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There are a variety of frameworks and techniques that can help product managers manage a product’s development from ideation to launch. An ideal framework will help PMs communicate their vision, collaborate with their team and make data-driven decisions to create a successful product. Here are some of the most common approaches used by product managers today.?
1. Agile: The agile framework encourages iterative development, collaboration and continuous improvement. Product managers who use agile regularly work in short cycles, otherwise known as sprints , in order to release small features or changes frequently. This enables them to get feedback from the market as early and as often as possible.
2. Kanban: The kanban framework helps product managers visualize the work that needs to be done, prioritize tasks and track progress. By using a kanban board, they can see the status of each task, who is working on it and where it falls in the priority order.
3. Roadmapping: Product roadmaps help product managers communicate their long-term vision for a product to both internal and external stakeholders. These roadmaps map out the timelines for the development of new features and the release of product updates. They are often used together with sprint plans to make sure that both strategic and tactical work is being tracked.
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4. Customer Journey Maps: Customer journey maps outline every interaction a customer has with a product, from the awareness stage all the way through to the retention stage. By mapping out the entire customer journey, product managers can better understand how to design the product to create a positive user experience at every stage.
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Here are some of the things I've learned about Agile development practices that have helped my teams stay productive and predictable: 1. One Agile training session isn't enough. I recommend scheduling regular in-person training sessions with your team as a group. It's a great team-building activity! 2. Set high standards for User Stories. Vague user stories are difficult to test and can be tough to story-point. 3.? Stand-ups should be 5 minutes, don't schedule an hour-long meeting! 4. Velocity is a metric the team uses to help plan predictable sprints, not a productivity metric to compare across teams and individuals. Finally, it's difficult to do Agile in a large corporate environment. Sometimes the best we can do is to focus on continuous improvement. Some of the best materials I've found on Agile can be found on LinkedIn Learning. I recommend looking at them!
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2 年Agile frameworks are great for product management - and not just for the dev team. If you aren't running a dev team, I'd suggest keeping it simple - Scrum might be too much overhead, but Kanban could be just right. Customer journey mapping is definitely a key exercise as well. I'd encourage a full CX (customer experience) - from retail/in-person media all the way through product features and capabilities. Any Customer 360 framework helps make sure all the paths and perspectives are covered.
Program Managers , Product Owners along with Engineering play a critical role in the overall Product development roadmap. 1) Alternate days 15 minutes sync up among Product, Program and Engineering manager/leads helps in ensuring that small issues are taken care off before they can blow up 2) An effective Product readiness and Operational readiness strategy ensures that teams stays on track with regards to the end user and post launch monitoring 3) Using roadmap framework ( JIRA / Monday.com or any other roadmap tool conducive to the overall team) for regular updates 4) Depending upon the criticality of the feature, having a bi-weekly ( once every two weeks) leadership meeting helps in ensuring that everyone is on the same page 5) Finally for customer facing products it helps in having an internal employee live testing / test marathon to iron out any kinks before ramping it up for the end users.