This document discusses how product managers can generalize their skills across different roles and products. It begins with an introduction to the speaker and an overview of product management roles as either specialists focused on one product or generalists who can work on various products. The main section identifies three core skills that can transfer to any product management job: framing information into a perspective, effective communication, and driving projects forward. It emphasizes embracing growth, focusing on people, and enjoying the work. The conclusion encourages discovering new possibilities through experience rather than just theory and provides information on product management training courses.

1. Generalizing Your PM Skills
by Google Product Leader
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5. Generalizing Your
PM Skills
Manosai Eerabathini

6. Agenda
1. About Me
2. The PM Job: Specialist vs. Generalist
3. 3 PM Skills to Master for Any PM Job
4. Takeaways
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7. About Me
Currently a PM at Google, working on Google Maps
Formerly PM at Vevo & Microsoft
Engineering at UPenn
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8. The PM Job
Specialist vs. Generalist

9. The PM Job
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“A product manager is a professional role
that is responsible for the development of
products for an organization, known as
the practice of product management.
Product managers own the business
strategy behind a product, specify its
functional requirements, and generally
manage the launch of features.”

10. PM Specialists
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11. PM Generalists
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12. I & T-Shaped PMs
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13. Top 3 PM Generalizable
Skills
Learn how to embrace these as your core skills no matter your
product/feature/team you are on as a PM

14. 1. The Art of Framing
Your ability to take disparate pieces of information and synthesize these
inputs into a packaged perspective. If you don’t do it, no one else will.
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15. 2. The Art of Communication
How you convey your points and also who you are communicating with
are critical parts of the job. More than that, you have to be an effective
storyteller that’s constantly reinforcing a narrative.
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16. 3. The Art of Moving Forward
You’re the PM. You need to unblock. You need to hit dates. You need to
move forward. And there’s real benefit to it.
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17. Takeaways
So how do you incorporate these to become a better PM?

18. Principles 101
Growth-First
If you embrace a growth
mindset, you will learn a
lot no matter which
product you’re working on.
You’ll be guaranteed a
challenge each time.
People-First
Even if you work at a
100,000 person company
or a 10 person startup,
you’re still working with
people all the time as a
PM. Remember that and
don’t lose sight of it.
Enjoy It
You get to build and ship
experiences that users get
their hands on. It’s a
privilege, but it should
also be fun. No matter
how big or small your
product is. So enjoy it!
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19. “ “We discover the possibilities by
doing, by trying new activities,
building new networks, finding
new role models." We learn who
we are in practice, not in theory.”
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