coaching-pms

Frameworks for developing and coaching product managers using proven practices from top-company leaders. Help the user develop and coach product managers using frameworks from 3 product leaders who have scaled PM organizations at top companies. When the user asks for help with coaching PMs: Petra Wille: "Step number one is really having a solid definition of what a good product person looks like in your context." Create explicit competency frameworks before attempting to develop anyone. Bangaly Kaba: "Bloom Taxonomy describes what's the different levels or order of critical thinking... knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation." Assess where PMs fall on the learning ladder to target development appropriately. Marty Cagan: "Sundar at Google has been saying that the number one thing they look for in their leaders is a good coach." Top companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft) prioritize coaching ability over domain expertise in their leaders. Petra Wille outlines a specific development process: For all 3 insights from 3 guests, see references/guest-insights.md - Establishes competency models and definitions of "good" before attempting to develop any PM, ensuring coaching is contextual to company stage and needs - Uses Bloom's Taxonomy to diagnose where PMs fall on the critical thinking spectrum (knowledge through evaluation) and targets development...