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Leading PMs
PM Attributes - Self Assessment
Sean Horgan
PM Attributes
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Product & Design Fundamentals
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1. Articulates why a product needs to exist, e.g. compelling product-market-fit
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2. Strong product intuition that adds value to user research & design
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3. Holistic understanding of user-centered design, e.g. user pain points, prototyping, validation.
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4. Instruments and iterates product based on quantitative and qualitative measures of success
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5. Executes plans toward desired product outcomes (not simply outputs)
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Strategic Insights
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1. Articulates strategy on why and how an opportunity should be pursued
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2. Considers roles of competitors, partners, and regulators
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3. Identifies related technologies, trends, and standards
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4. Sets and drives a long term business strategy across product & service elements
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5. Connects short-term and long-term product strategy and roadmap in complex and fast moving industries
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Analytical
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1. Can identify, analyze & solve problems in organized way
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2. Offers more than one way to tackle problem, effectively evaluate solutions & decide which to pursue
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3. Leaverages analytical methods to build consensus in ambiguous areas w/ diverse constituents
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4. Provides multiple topline success metrics & decomposes general ones into specifics
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5. Ties metrics to goals and outcomes of overall product.
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Communication
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1. Engaging and poised communicator, enthusiastic but not overbearing
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2. Not defensive when ideas are challenged, respectful of other views
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3. Presents methods, rationale, & findings in a compelling and persuasive manner
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4. Engages cross-functional teams as part of product design and development, identifies and resolves conflicts
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5. Able to succinctly summarize in a 30 second elevator pitch, give a 5 minute overview, or give an in-depth presentation / discussion
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Technical
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1. Can explain tech problem to non-tech person & experiment in complex domain to inform strategy
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2. Describes product's system architecture & how that impacts product decisions
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3. Works well with eng to solve product issues within tech constraints
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4. Understands how to build products which can be deployed efficiently across a market segment
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5. Accounts for the impact of changes in plan to engineering teams
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Entrepreneurship
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1. Develops landscape. Understand the market landscape, identify the initial business problems to solve and innovations required to solve them, identify early adopters and pathways to broader market adoption
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2. Go to market. Develop and continuously refine the value proposition, execute an adaptive go-to-market plan, build a customer pipeline from zero, qualify customers, negotiate terms and close deals
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3. Focus. Identify the most critical work, ensure team is solely focused on it and protects them from distractions, qualify and fiercely prioritize new opportunities
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4. Resourceful. Identify gaps in our solution and team and fills them, recruit world-class talent, mentor, coach, and level up the team
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5. Grit. Resilient to adversity, stamina to power through uncertainty and failure, overcome setbacks
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Leadership
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1. Self aware. Knows own strengths and weaknesses, centered, transparent, humble, authentic, and dedicated to Verily’s values
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2. Inspirational. Inspires and motivates others, tells a compelling product story & vision with conviction, connects product goals to each person on the team
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3. Compassionate. Cares deeply and serves the needs of the team, objectively assess situations, knows when to take charge, when to delegate, and how to grow new leaders
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4. Get Things Done. Shows up, seeks responsibility, makes sound and timely decisions, bias for action and sets the pace, creates a shared sense of purpose throughout team
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5. Thrives in Ambiguity. Unafraid to take on challenges and make hard decisions with incomplete information, mitigates risks, embraces ambiguity and increases clarity
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Creativity
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1. Identify many meaningful feature improvements
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2. Identify novel products in diverse industries
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3. Able to tie exciting and unintuitive insights from adjacent industries into problems being solved
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4. Asks surprising questions that demonstrate infectious curiosity
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