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Product management learning and development

Welcome to Learning and Development for Product Management at Hyletic! You are welcome to explore content here. This page, together with Hyletic Learn for Product Management is what we consider and refer to as Hyletic's "Product L & D Hub".

The resources in the Product L & D Hub are meant to support product managers to explore, learn and grow at their own pace. We aim to collect content that spans various skill levels, as well as various levels of depth/commitment. It is recommended that product managers engage with the resources here to help them have a successful journey at Hyletic and in their product career as a whole.

We understand that the evolving product management space requires continuous learning, and Hyletic is committed to providing the time needed for in-depth learning too as part of your working time. You are encouraged to ask your manager to help you carve out time for Learning and Development.

These books are highly recommended to be read by every product manager at Hyletic:

Provides a general overview of Product Management

Product Management Peer Mentorship Program​

Overview​

We have a team of very talented Product Managers whom are all interested in up-leveling their leadership skills whether that be to Principal PM or into People Management. An important skill for either track is the ability to coach and mentor others. Right now, an overwhelming majority of the team is at the Senior level. In a traditional mentor program, people are assigned the role of mentor and mentee. Since most people are looking to mentor others, we have too many mentors and not enough mentees

In addition to growing leadership/mentoring skills, PMs also have other areas that they need coaching on, such as:

  • Customer discovery
  • Iteration & efficiency in the build track
  • Setting and evolving Performance Indicators
  • Sisense skills
  • Communicating vision and roadmap with well articulated prioritization

Proposal​

Establish a Peer mentorship program where PMs are paired based on respective strengths and areas that need growth. PMs can coach each other on the skill they are respectively strong in.

This is going to require PMs to volunteer as participants. Management will need to anonymously gather strengths and weaknesses for participants and work together to create pairs.

General Product Management learning content​

This content is divided into five key competencies for Product Managers.

💡 Discovery​

🚀 User stories​

Quick reads and videos​
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🚀 Backlog management​

Quick reads and videos​
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🚀 Working with Engineering​

Quick reads and videos​
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👣 Iteration​

Quick reads and videos​

📈 Business acumen​

💬 Relationships with customers​

Quick reads and videos​
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💬 Communicating to inspire, align, and activate​

Quick reads and videos​
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💬 Presentations, prepared and adhoc​

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Examples​

🤝 Team management​

🤝 Stakeholder management​

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🤝 Cross-functional team management​

Quick reads and videos​
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🤝 Direct team management​

New Manager Buddy Program​
  • For new Group Managers at Hyletic, we have an buddy program that matches the new Group Manager with a Senior leader (Director or above) in the Product team that is not in their direct reporting chain. This is an optional program to help new managers understand Hyletic management process, find a sounding board to discuss challenging situations in a safe space without judgement, and generally learn management techniques. Although this is targeted to new managers (typically first time managers), it is open to those who are becoming a manager for the first time at Hyletic but have been managers elsewhere.
Quick reads and videos​
Deeper dive​
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🤝 Leadership and influence​

Quick reads and videos​
Deeper dive​
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Product management thought leadership​

Blogs, videos and podcasts and more...​

There is a lot of amazing content and ongoing trends in the world of product development. Subscribing to blogs, video channels and other ongoing content streams is a great way to get inspiration on best practices and product innvoation with your team. Here are some recommendations on where to start:

Blogs​

Podcasts​

Newsletters​

Other​

Thought leaders and influencers​

One of the best ways to stay in the know is to follow people! There are a lot of folks openly sharing their ideas and best practices. We encourage you to follow and exchange ideas with people who inspire you. Here are some recommendations on where to start: