List of topics for Product Management Community of Practice

### Overview
Create a list of topics for the weekly product management community of practice meetings. This is a work in progress. We are currently curating and updating the relevant issues for each topic and will include any resources when it is available.

### Action Items
#### Wishlist of topics

- [ ] Job Search
- [x] Mentoring sessions
- [ ] Interview resources
- [x] Typical company life cycle (for job search)
- [x] How to add Hack for LA experience to your resume
- [x] How to coach members of your team on their resumes
- [x] How to do Reference calls for your team members
- [x] How to support volunteers who need proof of volunteering
- [ ] Different types of product manager roles across industries and functionally
- [ ] Different types of product management software - MSProjects, Monday.com, JIRA, MS Dynamics, Smartsheets, Trello, Aha!, Product Plan, Asana
- [x] Analytics: FullStory, Heap, Mixpanel, Tableau, Snowflake, AppCues, Pendo - Alex
- [x] FREE Software that can be used
- [x] How do you recruit users for civic tech project test users, customer interviews, user testing?
- [x] How do you conduct product discovery or customer development - Ravi
- [x] HIPAA - how to comply, privacy policies
- [x] How to understand product analysis, success metrics etc, how to define areas for improvement - Erika
- [x] Basics of product management
- [x] product management life cycle
- [x] LEAN product development
- [x] Different types of Agile - Iffath
- [x] Prioritization frameworks - Khushboo
- [ ] Scrum certifications
- [x] Pricing strategies? B2B, B2C - Grants/Sponsorships/Funding
- [x] How to make municipal connections, government connections
- [x] Technical coaching to communicate with devs/designers
- [x] Roles/Responsibilities of a product pod (Product, design, devs)
- [x] Personas, User Stories and journeys - Niven
- [x] OKRs
- [x] Soft skills - team management, stakeholder management.
- [ ] Translation & localization
- [ ] Go to Market
- [ ] More drag and drop wireframing tools for PMs (Balsamiq?)

### Resources/Instructions
[PM Project Board Topics & Templates List](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yALmzfZlum2UF6Urpp0ZIIxFh6gJRE5qGDO3kFOJ1Os/edit#gid=0)
[3-Month CoP Meeting Plan](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1112Sx5ukwMY7GRsRorXO5lXPJb1iYpGP3iMcvN0BldA/edit#gid=0)