Gannon’s CPO Toolkit: Cross-functional Product Planning & Execution at Scale

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Gannon’s CPO Toolkit: Cross-functional Product Planning & Execution at Scale

Toolkit Setup

Everything you need to build out a toolkit to lead and empower a product team of any size.

Quickstart: Doc set-up and preliminary planning

Before diving into the tools, you’ll need to customize your doc for your team. Here are the steps I recommend going through first:

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Set-up your Product Squads⁠

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Set-up your Planning Teams⁠

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Schedule your Workshop Sessions & Kickoff⁠

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Conduct your planning workshops⁠

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Your PM Toolkit

With your set-up and planning out of the way, you have a set of foundational PM tools at your disposal.

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`Cycle Planning`⁠
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Use this OKR-based approach to plan a high-level roadmap for a seasonal (or quarterly) temporal period (or cadence).

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Playbook⁠

- A walkthrough of my approach to cycle planning using OKRs.

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Planning⁠

- Guide and tools for running cycle planning workshops.

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Key Views⁠

- Review of product OKRs.

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Edits & Updates⁠

- Create your cycle and make edits to your OKRs as needed.

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KR Status Updates⁠

- Team OKR status updates

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`Feature Requests`⁠
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Point this page to stakeholders so they can submit Feature Requests.

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Triage Feature Requests⁠

- Add requests to your roadmap (or not).

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Your Feature Requests⁠

- See all of your feature requests and their status in one place!

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`Roadmap`⁠
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Manage and communicate statuses for all product initiatives across squads. And provide a means for easily generating a Jira Story from each roadmap entry.

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Active Projects⁠

- Provides an up-to-date, holistic view across squads of the status of every initiaitve. Updated on Fridays

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Add OKR Initiatives⁠

- Provides a means of “pulling” in initiatives from Cycle planning into the roadmap;

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Prioritization⁠

- Allows teams to apply a RICE score to their initiatives.

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Launch Cal⁠

- A launch calendar to view recent and upcoming launches

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Team Pages⁠

- View roadmaps for each squad.

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`Release Management`⁠

Used for managing major releases (epics in a coordinated and transparent way)

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Template⁠

- Create a release board for your major initiatives / Epics.

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`Team`⁠

Create and manage your teams here. This toolkit is based around

Product Squads⁠

as the core team, with functional

Planning Teams⁠

as an extension of the squads. Don’t forget that product is a team sport. If you’re not heavily engaging stakeholders you are doing it wrong.

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`Resources`⁠
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A curated set of resources that I’ve found to be invaluable for product managers.

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Books⁠

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Toolkit Setup

Quickstart: Doc set-up and preliminary planning

Your PM Toolkit

⁠Cycle Planning⁠⁠

⁠Feature Requests⁠⁠

⁠Roadmap⁠⁠

⁠Release Management⁠