Path to Product Management by Kelly Chou©

Editor's Notes

• #6: https://youtu.be/YvT_gqs5ETk
• #8: PMs focus on the problem and iterate on solutions over time https://www.dthomason.com/essays/the-car-product-development-stages-analogy-sucks Suggested by Tyler Adams
• #11: Reference: https://towardsdatascience.com/designing-data-products-b6b93edf3d23 How product engineers use data (event schema) How data scientist and machine learning engineers use data (build model and productionize model) How consumer product managers use data How marketing uses data How sales use data How exec use data
• #12: Reference: https://towardsdatascience.com/designing-data-products-b6b93edf3d23 How product engineers use data (event schema) How data scientist and machine learning engineers use data (build model and productionize model) How consumer product managers use data How marketing uses data How sales use data How exec use data
• #13: Data Product Definition Reference: https://towardsdatascience.com/designing-data-products-b6b93edf3d23 How product engineers use data (event schema) How data scientist and machine learning engineers use data (build model and productionize model) How consumer product managers use data How marketing uses data How sales use data How exec use data
• #14: Reference: https://towardsdatascience.com/designing-data-products-b6b93edf3d23 How product engineers use data (event schema) How data scientist and machine learning engineers use data (build model and productionize model) How consumer product managers use data How marketing uses data How sales use data How exec use data
• #15: Reference: https://towardsdatascience.com/designing-data-products-b6b93edf3d23 How product engineers use data (event schema) How data scientist and machine learning engineers use data (build model and productionize model) How consumer product managers use data How marketing uses data How sales use data How exec use data
• #17: Quote from a mentor. Looking back, I can explain the why, but it wasn’t a conscious decision. I discovered PM naturally through many trials and errors.
• #20: It was a long journey of exploration Sitting in an Econ class with a bucket of art supplies; I was a bit of a misfit. Obsessed with the user journey of seeing and taking a flyer. Sold a macbook pro for a BMW and built a video production business in the Bay Area. Observed conversations behind VCs like AngelList and sat in LP meetings. Spotted a market trend. I learned that I liked the business to art translation but didn’t like the inability to measure impact. “AI apocalypse” inspired me into DS. Can DS solve mental health? I learned that I didn’t like to be a “specialist”. I learned that I was most excited about talking to stakeholders to understand their needs and find ways to display data or model results in ways that stakeholders can digest. Followed another trend in online course building. Pivoted video production into online course. This pivot was also a good timing as Covid hit and everyone went into remote learning. Fell in love with user testing, prototyping, defining success, running sprints…etc. This is when I discovered PM and fell in love with it. I was sitting on a giant bungee at a hacker house backyard with the Google AI researcher translating his mind into content Then we invited a group of beta users to test the content live and get their feedback What I’ve learned about myself: don’t like to be pigeon holed; enjoy the diversity of tasks and people; enjoy being a leader Key message It’s okay to not know what to do for a career for a while; stay open; keep exploring. How I discovered my path was by being obsessed with human experiences, following curiosity; follow my intuition on the market trends; wanting to be a leaders, and making friends along the way.
• #21: Quote from a mentor
• #23: Quote from a mentor
• #25: Quote from a mentor
• #29: This is why PMs get paid so much This is why we stay up late sometimes
• #35: Link to the template here: https://trello.com/b/NXQ2pPbG