Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Prioritization and Stakeholder Alignment
Covers frameworks and practices for prioritizing work, aligning stakeholders, and allocating limited resources across features projects and operational needs. Topics include impact versus effort and weighted scoring models, RICE and similar frameworks, sequencing dependent work, handling competing or conflicting priorities, negotiating trade offs with business and engineering partners, creating governance and escalation paths, communicating deprioritization decisions, and measuring outcomes to validate prioritization. Senior assessments include strategic resource allocation across teams and portfolios and techniques for building cross functional consensus.
Balancing Technical Constraints with Product Goals
Recognizing that technical constraints (infrastructure limitations, scalability, technical debt, architectural decisions) meaningfully impact product possibilities. Understanding when to ask engineers about feasibility without delegating all technical decisions to them. Demonstrating respect for engineering realities while advocating for users/business.