- ADDA product management : surbhi
- product manager: how its gonna be built
- sits between engineering and design
- based on capacity, what do we build
- a lot of figuring out how to manage time
- customer centric, user focused
- talking to customers, users, understanding what user pain points and needs are
- BEING A PRODUCT MANAGER MAKES A LOT OF SENSE FOR ME BEFORE STARTING MY OWN COMPANY
- has to fall in line with larger objectives for the companies
- what surbhi does at Microsoft
- lots of customer convos
- small, big, frontline workers, talks to all sorts of customers
- what is working, what isn't with the teams product
- decide what we want to build based on that
- MVP: smallest thing to satisfy user needs
- roadmaping, thinking about what is gonna get built in 6-9 months
- talks to engineering team daily, talks to designers (product, UX)
- lots of wireframing and prototyping → makes sure what were designing fulfills user needs
- YOU OWN THE PRODUCT from phase 0 to 100 (super sick)
- gets to see something to fruition
- engineers come in with the constraints
- what does the tech stack have
- speaks the most w ENGINEERING & DESIGN
- works w sales, marketing, UX research
- very cross functional role
- CS → PM (makes tons of sense, not even a pivot)
- how did you make your major more PM relevant?
- Design and aigle product management (Business school)
- Human factors / human factors design
- Humans and machines
- UX design → Lydia Chilton
- Design @ Columbia (!!!!)
- what is the PM mindset?
- has a PM tiktok! @surbhilately
- difference between engineer v. PM?
- VERY DIFFERENT!
- engineer: doing the programming all day, heavy coding work
- at barnard, lots of leadership positions, meeting people, relationship management
- skillset fit perfectly with product management
- getting the PM internship is totally doable