The Elements of Product Management

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The importance of defining product principles to guide product decisions
What are product principles and how to development them
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Shaw Li

February 2023

How managing ML-enabled products requires you to think differently
Adjusting to think in terms of probabilities and using data to identify problems
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Shaw Li

December 2022

Arguing about data instead of arguing about ideas
Using data from experiment to validate ideas instead of arguing about the idea
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Shaw Li
Ultimate Prioritization Templates
One notion template to rule them all
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Shaw Li

November 2022

Why prioritization sometimes feels like art rather than science.
There is no art. There's only communication, both what is and isn't communicated.
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Fear paraylzes, which destroys action
When we are afraid of making a mistake, we're really afraid of humiliation.
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October 2022

Rethinking outcome-based product roadmap to plan for uncertainty (part 2).
Yes, this one has a new template and it's in Notion.
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Shaw Li
Understand why it's okay to be output oriented...in many cases.
Outcome over output rather than outcome versus output. When you can't control outcome, you control what you can, which is the quality and quantity of…
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Shaw Li
Rethinking outcome-based product roadmap to plan for uncertainty (part 1).
Understand that a roadmap should define the what before communicating the how. Ideas for how to improve outcome-based product roadmaps.
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Shaw Li
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September 2022

The importance of flow
What is flow and how to reach flow
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Shaw Li
Most products are built by a group of people. Learn how to facilitate a workshop to get people to collaborate.
An individual's skills and expertise matter, but skills and expertise might not be the most important.
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Shaw Li

August 2022

Why training in SAFe or scaling agile is wrong for PMs early in their careers
It's good to learn processes, but knowing how to apply a formula isn't the same as understanding fundamental principles.
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Shaw Li
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