Becoming a More Strategic Product Manager: Nine Lessons, Nine Days
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Becoming a More Strategic Product Manager: Nine Lessons, Nine Days

Todd Birzer, 2018

Inhaltsverzeichnis des Buches

  • Introduction: Becoming a More Strategic Product Manager
  • Structure of This Book
  • Day 1: Balancing the Strategic and Tactical
  • Our Work as Product Managers
  • Why We Become Tactical
  • Where We Come From
  • Selectively Saying “No”
  • Program and Project Management
  • Product Support
  • Sales Support
  • Opportunity Cost
  • How to Say “No”
  • Saying “Yes”
  • Customer Analysis
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Strategy
  • Prioritization and Roadmapping
  • Discovery and Delivery
  • Pricing
  • Finding Growth
  • Day 1 Final Words
  • Day 1 on One Page
  • Day 2: Customer Analysis
  • KeepTruckin, ELDs, and Hours of Service
  • Ethnographic Research
  • Analyzing Customer Needs
  • Kano Model
  • Benefit Trees
  • Day 2 Final Words
  • Day 2 on One Page
  • Day 3: Competitive Analysis
  • Why Analyze Competitors?
  • Identifying and Prioritizing Competitors
  • Direct Competition
  • Category Competition
  • Substitutes, Market Evolution, and Disruptive Technology
  • What to Analyze
  • Market Share and Trends
  • Strategy and Investments
  • Target Markets
  • Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Technology Position
  • Pricing
  • Channel Strategy
  • Reaction Pattern
  • Documenting Your Analysis
  • Competitive Positioning
  • Competitive Selling-Against Tools
  • Disruptive Technology
  • Kodak
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Competitive Monitoring
  • Day 3 Final Words
  • Day 3 on One Page
  • Day 4: Strategy
  • Steps for Creating a Product Strategy
  • Form a Cross-Functional Team
  • Review Your Corporate Strategy
  • Examine Your Market Intelligence
  • Craft Your Vision and Objectives
  • Analyze, Think, and Discuss
  • Share and Enhance
  • Use and Iterate
  • Product Vision and Objectives
  • Wikimedia Foundation
  • SpaceX
  • Ancestry
  • Crafting a Vision
  • Objectives
  • Strategy Diamonds
  • Arenas
  • Vehicles
  • Differentiators
  • Staging and Pacing
  • Economic Logic
  • Integrating All Five Elements
  • Strategy Example: Nauto, Driver Safety, and Autonomous Vehicles
  • Yes, But Why?
  • Building Toward Autonomous
  • Nauto: Key Takeaways
  • Day 4 Final Words
  • Day 4 on One Page
  • Day 5: Prioritization and Roadmapping
  • Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
  • OKR Process
  • Development Buckets
  • Roadmapping
  • The What, the Why and the Dangers
  • Creating Roadmaps
  • Prioritization—An Example
  • Day 5 Final Words
  • Day 5 on One Page
  • Day 6: Discovery and Delivery
  • Discovery and Delivery
  • Ideas
  • Discovery
  • Delivery
  • Optimization
  • Discovery and Delivery as a Funnel
  • Concurrent and Parallel
  • Stage-Gates
  • Discovery and Delivery vs. Stage-Gates
  • Day 6 Final Words
  • Day 6 on One Page
  • Day 7: Pricing
  • Why Pricing Is Important
  • Why Pricing Is Hard for Product Managers
  • The 3Cs of Pricing
  • Pricing Approaches
  • Process of Pricing
  • Step 1: Review your Product Strategy
  • Step 2: Understand your Costs
  • Step 3: Analyze your Competitors and their Pricing
  • Step 4: Gauge your Value
  • Step 5: Recommend a Price
  • Step 6: Work on the Pricing Tactics
  • Step 7: Gain Consensus
  • Step 8: Experiment, Learn, and Refine
  • Discount Management
  • Steps for Managing Discounts
  • LinkedIn—Pricing Example
  • Day 7 Final Words
  • Day 7 on One Page
  • Day 8: Finding Growth
  • Growth throughout the Product Lifecycle
  • Offense
  • Defense
  • Growth Hacking
  • Udemy
  • Takeaways
  • Finding Growth: Step by Step
  • Day 8 Final Words
  • Day 8 on One Page
  • Day 9: Excellence in Product Management
  • The Three-Quarter Plan
  • Q1: Early Wins
  • Q2: Strategy and Growth
  • Q3: Refinement
  • Approach and Attitude
  • Hungry
  • Humble
  • Disciplined
  • Support Network
  • Day 9 Final Words
  • Day 9 on One Page
  • Quiz
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • References
  • About the Author