Guide for product managers
Expert advice for building lovable products
Kanban board
Establish a continuous flow of work from backlog to done
ROAM board
Categorize the risks in your SAFe program by resolved, owned, accepted, and mitigated work items
SAFe® PI planning
Coordinate delivery across multiple agile teams with four program increment (PI) planning templates
SAFe® PI retrospective
Reflect on your PI planning session and take actionable steps to improve
SAFe® Program board
Kick off your PI planning session with confidence
SAFe® Sprint planning
Help teams in the agile release train (ART) create an achievable sprint plan.
Sprint planning
Visualize the body of work the team will tackle in your next sprint
Sprint retrospective
Structure your meeting discussion, encourage team engagement, and document important action items
Sprint retrospective meeting
Document what went well during the last sprint and how you can improve going forward
User story
Get right to the heart of why a new feature matters to your customers
Business planning
- What is a business model?
- What is customer experience?
- What is the Complete Product Experience (CPE)?
- What is a customer journey map?
- What is product-led growth?
- What are the types of business transformation?
- What is enterprise transformation?
- What is digital transformation?
- What is the role of product management in enterprise transformation?
Product strategy
- What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?
- What is a Minimum Lovable Product (MLP)?
- What is product vision?
- How to set product strategy
- What is product-market fit?
- What is product differentiation?
- How to position your product
- How to price your product
- What are product goals and initiatives?
- How to set product goals
- How to set product initiatives
- What is product value?
- What is value-based product development?
Marketing strategy
- 10Ps marketing matrix
- 2x2 prioritization matrix
- 5 Whys
- Business model
- Customer journey map
- Decision tree
- Fit gap analysis
- Gap analysis
- Lean canvas
- Marketing strategy
- OKRs
- Opportunity canvas
- Porter's 5 forces
- Pricing and packaging research
- Pricing plan chart
- Pricing strategies (Kotler)
- Product positioning
- Product vision
- Segment profile
- SMART goals
- Strategic roadmap
- Strategy mountain
- SWOT analysis
- Value proposition
- VMOST analysis
- Collections: Business model
- Collections: SWOT
- Collections: Objectives and key results (OKR)
- Collections: Product positioning
- Collections: Market positioning
- Collections: Marketing strategy
- Collections: Marketing messaging
Product research
- Approaches table
- Competitive analysis
- Customer empathy map
- Customer interview
- Customer journey map
- Customer research plan
- Opportunity canvas
- Personas
- Problem framing
- Pros and cons
- SWOT analysis
- Target audience
- Collections: Customer research
- Collections: Competitor analysis
- Collections: Marketing competitor analysis
Early-stage thinking and planning
Idea management and prioritization
Marketing ideation
Types of roadmaps
Product roadmap basics
Product roadmap best practices
Marketing roadmaps
Product planning essentials
Managing releases
Defining requirements
Prioritizing features
Marketing plans
- 2023 monthly calendar
- 2024 monthly calendar
- 2x2 prioritization matrix
- Approaches table
- Feature requirement
- Kanban board
- Market requirements document
- Problem statement
- Product requirements document
- Pros and cons
- Release roadmap
- ROAM board
- SAFe® Program board
- Stakeholder analysis
- Stakeholder map
- Timeline diagram
- User story
- User story map
- Collections: Product development process
- Collections: MRD
- Collections: PRD
- Collections: Gantt chart
- Collections: User story
- Collections: User story mapping
- Collections: Feature definition checklist
- Collections: Feature prioritization templates
- Collections: Marketing plan templates
- Collections: Marketing calendar templates
Agile development
- Common product development methodologies
- Common agile development methodologies
- What is agile product management?
- What is agile software development?
- What is waterfall product management?
- What is agile transformation?
- Agile vs. lean
- Agile vs. waterfall
- What is an agile roadmap?
- What is an agile retrospective?
- Best practices of agile development teams
- What is a burndown chart?
- What is issue tracking?
- Introduction to agile metrics
- Agile glossary
Kanban
Scrum
- What is scrum?
- What are scrum roles?
- What is a scrum master?
- What is the role of a product manager in scrum?
- What is a sprint?
- What is a sprint planning meeting?
- What is a daily standup?
- What is a sprint review?
- Product release vs. sprint in scrum
- Themes, epics, stories, and tasks
- How to implement scrum
- How to choose a scrum certification
Product management concepts
- What is a product?
- What is product development?
- What is product management?
- What is portfolio product management?
- What is product operations?
- What are the stages of product development?
- What is the product lifecycle?
- What is a product management maturity model?
- What is product development software?
- How to create internal product documentation
Marketing concepts
Templates
Product roles
Seeking a product job
Marketing roles
- Introduction to marketing
- What are some marketing job titles?
- What is the role of a marketing manager?
- What is the role of a product marketing manager?
- How are marketing teams organized?
- Which tools do marketers use?
- Interview questions for marketing managers
- Typical salary for marketing managers
- How to make a career switch into marketing
Product teams
- How to structure your product development team
- Best practices for managing a product development team
- How to structure your product team meeting
- 15 tips for running effective product team meetings
- Which tools do product managers use?
- Tips for effective collaboration between product managers and engineers
- How do product managers work with other teams?
- Approaches table
- Brainstorming meeting
- Brainstorming session
- Creative brief
- Daily note
- Daily standup meeting
- Marketing calendar
- Meeting agenda
- Meeting notes
- Mind map
- Organizational chart
- Presentation slides
- Process improvement
- Product feature kickoff meeting
- Product operations meeting
- Product strategy meeting
- Pros and cons
- Sprint planning meeting
- Sprint retrospective
- Sprint retrospective meeting
- Sticky note pack
- Timeline diagram
- Workflow diagram
- Collections: Product management meeting
- Collections: Diagrams, flowcharts for product teams
- Collections: Whiteboarding
- Collections: Templates to run product meetings
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