've built products and shipped features resulting in seven-figure results for companies ranging from 5 to 300 employees.
I've also founded and grown my own startups and was fortunate enough to exit one of them in late 2019.
In this crash course, you'll learn:
The 3 critical missions of a great PM and the 2 most practical frameworks for getting them right
The truth about the 2 most common (and damaging) misconceptions of product management
What makes a great product manager? And what are their most important skills?
The shared responsibilities between product management and other roles
How to build a culture where product management thrives (based on facts & stats)