In this workshop you will learn how highly-effective product managers use the principles and tool of Lean Product Management to achieve consistent high results:
- Deliver high-impact products and features to the market
- Align team, managers, stakeholders around common goals
- Be more effective in negotiations with mangers, stakeholders, team
- Choose the right ideas to invest in
- Move fast on execution and learning
- Reduce the overhead of planning and requirements (user stories / epics / tickets)
- Get agile teams to be more business-minded and autonomous
- Waste less time on debates and politics
- Have more fun at work...
Note: to pay via bank transfer, please email info@itamargilad.com
How the workshop works
- The workshop takes place over six weeks - one 2hr online session per week.
- Dates and times:
- Wednesday June 23rd 13:00-15:00 EDT / 10:00-12:00 PDT
- Wednesday June 30th 13:00-15:00 EDT / 10:00-12:00 PDT
- Wednesday July 7th 13:00-15:00 EDT / 10:00-12:00 PDT
- Wednesday July 14th 13:00-15:00 EDT / 10:00-12:00 PDT
- Wednesday. July 21st 13:00-15:00 EDT / 10:00-12:00 PDT
- Wednesday July 28th 13:00-15:00 EDT / 10:00-12:00 PDT
- We will use Zoom, Google Docs and Slack
- Exercises can be completed individually or in a group
- It's recommended that you use a computer with a webcam. You also need a google account and have Zoom and Slack installed.
Here’s what you will learn
Using an engaging combination of lecture, hands-on exercises, real-world case studies, and facilitated discussion, you will learn how to:
- What is Lean Product Management and why it's different
- Vision, mission, product strategy and how create them
- Value-to-customer and how to measure it
- Market segmentation, and product market fit
- The GIST planning framework (Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks)
- Setting goals
- The north star metric and top business KPI
- Metrics trees
- Objectives and key results
- Ideas
- Collecting ideas in Idea banks
- ICE prioritization
- Measuring confidence levels with the Confidence Meter
- Steps
- Breaking long projects into steps culminating in learning milestones
- Identifying assumptions
- Defining tests, experiments and MVPs
- Tasks
- Using GIST with agile teams
- Project management using the GIST board
- Building successful cross functional teams
- Management
- Working better with stakeholders and with managers
- Driving alignment
- How to stop being the project manager/backlog administrator
What you'll get
- 6 Online sessions: presentation, exercises, guided discussions, Q&A
- Online workbook for collaboration on exercises
- Templates and tools
- Ebooks: Idea Testing, Product Frameworks, OKRs
- Unlimited Q&A with Itamar over email / Slack
- Access to the community of GIST practitioners
Your Instructor
Itamar Gilad
Itamar Gilad is a veteran product manager, coach, and speaker. Over the past 20 years he held senior product management and engineering roles in Google, Microsoft and a number of startups. At Google Itamar launched Gmail's Tabbed Inbox and lead Gmail's growth team (resulting in 1Bn MAUs). Itamar publishes a popular product managements newsletter and is the creator of a number of product management methodologies including GIST planning and the Confidence Tool.
FAQ
Can I charge this event to my company?
Absolutely. Companies have allocated budgets for professional trainings like these. Please talk to your manager about acquiring a ticket through your company.
Can I pay using bank transfer?
Yes, as long as you're able to pay with Euros or USD. Please email info@itamargilad.com and we will send you an invoice.
Why am I asked to provide company name and VAT number?
We're collecting this information to comply with EU tax laws:
- If you're an EU company (except for Estonia) with an intracommunity VAT id, please enter that and you'll be charged 0% VAT
- If you're based outside the EU please enter your local tax id or 0 and you won't be charged VAT
- In all other cases (Estonian company, EU individual, EU company without intra-community VAT id) we will have to charge you 20% VAT. Please contact info@itamargilad.com and we will issue you an invoice with VAT included.
