Product Management

Product Ideas

• a User Problem, an Opportunity or a Solution
  • hasSource https://support.atlassian.com/jira-product-discovery/docs/what-is-an-idea/

• [Product ideas] are fragile. If they were resolved, they would not be ideas, they would be products. It takes determined effort not to be consumed by the problems of a new idea. Problems are easy to articulate and understand, and they take the oxygen. Steve focused on the actual ideas, however partial and unlikely.

  @jony-ive, https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-steve-jobs-memories-10th-anniversary-11633354769

Terminology

• An attribute is used to describe the characteristics or properties of something.
• A feature is often described as a prominent attribute.
• function is what something does.
• Form is the external experience or shape.
• Design involves all the above.
• Meaning involves all the above plus the relationship of the product or service to emotional and psychosocial needs.
• hasSource https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_developing-new-products-and-services/s10-conceptualizing-products-servi.html

Product Goal

• big picture, important
• represent the crucial accomplishments needed to make your vision a reality.

Requirements

• resources: https://www.agilebusiness.org/page/ProjectFramework_15_RequirementsandUserStories

User Stories

Story Maps

• resources: https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/uxdesign/a-complete-guide-to-user-story-mapping-process-tips-advantages-and-use-cases-in-product-management/
• attributedTo Jeff Patton
• p.hasElements (Private)
  • Items are arranged in two dimensions
    • 
    • Backbone. epics/themes are the basis of the map.
    • Stories: arranged in both vertical and horizontal dimensions. User stories are grouped under corresponding epics, describing more specific tasks a user may require. If an epic describes a search phase, it may include stories like basic search, filtering products, advanced search, etc. When stories are prioritized vertically, they can be divided into releases.
  • User Personas
  • Ideas and Nice-to-haves
• hasPro
  • Built-in user journey.
    • although, imagine a 3d visualization overlapping user journeys and their interaction points.

Resources

• https://www.productplan.com/glossary

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Children

1. Analytics
2. Benefit
3. Capability
4. Data Lock-In
5. Desire
6. Feature
7. Feature-Benefit Matrix
8. Opportunity
9. PRD
10. Product Design
11. Session Replay
12. Solution
13. Story Mapping
14. Use Cases
15. User Problem
16. User Stories
17. vendor lock-in

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Backlinks

• User Story (Class)