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2021 Year in Review for Product Managers

Copy this template certified by Product School to reflect your last year and share your biggest wins, learnings and challenges.

Why do a year in review?


Reflecting on your career year as PM will give you a comprehensive view of where you are and where you’ve been. Writing down your accomplishments, learnings, and challenges will help you recognize what’s important to you and help you plan your year ahead.

How to use this doc?


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Create a copy of this doc
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and then
Delete fake data
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Write down your wins, learnings, gratitudes and challenges in this page.
Share your favorite books, movies, Tweets, and songs.
Go to
2021 Snapshot
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and reflect on your best moments and achievements.
Make it fun and personal! customize this template with your ideas.
Go to “Share” and hit publish in view mode.
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Wins

What are you most proud of as a PM? What did you and your team achieve?
How hard was it to achieve that accomplishment?
Add your wins
How much did you enjoy it?
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Launched 50 new features
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Hired 4 product designers
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Interviewed 20 clients
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Gratitude


Who do you want to thank? Think about your peers, managers, or friends
Did you have great experiences you’re thankful for?
Who are the amazing people you meet?
Did you join new communities?
Grateful for...
How thankful are you?
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Engineer team, who helped me track and fix 28 bugs
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Lucy, a super talented designer
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The fun PM meetup in L.A
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Shipping 2X more features than last year (!)
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Learnings


What were your biggest learnings?
Did you learn a new skill?
Did you learn anything new about product or design?
Did you learn anything new about people, culture, and talent?
Learnings...
How much did you learn?
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How to write better product PRD
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How to work with a distributed team
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Javascript and more CSS
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Challenges

Did you have any failures you learned from?
A product launch that didn’t work?
Something you were working on that didn’t work?
Add your struggles
Rate
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Working with a team from four different timezones has been challenging
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Hiring top-level engineers is hard in a competitive market
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Launching a product during holidays is hard
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2021 goals

What goals did you set last year?
How much progress have you made?

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Completed
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Incomplete
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66%
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Last year I had
5
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goals, and I completed around
66%
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of them.
Last year's goal
How much progress did you made?
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Make new friends
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Find my passions and get paid for it
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Get 10X better at biking
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Climb 12C again
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Meditate every morning
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2022 goals


What goals are you setting yourself as a PM for next year?
What do you need to start doing to achieve those goals?
Next year goals
Next Steps to achieve this goals
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Launch 20 more features
Do 10 customer interviews
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Spend quality time with good friends
Follow up with good friends at least once per month
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Learn basic data science
Take the 10-week course
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My favorite books, movies, tweets and photos

What were your favorite books, articles, newsletters or blogs?
What shows and movies were your favorite?
What were the top tweets of the year?
Share your favorite photos and write a short description

Best Reads


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Book
Link
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Tweets



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Tweets
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Movies and Shows


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Movie/show
Link
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Photos


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Photo
Short Description
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Camping at Kirby Cove
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Biking in Lake Tahoe
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My Sister’s Wedding
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Spotify’s Top Songs 2021

Go to your Spotify and find Your Top Songs 2021 playlist, click “Share” then “Copy link to playlist”. Paste that link in the table below
Paste your Playlist URL
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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1EUMDoJuT8yJsl?si=8dcc333e8f9e4c86
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