The Elements of Product Management

The importance of defining product principles to guide product decisions

What are product principles and how to development them

Mar 1, 2023 • 

Shaw Li

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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

Feb 2, 2023 • 

Shaw Li

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December 2022

Arguing about data instead of arguing about ideas

Using data from experiment to validate ideas instead of arguing about the idea

Dec 22, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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Ultimate Prioritization Templates

One notion template to rule them all

Dec 8, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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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.

Nov 24, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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Fear paraylzes, which destroys action

When we are afraid of making a mistake, we're really afraid of humiliation.

Nov 10, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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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.

Oct 27, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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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…

Oct 13, 2022 • 

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.

Oct 6, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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September 2022

The importance of flow

What is flow and how to reach flow

Sep 22, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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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.

Sep 14, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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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.

Aug 31, 2022 • 

Shaw Li

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