The Google Product Model: Strategy, Discovery, and Org Design

Understand the specific practices behind Google's product operating model — parallel problem-solving, technical leadership structure, continuous discovery, and PM hiring — and be able to adapt them to your own product team.

3 sections · 6 lessons

Course outline

Product Strategy: Picking the Right Problems

  1. Why Google Picks the Hardest Problems Instead of Assigning Solutions
  2. Parallel Exploration: Letting Multiple Teams Race the Same Problem

Organizational Design for Technical Products

  1. Tech Leads and Tech Lead Managers: Keeping Leadership Technical
  2. Group Product Managers: Strategy and Coaching Combined

Discovery and Hiring as Ongoing Practices

  1. Continuous Discovery: Dogfooding and Beta Testing at Every Scale
  2. The PM Hiring Bar: Would They Found a Company?

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