Product Management Productivity Webinar

Just a reminder that I will be holding a Webinar on Product Management Productivity. Hope you can join us!

Date: Friday, January 25, 2008

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST

Overview:How to get twice as much done in half the time.

As a Product Manager, you will always have far more work than you can possibly accomplish. Between thinking strategically and driving things related to your products from a high level to executing the day-to-day tactical work required for product success, you will have a full list of to-do items and plenty of requests that go unfulfilled. This webinar will show you strategies and tactics for being more productive, with the goal of increasing your output and freeing up your time for high-level tasks, while at the same time reducing your overall stress level.

To register go to:http://www.aipmm.com/html/events/webinar.php

Product Management Productivity Webinar

I'll be giving a Webinar next Wednesday October 10th called "PM Productivity: How to get twice as much done in half the time"

Here's an overview (link below to sign up):

As a Product Manager, you will always have far more work than you can possibly accomplish. Between thinking strategically and driving things related to your products from a high level to executing the day-to-day tactical work required for product success, you will have a full list of to-do items and plenty of requests that go unfulfilled. This webinar will show you strategies and tactics for being more productive, with the goal of increasing your output and freeing up your time for high-level tasks, while at the same time reducing your overall stress level.

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Product Management Productivity Tip #3: Master Meetings

How to Reduce Time in Meetings

Few things can boost your productivity more than cutting down on the amount of time you spend in meetings. If you want to buy yourself a few extra minutes (or hours) each day to work on important priorities this is an area to focus on.

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Make the meetings that you run be 30 minutes rather than one hour whenever possible. You would be surprised how efficient everyone becomes when they know they have to get through the agenda but have less time.
2. Insist that people take irrelevant, off-topic or non-group items offline to talk about after the meeting. Don’t allow them to waste everyone’s time discussing something that is not relevant to everyone else during the meeting.
3. Take notes during the meeting on your laptop and keep a running list of decisions and action items. Mail this out before you leave the meeting room if at all possible.
4. If there is a meeting with a large number of items to cover that don’t need your involvement ask if the group minds if they cover your items first so that you can leave the meeting earlier.
5. State and get agreement for the rules for meetings you run and ones you participate in. Let everyone know that there is a five minute grace period maximum. If people are late publicly humiliate them. Or better yet, assign them some action items. :-)
6. Bring donuts to morning meetings – you’ll be surprised how many people show up on time in order to get their favorite kind. This is especially good for meetings with your engineers.

If you follow all of these guidelines and make a point of being diligent about it you will likely free up several hours during your week. This may be just what you need in order to be able to spend time thinking strategically or focus on being more of a leader in your role.