Become a Product Manager for digital products and services - Official Anthropos Skill Path

Product managers drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. While one can often quickly comprehend the basic responsibilities of the role, mastering each of these dimensions is truly an art form that one is constantly honing. In this presentation I'll share my lessons learned over the last decade as a product manager in Silicon Valley on the art behind each of these dimensions of product management. Sachin Rekhi is a serial entrepreneur and product leader who has spent the last decade developing innovative products in Silicon Valley.

This is a great overview of the skills every product manager needs to master. Most of them will be explained in our path but this is a great overview for you to understand more about the role.

What does it mean to be a leader? How does that differ from being a manager? Seth Godin does an amazing job of explaining what leadership is about. You will learn what makes leaders unique and how you can develop skills to improve your leadership.

Learning how to influence people is a fundamental skill for product managers. In this podcast, we will teach you how to think and develop this skill and then how to start using it in your role of product manager.

A great course on why leadership is such a critical factor in the results a team can achieve.

In this great course you will learn more about the concept of product vision and why it matters in the world of product managers. A former Product Executive at Amazon will introduce you to the idea of thinking about vision and strategy in your product first and she explains why doing it the right way makes all the difference in your execution.

Managing stakeholders will require several hours of your time every day. In this course you will learn how to effectively manage them to make sure they are aligned with your objectives and can collaborate with you and your team.

In this closing keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, product discovery coach Teresa Torres shares her insights on how product managers can co-create solutions with stakeholders and better manage expectations.

Let's start understanding what is a product roadmap and why it matters.

Bruce McCarthy, the founder of Product Culture, talks about one of the key skills for product people when launching a product roadmap…ruthless prioritization. In this video, Bruce McCarthy takes us through the steps of ruthless prioritization so leaders can sift through the good ideas to find great ideas and leverage plans that will make the biggest difference.

A great article that explains in detail how you change your mind about product roadmaps and how it helps product managers understand even more the motivation behind solving their customers' problems.

To get your product funded and staffed, to get your team and your stakeholders aligned, to keep your customers and your executive sponsors engaged -- for your roadmap to have a chance, you’ve got to become the consummate product leader. In this talk, Bruce McCarthy walks you through his process for leveraging a great roadmap to drive and maintain alignment within your team, among your stakeholders, and across your organization.

A simple and comprehensive introduction to the critical communication skills you need to learn as a product manager.

Learn an approachable guide to becoming more effective and navigating the challenging collaborative aspects of the product manager’s role in this webinar with Ken Sandy, ex-VP Product at MasterClass and, author of The Influential Product Manager.

Strategic narratives make businesses successful with perfect alignment across product, marketing, sales and operations. Learn more about building strategic narratives with this fantastic podcast with Andy Raskin.

This is a great lesson on how to use data to drive your decision as Product Manager.

A great reflection on how you can actually start measuring things before you complete them.

Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois University) gets you started on the critical thinking journey. He tells you what critical thinking is, what an argument is, and what the difference between a deductive and an ampliative argument is.

What is the best approach to solving a problem, especially a product problem? This video has my framework: a simple yet effective way in which I think about products and solve most product problems (while building new products or features). It is also an approach that can be used during product interviews and I've also used it to make career decisions.

What makes a Product Manager successful — strategic thinking, writing, communication, negotiation, intuition…? What do you think it takes to become a great Product Manager?

Negotiation is problem solving. The goal is not to get a deal; the goal is to get a good deal. Four steps to achieving a successful negotiation: assess, prepare, ask, package. Women increase the chance of a success when a proposal is framed in terms of benefits to your counterparts, team, or organization. Three questions to prepare women to enter a negotiation: Why are you asking? How are you asking? For whom are you asking?

Youngme, Mihir, and Felix invite their friend and negotiations expert, Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhotra, to discuss the art of negotiation, as well as his new science fiction novel, The Peacemaker’s Code.

A first intro to customer discovery and how you can do with multiple approaches.

YC partners Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss how spending real time with your users can unlock insights and growth.

YC Partner Eric Migicovsky outlines a framework for asking questions and collecting feedback from your users.

In this snippet from a bigger show, Simon Sinek explain what empathy is about and how you can learn it.

In today’s episode, we talk about leadership, and how to lead with empathy. We dig into DoorDash’s unique culture and touch on the WeDash program, which requires every employee to complete four deliveries a year in order to better understand the customer experience.

From making small copy changes to finalising what the MVP of a new feature should be — a Product Manager’s life is full of decisions. And the ability to make the right decisions at the right time and communicate them effectively is what makes a product manager successful.

“Build it, and they will come” is a dangerous mindset in the startup world. Even if you create a great product, building a successful company around it can be nuanced and challenging. In addition to product development, you need to find and prove product-market fit—then repeat and scale through sales and marketing.

YC Group Partner Aaron Epstein talks about different startup business models, how to monetize, and how to price your product. Pricing and monetization is one of the most common questions from founders, and this talk outlines 9 business models as well as highlighting business model lessons from the top YC companies.