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Product Management in the Blockchain space. Click to read The Blockchain Product Manager, by Ken Ashe, Blockchain PM, a Substack publication
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12 kỹ năng cốt lõi mà Product Managers cần có
Gần đây, một sinh viên đã hỏi tôi về quản lý sản phẩm (product management) và những "bản lĩnh" cần có của một Product Manager. Tôi đã suy nghĩ và gửi cô ấy danh sách này. Điều quan trọng nhất là, tất cả những năng lực này đều có được nhờ học và thực hành chứ không phải cái gì quá cao siêu. Còn những thứ khác nữa, bạn sẽ học được qua quá trình thử và thất bại.
Tôi không liệt kê ở đây những thứ như Agile, scrum, roadmaps, backlogs, backlogs, user-story writing hay gì đó tương tự. Bạn có thể dễ dàng tìm hiểu về chúng qua vài cuốn sách. Biết về "Agile" trong một tổ chức sẽ không giúp nhiều cho bạn trong công việc sắp tới. Thay vào đó, học cách giao tiếp rõ ràng, tổ chức các cuộc họp 1 cách hiệu quả sẽ có ích cho bạn trong toàn bộ sự nghiệp (của một Product Manager, hoặc bất cứ nghề nào khác).
VÀ SAU ĐÂY LÀ 12 KỸ NĂNG CỐT LÕI MÀ MỘT PRODUCT MANAGERS CẦN CÓ:
Value Proposition
Cách đây 6-7 năm, khi mình mới bắt đầu tiếp xúc với mảng quản lý sản phẩm. Lúc này luôn đi loanh quanh xem mấy ông cùng ngành hoặc chính đối thủ cạnh tranh xem có gì hay rồi bắt chước. Vì mình làm mảng online retail mà cái này thì có vô vàn references khác nhau.
Product Managment
I'm reading at the moment some books about product management to improve my skills and enrich my knowledge in this amazing field. I'll be posting some of the important things that are in the heart and surround the topic.
I'll start with an amazing definition for the job of a product manager which I read in the book "The Product Manager's Desk Reference":
The primary function of the product manager is to choose the correct response to rapidly changing, complicated conditions, or in the best circumstances, to be able to anticipate and lead change.
Constructing the Product Roadmap
When I started out in the team, I was tasked out with coming out with a plan so that we can demonstrate the product with real data. The idea was to demonstrate it to our prospect with their own data and win them over. However, when I started working, I found out that what we lacked was not a plan but a vision. I quickly put together a one day workshop with our team and our product owner. When we started talking, we talked about several things and figured out that we needed a plan of various proportions. We needed a plan that could help us one the following:
Provide a focus for the long term with near term focus on just one thing
Help us talk to prospects on what we are going to do
Help us decide on when we would need to focus shift on which function - Engineering , sales etc
We also did a quick “Product in a box” exercise so that all of us in a team can practice and imbibe the elevator pitch. We needed this since we had to do this pitch at several levels - Internal as well as to prospects. This is how the “Product in a box” looks like.
This is how the product roadmap looks like.
Finding your target audience
The biggest task of the product manager is to find your target audience. Typically it is a very tight rope walk. You define it too narrowly and you would struggle to generalise the product later. You define it too broad and you would struggle to satisfy a lot of people and the product might not take off at all. There is this awesome post by Dave Mcclure on why Niche target segment works. Blog link here. What he says is mostly right and that is what we did as well. We did it mostly by accident. We had to define our niche because we could only talk to those kind of retailers and get data from them to start developing the data. It did have its upside. We were very clear on what we wanted to develop and we are slowly talking to retailers and adding more scenarios. As we are doing this, we are also talking to a slightly different set of retailers. This helps us incrementally build our product while also generalizing the existing features. In our case, we did not find our target audience. They found us.
From a Business Analyst to a Product Manager
Being a business analyst is probably the easiest part of the product manager.
I did not start out as a product manager and the role evolved naturally.
When I started my role in the product team, the following questions kept coming back.
Why are we doing this product? Is there enough need out there and do we know what returns we would get?
Do we know who we are building for and what are we building?
While these are innocuous questions that can be posed to a business analyst working on any IT project, what differed was there were no one person or team we could pose these questions to to arrive at answers.
We could also not design workshops in case there were multiple stakeholders to arrive at these answers.
I ended up doing the following and slowly what I started doing defined the role that I had taken up.
I started doing market research to understand what are the market segments available for my product
Visiting retailers and trying to understand their pain points helped us understand what we should build and who we should build for
Carrying lo-fi and functional prototypes to demonstrate and receive feedback.
However I would soon find out that there was way more to the product manager role than what meets the eye.