We talked about:

• Sara’s background
• Product designer’s responsibilities
• Data product manager’s responsibilities
• Planning with the team
• Design thinking and product design
• Data PMs vs regular PMs
• Skill requirements for Data PMs
• Going from a product designer to a data product manager
• Case studies
• Resources for learning about product management
• Data PM’s biggest challenge
• Multitasking and context switching
• Insights from user interviews
• Using new, unfamiliar tools
• Documentation
• Idea generation
• Do Data PMs need to know ML?

Links:

• Product Management Courses: https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/course and https://www.reforge.com/mastering-product-management
• Product Management Reading:
• https://svpg.com/inspired-how-to-create-products-customers-love/ and https://steveblank.com/category/customer-development/
• Data Engineering for Noobs: https://www.datacamp.com/

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