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A simple template in 11 topics for outlining your 'user manual', or a guide on how are the best interactions with you. Make a copy and fill your answers.

This guide from the NPA Product Kit series explains what product managers need to know about design and development to help their teams collaborate. Apply techniques to cultivate a product culture and better communicate and work with designers and developers.

This guide from the NPA Product Kit series explores how to build capacity while growing your team’s credibility as a driver of business value. Learn useful techniques to scale your team so you can better tackle the challenges ahead.

News product teams need to deal with different areas, priorities and realities in a news organization. This tug of war can be challenging when managing expectations and concerns. Learn how news product professionals can better involve and manage stakeholders while delivering effective results.

News product teams need to deal with different areas, priorities and realities in a news organization. This tug of war can be challenging when managing expectations and concerns. Learn how news product professionals can better involve and manage stakeholders while delivering effective results.

News product teams need to deal with different areas, priorities and realities in a news organization. This tug of war can be challenging when managing expectations and concerns. Learn how news product professionals can better involve and manage stakeholders while delivering effective results.

Mandy Brown explores the importance of building consensus when reaching decisions in a group, although that practice has somewhat dwindled, in her opinion. She explains the process of achieving consensus and how a team can foster that.

The Editor-in-Chief of Axios offers ideas to improve diversity in the newsroom, especially in senior and specialized positions. According to her, the company may need to develop the talent. The author also points out topics around hiring where news leaders could do more.

This tweet links to and contextualizes a document with a template for professionals who have just been laid off. It helps the professional to summarize their skills and abilities, aiming for an audience that has to read it in about 3 seconds.

NPA member and Northwestern University professor Rich Gordon shares reflections from three recent graduates of the Medill School of Journalism's graduate program who specialized in Media Innovation & Content Strategy. The students discuss how studying journalism prepares you for many different career paths and how journalism skills translate outside the field, to roles like product manager, sales, and more.

A spinoff of Lenny's Newsletter, Lenny Rachitsky launched a weekly podcast in June 2022 where he interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts. Listeners come away with concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help them build, launch, and grow their own product and career. In this episode, Rachitsky speaks with Jackie Bavaro, best-selling author of two books about product management (Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the PM Career) with experience at Asana, Google, and Microsoft. The discussion covers product strategy (e.g. components of a strategy, signs that your strategy is off, how to get better, etc) and product career advice (e.g. common early career mistakes, things every PM should do regardless of their level, downsides of being a manager and whether it's possible to stay an individual contributor, etc).

ONA's Executive Director Iriving Washington proposes new frameworks for leaders to help them develop a more equitable mindset that shares power and accountability.

The product professional John Cutler lists 20 aspects that should be followed by people who work with systems.

A concise guide to start adopting the product mentality in a newsroom. Main steps for creating a product team and advice about transitioning from editorial to product.

A concise guide to start adopting the product mentality in a newsroom. Main steps for creating a product team and advice about transitioning from editorial to product.

This guide from NPA's Product Kit presents an overview of newsroom roles and responsibilities and how product fits in. Explore how product professionals can work better in newsrooms.

This guide from NPA's Product Kit presents an overview of newsroom roles and responsibilities and how product fits in. Explore how product professionals can work better in newsrooms.

This guide from NPA's Product Kit presents an overview of newsroom roles and responsibilities and how product fits in. Explore how product professionals can work better in newsrooms.

KP Frahm asked product managers on Twitter to describe what it is that they provide using only one word. He got 250+ responses and wrote an article analyzing/making sense of them. The top three terms for what product managers provide were: 1. Clarity 2. Direction 3. Coherence

This former journalist wasn't planning on moving to product — and then she lost her dream job. Mandy Jenkins writes about her transition from freelancing to Head of Product and what she's learned along the way.

Nigeria Health Watch was the pioneer when it comes to solutions journalism to cover health and the pandemic. Director Vivianne Ihekweazu spoke in this webinar about their learnings and offered tips for newsrooms to incorporate solutions journalism in their reporting.

In this edition of Lenny's Newsletter, Lenny breaks down what he sees as the core jobs and attributes of a successful product manager.

Growth teams are critical to an organization's ability to reach maximum distribution in their respective markets. This step-by-step guide offers an actionable framework for building a successful growth team.

Drawing from research by social scientist and organizational expert Etienne Wenger , this article focuses on how to form an effective community of practice. The author focuses on the intersection of Domain, Community and Practice.

Encouraging developing talent to take on informal leadership of a team or project is a great way to support professional growth of employees. However, new research suggests that these duties can also take a toll on informal leaders’ job satisfaction and energy levels.

Propulsorio is a thorough guide from SembraMedia on the basics of the product role in news organizations. It is divided in 8 chapters, each one very focused on the challenges that news product practitioners face. Learn everything from the role of product managers to UX, media sustainability, how to be a better leader, and more.

A collection of great tips to answer the question: "how should a media manager act?" Hint: focus on the basics of product strategy.

This is a translation of an article by Rich Gordon, where he lists 6 reasons why news organizations need a product-thinking culture. Product thinking is not new in journalism, we just forgot we've always done it.

This article covers the birth of product management and core concepts like the Kanban board, its evolution through various industries and where it falls on the org chart, and what's next for the discipline. Product School, the org whose Medium page this article was published under, has a ton of other free articles and other resources to check out if you want to go further. -Their other Medium posts can be found here: https://medium.com/productschool -Their other free resources — including courses, webinars, events, videos, and more — can be found here: https://productschool.com/free-product-management-resources/

The slides of an introductory class about product thinking for journalism students. In an active approach, it encourages the students to consider the convergence between product and journalistic competences, as well as the general iterative process of product development.

This article is the last in a series about product thinking and saving journalism. In this piece, Rich Gordon lists his 6 reasons why news organizations need a product-thinking culture. Product thinking is not new in journalism, we just forgot we've always done it.

This articles brings tips & tricks on leading a multidisciplinary team. Phil Delbourgo, head of such a team at Vox Media, shares his best practices and field notes.

An audio recording of a panel at the ONA19 National Conferece discussing cross-functional management in newsrooms. To develop effective journalism products there are different 'food groups' involved: editorial, advertising, analytics, engagement, design, marketing, development etc. Newsroom leaders need to understand the different types in order to make product design in journalism work.

A podcast on the importance of product thinking in the newsroom. Three experts talk about the rise of bridge roles, the role of data, analytics and making tough decisions in prioritization and goal-setting.

With 175,000+ subscribers, Lenny's Newsletter claims to be the #1 business newsletter on Substack. In each edition*, creator Lenny Rachitsky writes about topics ranging from product to growth to metrics and more. In this edition, Rachitsky summarizes all he's learned and all the advice he's given to others transitioning into product management roles from other functions (he himself moved from engineering to product at Airbnb). He provides some criteria to consider whether product management is right for you, tips to landing your first PM role, and the skills you'll need to succeed. *Paid subscribers receive 100 posts throughout the year while unpaid subscribers receive one post a month.

The Design Team is a comic from Pablo Stanley. It stars Petunia as main character: she's a designer and intern at a start-up. Every comic is about the challenges she's facing trying to find her place in a new city and work environment. This is the first comic in the series.

The article describes the most important competences of a product manager, according to different researchers and authors. Roosevelt recommends three aspects: communication, time management and empathy.