PM Onboarding Practices
back with a “5 minute Friday” audio edition
key concepts I cover in this snippet:
use the product as multiple personas
demo the product to different audiences
do a teardown for the product team
absorb the history of product decisions
get the market’s PoV on the product
reverse engineer the product strategy
a complete set of onboarding artifacts for a B2B product looks like the below
I’d love to hear from listeners about the practices they’ve used to onboard new PMs - please chime in via comments👇. And if you enjoyed this post, please consider subscribing.
further reading / references
You can read more about B2B product onboarding artifacts here
teardowns are a good learning exercise for PM teams beyond onboarding
I’ve written extensively about articulating and implementing product strategy before, and that clarity of thought (or lack thereof) is very obvious to new hires: pitching your PoV, legibility and synchronicity, garbage in / garbage out, and pressure testing
childish drawing / interpretation
PM Onboarding Practices