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Product Manager's Drafting Table

This tool give product managers structured tools to keep track of their own product management processes. Whether it's talking to customers, keeping track of ideas, prioritizing, or deciding what you should do next, this doc can help.

This doc is best used at the individual scrum team level or for a single project, where the Product Manager is the owner of the doc, but developers and designers have access to see how projects are shaping up.

Hope this can be a useful tool for you!

Ross Chehayeb

Sections

The

Board⁠

gives you a kanban view of the entire PM process from problem validation, to solution validation, to implementation and iteration.

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Interviews⁠

and

Usability Tests⁠

give you structured inputs for conducting customer interviews or usability tests. It's great to let the rest of your team see this info.

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Initiative (Problem)⁠

and

Epic (Solution)⁠

provide templates for recording documentation that you can distribute to the team and other stakeholders. A

Slides⁠

section is included with a Google Slide embedded that contains templates to summarize the same information in slide format.

The

Story Map⁠

provides space to document a user journey through a flow that you are proposing to build. This is a great tool to make sure you account for every piece of development needed to enable a specific flow.

The

Story List⁠

provides a

table⁠

to keep track of all ideas, whether small features or epics. You can set Priority groupings, as well as calculate ROI.

Prioritization⁠

, there are two different views of the

Story List⁠

table. The first is focused on

Priority groupings⁠

when you need a non-scientific prioritization method early on in the problem validation phase. The

ROI table⁠

gives you a more refined view that takes into account the effort vs the benefits. Lastly, embedded is a diagram to help run a prioritization exercise with stakeholders.

Finally, the

Story⁠

section provides a template for actually writing tickets to go into your project management system. The tickets have markdown formatting to easily copy/paste them into Jira.

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