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Survival Tools for the Job Hunting Journey
If you do nothing else, journal about others' embarrassing blunders for a dose of humility.
May 31
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Serena Gupta
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Unlocking Success Beyond Traditional Product Roadmap Prioritization Frameworks
Don't focus on single metrics and numbers
May 1
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March 2023
Fake Trust till You Make Trust
By asking for help and offering grace to others
Mar 30
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February 2023
Getting Stakeholder Alignment by Staying Curious
+ Defining higher-level objectives and reflecting on what others value
Feb 28
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January 2023
3 Tips To Foster Camaraderie Over Zoom
(Ask how are you, identify meetings where the purpose is accountability, and carefully use no video)
Jan 6
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November 2022
Losing Energy on Urgent Requests? Uncover Strongly-Held Beliefs.
+ Define your own purpose.
Nov 8, 2022
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October 2022
How to Make a To-Do List That Supercharges Your Productivity
How I write and manage my to-do list and a template for making your own.
Oct 18, 2022
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June 2022
Anchoring New Products on a North Star
Whenever I start on a new product area, I like to share the vision for the product by end-of-year with the team. During my first product experience, I…
Jun 27, 2022
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Serena Gupta
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December 2021
Keeping Zen and Solving Client Requests
As a product manager, I receive lots of client requests. It's overwhelming to receive tens of requests in the middle of eight hours of back-to-back…
Dec 3, 2021
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October 2021
Broadcasting one message over and over and over again
Whenever you make a sensitive decision that impacts many folks, state the decision in a group setting and share a written artifact. When you need to…
Oct 4, 2021
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Serena Gupta
July 2021
Pre-Mortem to Set Up a Product for Success
As a product manager, I like to start every project with a pre-mortem. A pre-mortem is an exercise done to figure out how a project can fail and to work…
Jul 19, 2021
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Serena Gupta
June 2021
What I Wish I Knew Day 1 as a Software Engineer
My first job out of college was working as a software engineer at a HealthTech startup. I learned how websites worked, all the tech acronyms, how to…
Jun 8, 2021
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