Layoffs and budget cuts have left a lot of products without a product manager, projects without a project manager, and practitioners fending for themselves. Even before historic downsizing in the tech industry, Product Management was a challenging role to hire for and retain. The discipline is difficult to define and operates in a constant state of flux. But if you’ve ever worked with a good one, you understand they offer crucial skills for getting things off the ground. They are good at figuring out what to do first, what to do next, and how to get things unstuck. They build alignment, tackle the unknowns, and handle surprises with ease.

Whether at work or in daily life, product management skills are essential. Yet sharpening them doesn’t require technical training. In this collaborative conversation, Product and Growth Consultant and two-time Head of Product Mariclare (MC) Hall will boil product management down to its essential pieces and teach you an approach you can use to professionally and personally embody the spirit of a product manager.

• Define product management.
• Identify opportunities to utilize product management skills in the workplace and everyday life.
• Build skills for implementing product management principles within your own role at work.

During this workshop we will:

• Discuss circumstances in the workplace that may call you to think like a product manager.
• Talk about the core responsibilities of a Product Manager that rarely make it into the job description.
• Identify the skills you need to use to think like a Product Manager and the actions you can take to get there.
• Talk about ways of applying these skills outside of the workplace.
• Have an open discussion, answer any questions, and share takeaways.

Mariclare (MC) Hall is an experienced product leader based in Philadelphia, PA. She’s ushered two software startups and dozens of clients (online retailers, commercial brands, higher ed, cultural organizations, and nonprofits) through complex technical initiatives and major early milestones. MC’s work focuses on creating clarity where definition can be challenging: process creation, user research, roadmap development, and go-to-market planning. Through strategic experimentation and careful documentation, she helps cross-functional teams do their best work.

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