Hello!I am Amit Paunikar

You can find me at @paunikar

Find your inner Product Manager

What is a Product

Manager?

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Product manger is the CEO of the product

- everyone

“Product Manager’s job is to discover a product that is valuable, usable and feasible

- Marty Cagan

“Product manager investigates, selects, and drives the development of products for an organization

- Wikipedia

Product Manager is someone who takes ownership for the failure of the product

Product does not sellProduct does not scaleProduct does not delightProduct looks like c$#p

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Blame the Product Manager

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What should we build?Why should we build it?Who will buy it?How should we build it?How should it look?How do we market it?How should we sell it?How do we support it?

CustomersEngineeringDesignMarketingLegalPRSalesSupport

10 WAYS TO THINK LIKE A PM

Empathy

Think like the customerInternalize basic needsBe the customers voice

Triple vision

Blue sky: 5 -10 year disruptorsHorizon: 6 month -1 year changesBattlefield: Next release

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Story tellerResponsibility with no authorityInfluence and seek buy-inInspire and motivate

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Venture outGo to a BD meetingSell your productSit on support calls

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Plan A, B and CFind ways to unblock and progressBe pragmatic, not emotionalLove the best solution (not your solution)

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Love thy dataData are apoliticalData > opinions Thought + instrumentation = Data

The WebGL Globe is an open platform for visualizing geographic data. • Get the code • By the Google Data Arts Team

Eat your dogfoodSolve your problemUse your productBe your own customer

Don’t assume; Test & analyzeAllow for surprisesBreak things (innovation is the fruit of failure)

Get your community involved

10X not 10%Embrace a new way of thinkingChallenge conventional wisdomSometimes 10X is easier than 10%

Credit:NASA

Pluto 2015

Pluto 1995

Embrace chaos

Credit:NASA

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Questions?You can find me at @paunikar & apaunikar@gmail.com