# product management
After you joined a new team as a product manager
You finally joined a new team as a product manager. Congrats! Here, we discuss what you should do as a product manager in the first week, the first 30 days and the first 60 days after you joined the team.
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What is PRD in product management?
In the Internet industry, product requirements documents (PRDs) have been the most important artifact product managers create. PRDs mainly describe why the products/features are needed or not needed and what kind of features should be implemented so that everyone in the team is to be on the same page.
# product management
Why are product managers important?
Most technology giants such as Google and Facebook have talented product managers for successful businesses. Product managers are those who continuously create the valuable products from users' perspective. In the era of smartphones, the product manager's role has become so important, but why?
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Create your product strategy before jumping into roadmap and backlog
Before diving into the nitty-gritty of building your product roadmap or developing new features, your product strategy should be defined to make the right decisions in the ever-changing world. A product strategy is a high-level description of what the business wants to achieve with its product and how to achieve it.
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How to define product requirements from many perspectives
The main role of product managers is to define product requirements and put them into words as a PRD. In this phase, product managers have to take many perspectives into account, otherwise the product requirements need to be changed over and over again during development or even after finishing it, but how?
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6 major skills required for product managers
Effective product managers lead cross-functional teams to create the product customers love. To be like that, product managers must possess several skills. There are six major skills, I believe, required for product managers, not only professional knowledges about engineering, web design, business etc.
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Introduction to product vision with examples
A product team needs to have a clear vision of where to take the product in order to be fully committed. A product vision describes the future state of a product in a long-term and what problems it tries to resolve or what ambitions it tries to fulfill.
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