Week 2

Question 1

What is the relationship between competence and confidence? What is a way to increase confidence?

Answer 1

The more competent you are the more confident you become. The more confident you are the more competent you become as confidence helps to keep learning skills and improving your knowledge. Writing a brag book with big and small accomplishments is a good way to increase confidence and through it improve your competence.

Question 2

What are the most core copetencies of an excellent product thinker?

Answer 2

A good product thinker excels in the following core competencies:

Customer insight
Product strategy
Feature specifications

Question 3

What are the main requirements for customer insight?

Answer 3

1. Empathize with the user
2. Let data influence your product decisions
3. Appreciate good user design and how it relates with customer experience

Question 4

What are the skills a product thinker needs for creating a great product strategy? What questions can you ask to evaluate if a person is a great product thinker?

Answer 4

1. Capable of understanding what drives business impact and quantify it
2. Are you able to establish a product vision and communicate it effectively
3. Are you able to understand the broad product strategy and go deep when needed
4. Can you establish a good product strategy with trade offs
5. Can you think big

Question 5

What are Feature specifications competencies?

Answer 5

1.are you able to define appropriate level of product feature specifications
2. Are you able to use appropriate technology to solve challenges?

Question 6

What are ways to improve your product thinking?

Answer 6

1.IJS coursework
2.External Content-that forces you to think about product like Lennys newsletter and stratechery blog
3.break down product using IPT framework
4. Wire framing
5. Interviews self
5. Peer
6. Ijs interviews
7. Answer and submit questions support@ipm.com