Probably spend a lot of time working out who your company's customers are, what problem they want you to solve and how the company is currently performing at doing that. This can be done together with different people, for example the customers themselves, your sales team, your PM team, customer support team, operations, executives, etc. so that you build up a bit of a network internally. This should give you some good background knowledge for developing your product strategy.
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#12How are you a senior PM if this is your first PM role?
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#13How are you a senior PM if this is your first PM role?
senior is the new junior
senior = junior
staff = mid
principal = senior
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#14Love that "senior" PMs need to have exactly zero years experience as PM to be a senior PM.
Founder is ‘PM on steroids’
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#15I maintain a repo of topics for new PMs, plus one-page explanations, in web page format and also as a free ebook. Constructive feedback welcome. https://github.com/sixarm/project-management-guide This guide doesn't tell you what to do; it give you much of the lingo and a bunch of framework choices that you can use, or perhaps that the existing teammates are already using.
This is for Project Management, but I think OP is a Product Manager...
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#16I maintain a repo of topics for new PMs, plus one-page explanations, in web page format and also as a free ebook. Constructive feedback welcome. https://github.com/sixarm/project-management-guide This guide doesn't tell you what to do; it give you much of the lingo and a bunch of framework choices that you can use, or perhaps that the existing teammates are already using.
This is for Project Management, but I think OP is a Product Manager...
whats the difference?
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#17You should clarify what you mean by PM; product and project management are different things. I assume its one of those rather than Programme Management or Prime Minister...
ps. a cheatsheet for a famous general management-onboarding book The First 90 Days; while it doesn't specifically address your question a lot of it will apply:
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#19Ask for sales to give you the same demo they give customers.
Ask the engineering team for a demo.
Ask the founder/execs for a demo.
Ask tech support for a rundown of the most frequent issues.
Each of those will show you what each silo think is important.
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