Online Lean Product Management Workshop - June 2021 (US Timezone)

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.