New to product: Practise · Core
Get feedback on your practice work
Practice only improves with feedback. Ask people who do the job to review your work against what good looks like, then change something.
About 3-5 hoursEvergreenLast reviewed 9 November 2026
Who this applies to
- Skills it builds
- Communication and influence
- PM types
- All
- Product types
- All
- Starting points
- Exploring product management
- Ways of working
- All
- Experience
- Beginner (under 1 year)
- Size of organisation
- All
Steps
- Choose the criteria you want feedback on, using a published framework as a guide. The government product manager skills in the sources are a good start: for example user focus, evidence, prioritisation and communication.
- Ask two product managers or colleagues you met earlier to read your case study and answer three questions: what is strongest, what is weakest or unclear, and what would you expect to see next.
- Offer to return the favour, and keep the request small: fifteen minutes of reading and a short reply.
- Listen without defending. Write down what you heard in their words, then decide what to change and what to keep, with a reason for each.
- Make at least one visible change and record it as a 'before and after'.
- Thank them and tell them what you changed.
Tool examples
- Notion
- Keep a table of feedback, what you decided and why.
Definition of done
- Feedback from two people on stated criteria
- At least one visible change made
- Thank-yous sent
Common pitfalls
- Asking 'what do you think?' with no focus
- Arguing with the feedback
- Collecting feedback and changing nothing