 Prada portfolio has become immensely important recently for both aspiring product manager and senior product managers because frequently it's been asked during a job interview, hey show me a product portfolio and it's also a great way for senior product managers to demonstrate your achievement and offer yourself to a director level position. But the biggest problem regarding product portfolio is that there is no set standard of creating a product portfolio and people spending lots of time making those. Once you finish a product portfolio you don't know if it's good or not. So basically wasting your lots of time to create one without getting the best outcome. In this video I'm going to share with you top five free tools so you're able to create your product portfolio in the matter of a few days and it's going to impress the hiring manager and then do the next dream product manager job. I'm also going to give you lots of examples throughout the entire video and make sure to stay until the end of this video where I share with you 13 different kind of projects you can work on to create your outstanding product portfolio. Hey guys this is Dr. Nancy Lee, a director product and featured in Forbes. I've helped hundreds of people land their dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startups and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you're interested in product management course please go to PMXSRSIO to learn more. To learn the most effective way to become a product manager, subscribe channel turn the bell button to notify every time I turn on your video every Wednesday. If you like a free tips we provide today make sure to hit the like button and tell time group. This is the only way you can algorithm will recognize me. First of all let's cover the basics of what is a product portfolio, how to create a product portfolio, what are three different types of product portfolios out there. Product portfolio is different depends on different type of scenarios and how to create those is also very different based on the outcome of your product portfolio. For example if you are aspiring Prime Manager, entry-level product manager, your portfolio's main purpose is to gain experience and demonstrate your transfer skills for you to break into product management and then your very first product manager job. When you create this kind of product portfolio in the highlights and to a product management life cycle which I'm going to cover in this video right here. For experienced product manager the way you create a product portfolio is by demonstrating the outcome and the achievement of your product. It's likely you might have managed a portfolio product in the past and you really need to highlight the three phases part of the launch process and what kind of impact you creating in each type of product launch phases. The third type of product portfolio is for product management interview and those product portfolio are designed for people to show the soft process of creating a new product or improving an existing product or solve a problem for the company that interviewing for. For example one of student interviewing for TikTok she created a product portfolio for TikTok that lands her a dream job as a creator senior PM for TikTok. For the third type of portfolio given you have limited time to present in an interview it's important to continue prioritize the problem and create the best solution. I'm going to create the separate video and talk about three different kind of product portfolio and how to create them in details. You should subscribe to the channel so you can notify once I upload this next video and once available I'm gonna put it right here on top of the link. In my last video I talked about how to use product portfolio to nail your next product manager job and interviews. You can look at this video right here where I give you different examples of using product portfolio and key three elements inside a product portfolio. And today let me share with you the top five tools that you can use to build your product portfolio fast. The number one tool I recommend is VIXX. VIXX is a popular and free tool for anybody to host their website for free unless you want to pay for premium to change your domain name but for product portfolio purpose you can definitely use it for free. And once you go to VIXX it has so many different kind of template and style you can use and I frequently use the favorite style which is right here. I'm also going to link my favorite template in the description of this video as well. What you need to do is you should upload your product portfolio hosted into different sessions of VIXX and here's an example let me show you how I use VIXX. On VIXX.com you can choose product portfolio and there's so many different kind of portfolio template you can create and select your favorite one and for example I select this one and there are existing template you can just plug in and drop in your challenges customer persona use a journey map and add any sessions you want any different elements it's extremely easy to plug in play and you can do the same. For example this is one more students inside PMX characters her portfolio built on top of VIXX.com and it's very nice layout with different sections and customer challenges it's extremely beautiful you can do the same. The second free tool to host your product portfolio is PowerPoint sounds very simple hey just you guys don't know how to use it first of all PowerPoint is being used until our day-to-day life and you can put your customer persona on PowerPoint you can do market research compare different product on PowerPoint it is a very great tool for you to demonstrate your transfer skills and how you solve problems for the company using PowerPoint. If you don't know what kind of side project you work on so they can put on your product portfolio should go to this website to download the 13 different kind of side project it's going to add value to your product portfolio and improve your interview performance as well I'm also going to link it in the description of this video. The third free tool for product portfolio is Figma that is used for designing your MAP. Figma is one of my favorite tool my website was designed through Figma it can be used to design your very beautiful MAP and so many of our students is using Figma to design their MAP and download the picture from Figma and put it into VIX at the website so that you have the end-to-end examples of your product portfolio. The fourth free tool is Mirror for Systems Design. Mirror is one of the tools that blew up during the crazy like quarantine period because everyone needs to use the remote interview experience and using some wide-boarding tools to show each other their ideas and we actually use Mirror for system design when we teach students inside a parliamentary accelerator and Mirror is also frequently used to design an engineering architecture diagram it has so flexible you can drag and drop different kind of the tools to create very flexible system design diagram best part it is free. The fifth free tool for product portfolio is Asana and lots of you guys asked me this question hey Nancy what is a master tool for product managers you need to know Jira however Jira is expensive and is an enterprise product and however there's lots of free tools that consumers like us can use that can replace Jira in our day-to-day life as well and the ones I really like is Asana or Trottle and those are competitors of each other even with my team inside a product manager accelerator we use Asana to manage different kind of process and requirements so as a product manager you need to write Jira stories use the stories and the requirements you probably put it into Jira boards but you can do the same kind of function by putting them inside of Asana board and then all your requirement stories can be dragged into in-process done and all of this can be used to demonstrate your capabilities of writing requirements and knowing the Kanban board the Jira agile methodology that being used as a product manager if you don't know how to write product requirement you must check out this video right here where I talk about five different kind of product requirements and describe all different five requirements with specific examples I want all of you guys to go to this video and study and check it out once you write your requirement you can also make it very simple you can just copy paste to vix.com which is the first tool I just mentioned it's going to make your life much easier you can also directly do screenshot of your Asana or Trottle board put on vix as well a lot of you guys without product management experience doesn't know where to get started how to find the side project and what kind of side project is actually very valuable to gain product management experience so in that case I've created a cheat sheet where I show you this 13 different kind of project you can work on to add value to a product portfolio and gain product management experience for your upcoming product manager job hunting process should go to this website and download all the 13 different kind of project you can work on to immediately use it to land your first product manager job make sure to go to this playlist where I share with you how to become a product manager with no experience but using all the free strategies I shared with you today like comment and subscribe to my channel and share this video with any aspiring product managers this is Dr. Nancy Lee from PMExcelerator.L, see you soon