List of topics for Product Management Community of Practice

[Olivia-Chiong]

Overview

Create a list of topics for the weekly product management community of practice meetings. This is a work in progress. We are currently curating and updating the relevant issues for each topic and will include any resources when it is available.

Action Items

Wishlist of topics

• Job Search
  • Mentoring sessions
  • Interview resources
  • Typical company life cycle (for job search)
  • How to add Hack for LA experience to your resume
  • How to coach members of your team on their resumes
  • How to do Reference calls for your team members
  • How to support volunteers who need proof of volunteering
  • Different types of product manager roles across industries and functionally
• Different types of product management software - MSProjects, Monday.com, JIRA, MS Dynamics, Smartsheets, Trello, Aha!, Product Plan, Asana
• Analytics: FullStory, Heap, Mixpanel, Tableau, Snowflake, AppCues, Pendo - Alex
• FREE Software that can be used
• How do you recruit users for civic tech project test users, customer interviews, user testing?
• How do you conduct product discovery or customer development - Ravi
• HIPAA - how to comply, privacy policies
• How to understand product analysis, success metrics etc, how to define areas for improvement - Erika
• Basics of product management
• product management life cycle
• LEAN product development
• Different types of Agile - Iffath
• Prioritization frameworks - Khushboo
• Scrum certifications
• Pricing strategies? B2B, B2C - Grants/Sponsorships/Funding
• How to make municipal connections, government connections
• Technical coaching to communicate with devs/designers
• Roles/Responsibilities of a product pod (Product, design, devs)
• Personas, User Stories and journeys - Niven
• OKRs
• Soft skills - team management, stakeholder management.
• Translation & localization
• Go to Market
• More drag and drop wireframing tools for PMs (Balsamiq?)

Resources/Instructions

PM Project Board Topics & Templates List
3-Month CoP Meeting Plan

[kcoronel]

I choose these 3 topics: Different types of product management software - MSProjects, Monday.com, JIRA, MS Dynamics, Smartsheets, Trello, Aha!, Product Plan, Asana
Scrum certifications
How to understand product analysis, success metrics etc, how to define areas for improvement - Erika

[seenaiype]

Different types of product manager roles across industries and functionally
Translation & localization

[gigicobos]

Pricing strategies? B2B, B2C - Grants/Sponsorships/Funding
Analytics: FullStory, Heap, Mixpanel, Tableau, Snowflake, AppCues, Pendo - Alex

[Andan-Eddy]

different management styles for PMs

how to clearly articulate a project vision

[sobe-an]

Product Management for startups - Working with limited resources/roles as a PM

Understanding how to build a PM role in a startup

Building a Product Strategy and Roadmap