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
- Why Google Picks the Hardest Problems Instead of Assigning Solutions
- Parallel Exploration: Letting Multiple Teams Race the Same Problem
Organizational Design for Technical Products
- Tech Leads and Tech Lead Managers: Keeping Leadership Technical
- Group Product Managers: Strategy and Coaching Combined
Discovery and Hiring as Ongoing Practices
- Continuous Discovery: Dogfooding and Beta Testing at Every Scale
- The PM Hiring Bar: Would They Found a Company?