Product Strategy
Discipline of learning about user's needs & thought process by studying how they perform tasks, observing interactions with product or other data-driven strategies
What is User Research?
A high-level strategic document that is created and maintained to communicate the strategic vision & objectives of a product
What is a Roadmap?
In scrum agile, it describes the wide ranging requirements that must be met in order for a story to be considered complete
What is Definition of Done?
A step-by-step guideline for completing a project
What is a Method of Procedure?
A one-page summary describing the high-level strategy needed to get a product successfully to market
What is a Business Model Canvas?
In scrum agile, it describes the requirements that must be met in order for a story to move from the backlog to development
What is Definition of Ready?
A set of five user-behavior metrics that businesses should be tracking
What is the AARRR framework - Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral & Revenue?
A plan with a series of activities that has a defined outcome and fixed start & end date
What is a Project?
Identifying underlying needs and feelings of customer, by viewing things from their perspective
What is Customer Empathy?
The purpose of this activity is to ensure next few sprints worth of stories are prepared for sprint planning
What is backlog grooming?
The product is technically complete and ready for customers to use
What is Product Release Ready?
This individual typically owns budget, delivery, resources, capacity, problem resolution & status updates
What is a Project Manager?
A high-level goal or plan for a product which sits on the top of the strategic hierarchy on the product roadmap
What is a Theme?
A test typically conducted by a product manager when development is near complete
What is an alpha test?
What is Product Launch Ready?
An organizational function that oversees a group of individual projects linked together through shared goals or areas
What is Program Management?
It is where high-level objectives and goals are defined first, and used to inform the product vision and roadmap
What is Top-Down Product Strategy?
A prioritization framework used to help prioritize features based on their expected value return
What is Buy-a-Feature?
A meeting held after a product ships to discuss what happened during the product and release process, with goal to improve things
What is a Retrospective?
Type of bar chart that graphically illustrates a schedule for planning, coordinating and tracking specific tasks relates to a single project
What is a Gantt chart?