As a product manager, how to quickly improve your ability?

how to become a high-level learner, so that their ability to quickly improve it? This is a very macro and complex problem. The author tries to combine " Some mathematics study suggestions " and " The limited experience in the work of product manager " to do some thinking for everyone's reference.

Spring Festival Home period, with is high three of the small niece chatted about her study status, learned that her math partial section very serious, full- time test only a score of more than ten points. For the " mathematics " of this highly difficult subject, each class will show a serious cascade of differentiation phenomenon," head " The students are getting close to full marks, and the" tail " students score little poor. The reason, in addition to the objective factors of the difference in talent, in learning methods and skills and other aspects of whether there is a perfect place?

in the work of the same, standing on the same starting line of fresh graduates, the ability to improve the speed of rapid and slow, the gap between each other gradually increased. To put it another way, some people's three years of work experience may be equal to or even more than the other person's ten years of work experience accumulation. The reason, in addition to the work environment, project opportunities and other objective factors, in the personal growth of the subjective attitude and behavior and other aspects of whether there is a difference?

for students, the textbook has learned " knowledge " , but if you just memorize knowledge " The is meaningless, but only " Knowledge " Convert to " ability to solve problems " to get a high score in an exam, and for a workplace employee, the job is to accumulate " Experience " , only these " Experience " convert to corresponding " Ability to work " The can effectively improve its core competitiveness. The difference between people is often caused by the high efficiency of the " ability conversion " .

how to become a high-level learner, so that their ability to quickly improve it? This is a very macro complex problem, and the following I'm just trying to combine " some math learning advice " and " Limited experience in Product manager work " , and some of the thoughts we have made are for your reference.

I. Learning and accumulating " meta-knowledge "

the first piece of advice on math learning is to turn over textbooks and master the most basic theorems and formulas, such as "sine cosine theorem "and" derivation formula ." " and so on, these are " meta-knowledge " . For product managers, it is the basic knowledge points such as design concept and interaction specification, such as " several common navigation methods on the APP side"," Feedback Form " , even some of the most common " Technology Implementation Solutions " .

why focus on mastering " meta-knowledge ", because it is the basis for refining their own ability, as in the case of mathematical questions, the change is the style of questions and known conditions or solve problems, But the same is the study of basic knowledge points.

If the knowledge points are not mastered or even skilled enough, there is no way to solve the problem. This is a very simple truth, but there are still a lot of students who are not good at learning, the knowledge in textbooks are still not aware of the circumstances of the blind to do the problem, often ineffective, or even futile.

The same is true for product managers. In the school does not have a complete counterpart of the professional, there is no systematic theoretical knowledge of learning, many people even just read a few books, understand some concepts, embarked on the product road.

in order to improve their ability, in the work also need to deliberately learn and accumulate product-related " meta-knowledge ." When " meta-knowledge " is plentiful enough, the solution to the problem can be more, the design thinking will be more open, on the contrary, if the " Product meta-knowledge " scarcity, product solutions are likely to be single, or not perfect, even without a clue."

Second, in-depth study based on inquiry

students with poor math scores also have a bad habit of blindly using " stuffed ", which appears to be " done " A lot of topics, but either the browsing test instructions will not be skipped, or to follow the standard answer to copy the process. The efficiency of this learning method is also very low, only the pursuit of " quantity ", and ignore the " quality " .

effective learning methods, should be aimed at the question in-depth exploration, in the inquiry may find that there is still not mastered the " meta-knowledge ", or can be existing solutions to improve the problem, Or summed up the question of the unity of the problem solving law, in any case can deepen the understanding of the answer, which is based on inquiry learning.

do the principle of the product is similar, do not blindly pursue the project experience or the number of functional modules, to learn to seize every point of value, in-depth exploration down. As you delve deeper into the process, you may find a more appropriate product solution, or you may constantly overturn previous judgments, thereby escalating your perceptions, and perhaps stripping out a generic design idea or " product meta-knowledge ", This is used to guide the next product design.

Before I wrote an article "two real product cases triggered by the thinking", is the work encountered in the actual case carried out in-depth inquiry, the function point may be very small, but in-depth thinking, the harvest can be very large.

One of the benefits of inquiry-based learning is that it helps us to develop a long-term, consistent way of thinking from a problem. It not only helps us to have a thorough understanding of the problems and knowledge of our residence, but also improves our ability to solve and respond to new problems.

Third, the exploration process is more important than the conclusion

When it comes to math problems, most students only care about the correct answer. And seldom think about the process of solving the problem, why didn't you think of it? This type of study, which only cares about the conclusion, is easily caught up in a rigid and rigid mode of thinking, and cannot be extrapolate and assimilated. When the types of questions change, or the conditions and solve problems can be replaced, it is likely to be impossible.

Intelligent Learners, will explore the process of solving problems and ideas, will do the corresponding induction and summary, which is also the school teacher asked us to have " wrong notebooks " or " Summary of this " 's intentions. When the process is clear to the chest, the answer is to let its natural things.

As a product manager, as well as in the learning process, when we analyze the competition, or listen to the guidance of the product's predecessors, don't just focus on the design that is ultimately adopted, but also learn to explore why. What is the business context to consider? Is it effective in supporting different usage scenarios?

Similarly, in our own design of product solutions, should not be easy to make any conclusions, but should be in-depth thinking, measurement of the importance of a number of factors of influence, consider the different use of the process under the circumstances, and so on, when the process of exploration of the thin, the conclusion often becomes obvious.

The learning mentality of the inquiry process is universal, for example, when we look at an argumentative article, we may want to think about what kind of material arguments the author uses, what kind of reasoning is used, to make his argument tenable, to persuade people, to read a book.

When we consciously explore the whole process of creation, we can draw on and learn the best way of thinking of the parties, not only the superficial conclusion, but also, when we are the dominant person, we can go through a more comprehensive and thoughtful process of thinking, and come to a more perfect conclusion, Our own ability will have a faster ascension.

iv. Summary

Growth rate is affected by many factors, some are unable to change the objective environment, such as family background, and some are through the efforts can be changed by the objective environment, such as work environment, project experience, and some are based on subjective awareness of individual learning methods and ways of thinking and so on.

If you feel that your ability to ascend is not up to your expectations, stop and think about what you can do differently.

Source: Everyone is a product manager

As a product manager, how to quickly improve your ability?