Satyajeet Salgar

Dec 2023

Aug 2024

Unlock the next level in your PM career! Dive deep, gain insight, and accelerate your career by discussing real PM challenges.

Director of Product and UX, Google AI

Product Gym - Cases in Product Management 

Product Manager

Group Product Manager

Product Manager 

Senior Product manager

Product Partnerships / Biz Dev

This is a case-based course that takes you behind the scenes of real-world product successes and failures. Get into the minds of product managers in hard situations, and work through the strategies, insights and mistakes they made - in the process supercharging your own skills and building your playbook. Based on real products and situations, expect a lot of discussion with the instructor and your peers as we work through different challenges PMs have - product strategy, communication, execution and career management - pushing your thinking and equipping yourself with the skills to advance your career.

Dive into and learn from real PM strategy, metrics, org and career challenges 

Course syllabus

We meet twice a week. Expect to pre-read a short case before each class. We will start with a presentation and then launch into the case discussion with Q&amp;A at the end.

Tuesdays & Thursdays

2 weeks starting in early March

Each week will have a short case or set of cases for the class to read, which we will discuss. Optional reading/listening associated with the class will be assigned each week.

Pre-read and optional reading

Course schedule

Ambitious Product leaders (PM, UX, Eng, Ops) who need to upgrade their playbook and mental models to make better decisions and succeed.

Senior/Group PMs and Directors who want to up-level strategy, influence, communication and career decision-making.

People who want to connect with other elite PMs - share war stories and pro tips. Unlock the next level of leadership! Open Q&amp;A each week.

Who is this course for and what you'll get... 

Discuss situations that real PMs faced - cases on<ol><li>Ecosystem strategy</li><li>Product execution and metrics</li><li>Communication and building consensus within a large company</li><li>Career management and decisions</li></ol>

Work across 4 sessions on cases based on real world PM experiences

The first case will work through bets to grow a nascent product dependent on different kinds of partners and complex distribution to grow - and will ask if the product should survive at all. The class will equip you with a mental model for ecosystem and partner dynamics.

Strategy: Understand the complexity of growing a product dependent on an ecosystem

The second case will cover defining the right metrics for an established and a new product, and we'll work through how to drive that metric and the trade-offs it will involve. The class will equip you with tools and principles to pick and drive metrics for your products.

Product Execution: Understand how to identify metrics for a complex product and trade-offs to drive that metric

The third class will cover a couple of examples of PM being faced with risk - partner, legal and regulatory. You will leave with inspiration and frameworks on how to make bold bets under pressure and trying circumstances.

Risk: How to quantify it and be bold, while being smart and ambitious

In the final class, we'll look at three examples of people making career decisions on what to do next, and learn from their choices. Leave with tools to evaluate how to pick the next project, next job and even a new job function.

Career Management: How to think about your next move and the moves after that... 

The Good PM, The Bad PM, and The Great PM

Director of Product Management and UX, Google AI

Get specific examples of what separates bad/good/great PMs and what habits you can adopt to become more effective

Case studies on bad vs. good vs. great PMs

Build a plan on what you can start doing differently today to help your career

Create your action plan

Tips on how to communicate your value better as a product manager

Interview better

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You will get specific examples on how you can prevent mistakes and adopt new habits that let you be a more effective PM

Learn from a couple of examples what separates PMs

Understand what you can star doing differently right away to help your PM career

An action plan!

Learn how to come across better in interviews as a Product Manager

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