Your Product Cheat Sheet
The Best of 48 - 36 - 6 - 3
This week, I have created a cheat sheet to my best content from 2021. You can find links to highlights from the 48 videos, 36 blog posts, 6 conferences, and 3 podcasts that I created last year.
As we kick off the new year, you can help support my work in 2022 in two ways:
I love sharing what I’ve learned and trying out new things, and look forward to continuing to create this year. Thank you for your support!
48 videos
I experimented with new forms of content this year, with my Friday Flashes video series and accompanying Productive Product Manager journal. Each video introduces a product-focused topic of reflection for the week and ties back to one of the ten disciplines in the Product Decagon. I took the weekly reflection prompts, combined them with pages for weekly review, and created the Productive Product Manager to provide a guided journal for those that prefer pen and paper.
I’ve published 48 one-minute Friday Flashes videos so far, and have 4 more videos coming in the next month to round out this 52 week series. Although viewership numbers are still low, it’s fulfilling to receive feedback like these from product managers that are getting value out of them:
“I like your idea about Friday flashes and it helps me to think about topics which I wouldn’t have reflected before.”
Catch up with the 5 most recent Friday Flashes
36 blog posts
I started writing at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and kept it up with 36 more posts over this past year. It was exciting to see my stories reach people from 60 countries around the world, nurture my newsletter subscribers from a tiny audience into a still small but growing audience, and even have a few of my articles organically rank in the top 10 search results on Google.
Read up on the top 5 most popular posts from 2021
The First 90 Days as a New Product Manager
6 conferences
After introducing the Product Decagon framework in 2020, I focused on sharing the Product Decagon framework with more audiences this year. I gave keynotes about the Product Decagon at the Prow, INDUSTRY, and Women Transforming Technology Conferences. I also spoke on panels about stakeholder management at the UXDX Conference and shared product management learnings at Apptentive’s Coffee with PM’s. Product School loved my talk “So Easy a Toddler Can Do It” and hosted another LinkedIn Live to share the talk with the community who may have missed the original broadcast.
Keep learning and growing with talks on demand
Electrify your product management career with the Product Decagon
3 podcasts
Podcasting was another first for me this year. Even though I didn’t start my own podcast, I had the opportunity to be a guest on three different podcasts. I especially loved helping my friend, Parul Goel, kick off her Unseen Battles podcast as the guest on her very first episode. Regardless, after two years of the pandemic and working from home, it was a treat to be able to talk shop with other product leaders.
Tune into product and technology podcasts
I hope this cheat sheet will help you accomplish your goals of sharpening your product craft. Thank you for supporting my work this year by:
