The only career in our life is to be a student. As a product manager, we need to keep learning to enrich our product knowledge, industry knowledge and project management knowledge.
Product knowledge is divided into three categories: tao, method and technique;
Skill refers to the ability to master tools/skills, such as Excel, PPT, Axure and other software; This skill has no threshold, basically practice a few times will be, belong to primary knowledge;
Law is the mastery of the existing objective laws/methods of the world; Rules/methods exist objectively and need to be explored. Such as learning method, problem solving method, thinking method, communication method; Need you to grope in practice, constantly summarize, finally can master; For example, how to determine the mass of the sun, you need to learn the knowledge of physics, after mastering the relevant knowledge, can deduce the calculation;
These objective laws/methods, just like a vast ocean, how much to master depends on each person’s interest and execution; The more you master, the deeper your insight into the world, and the higher your vision;
The tao is your way of thinking. For example, if you think you can’t do this thing, you don’t know what way to do it, so you give up. This is a way of thinking.
While some people have another way of thinking, they will choose to think at a deeper level. For example, if this thing is difficult and their own ability is limited, they will ask others how to achieve it, and they will find more powerful people to help them, rather than make a judgment and give up immediately.
For example, you think this direction has been done by others, there is no need to do it yourself, so you also give up; But another way of thinking is to do the research first, get the data, and use the data to make an analysis, rather than making a decision on whether to do it or not.
Different ways of thinking, is the most essential difference between people and people; The way you always think is the way you believe;
If you want to practice your thinking, here are two highly rated books for product managers: Yu Jun’s Product Methodology and Behind the Scenes Products;
These two books provide a way for product managers to think about problems. After reading them, you can’t help but sigh that you can think like this, the logic can be so clear, and you can have such insight into the world.
Thinking is the soul of the product manager, excellent product managers have their own way of thinking;
For example, how do you document your requirements? A logical thought might go something like this:
1. Collect as much information about requirements as possible
Methods:
1) Talk to the person who brings up the demand to understand the background;
2) Talk to the technology, understand how to implement, pay attention;
3) Discuss with colleagues of other products to understand the historical requirements logic and discuss the requirements plan.
2. Ideas
Methods:
1) Draw a mind map to sort out all information and avoid missing details;
2) Draw a flow chart to figure out what the business process is and which link is affected by this requirement;
3. Document
Methods:
1) First organize the skeleton of the document, outline the main points and main logic;
2) Draw the prototype, consider the page implementation plan, the prototype and the final implementation effect as much as possible;
3) Supplement document details, describe page/interaction/logic details;
4, review
1) Review flow charts and mind maps to see if any of your documentation is missing;
2) With the technology, demand to propose the plan, to see if there are still problems;
3) Check the document format, adjust the format, and optimize the layout;
When faced with a problem, in an organized way of thinking, the thought might go something like this:
1. Communicate with the person who raised the question to find out what the problem is;
2. Find people related to the problem to understand the background of the problem and collect as much information as possible;
3. Clear the background, context and process of the problem;
4. Think about the solution to the problem and how to avoid it in the future;
5, synchronous problem conclusion, reach the standard: after the relevant people see the problem conclusion, can know the cause and effect of the problem;
Standing in multiple perspectives to consider things, the final output of the conclusion, must be the most understandable and standardized, maximally compatible with the perspective of all people;
You don’t know what to learn?
One way to think about it is to sort out the skill tree of the corresponding position first, and then supplement their own weaknesses and enhance their strengths according to the skill tree.
Increase the hacker’s skill tree:
Skill tree for Product Manager:
Like don’t know how to study?
If your way of thinking is to read the same knowledge point several times, you may spend 10 hours; For those who have mastered higher order thinking, it only takes one hour.
For example, they may use the question learning method, first for this knowledge point to put forward all their questions, and on the paper; And then go one by one to find the answer;
They may also use expressive learning, where they find all the relevant content of the subject and map it together. Then look at the mind map and tell others about this knowledge point. When you can tell it out completely and clearly, it shows that you have mastered it.
Higher order thinking, may help you save life, achieve twice the result with half the effort;
Each person’s knowledge and experience will have several stages as follows. You may not realize the importance of the way of thinking until you are ignorant of the mountain; On the slope of enlightenment, it is a long journey to reshape your thinking. It can be hard, because it’s such a counterhuman, counterintuitive thing to do, but when you keep going, and think deeply, and deliberately cultivate your higher order thinking, you keep refreshing yourself;
