Inside a Product Manager's Day: 3 Key Responsibilities Explained 🚀

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Hello! In this video, I'm breaking how exactly how a Product Manager spends time and what work we do.
1. Meetings
2. Strategic Work (long term thinking)
3. Tactical Work

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PS I was inspired to make this video after watching @AnastasiaKVL’s video on product data scientist. I've taken alot of inspo from her format as it was so well articulated. See her awesomely Informative video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnwIpfp3rI4&t=317s

Really hope this brings insight into this highly in-demand and challenging role!

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Topics discussed:
0:00 Intro
5:01 Meetings
5:35 Company meetings
6:30 1:1s
7:42 Engineering team meetings
8:42 Product meetings
10:13 Project meetings
10:46 Cross-functional meetings
11:46 Meeting tips

12:35 Strategic Work
12:59 Company priorities
13:30 Research
14:58 Socialising roadmap
15:27 Roadmap dependencies
16:04 Strategic thinking

16:38 Tactical Work
18:00 Product development lifecycle
18:38 Research
19:35 Requirements
20:46 Release plan
21:25 Product design
23:37 Development
25:27 Understanding technical solution and trade offs
27:31 Pre-launch activities
28:45 Customer management

30:47 Thanks for watching!

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