product 2022 Flashcards
True or False?
PM duties might include project management, UX prototyping, and even getting coffee for your team.
true
The main goal of a PM is
Helping the customer be awesome
Being able to code is useful for a PM because
All of these reasons. (answer)
You need to be able to speak technobabble and work with engineers
You know how to think in top-design design, bottom-up implementation
You have an intuition about what’s reasonable/not reasonable to do technically in the product
The Product Triangle …
Helps to vision product as the intersection of design, development, and marketing
The Product Development Lifecycle generally follows the sequence of…
Identify, plan, design, develop, launch, assess, repeat
A persona is
a general description of traits that represent one category of customer
True or False?
Facebook and Instagram have many of the same customers, but their internal personas—how they segment the customers and what they care about—are different.
true
The description of a persona should include
Their relevant characteristics and behaviors.
Lifestyle psychographics.
All of these answers. (answer)
Behavioral attributes such as usage patterns.
True or False?
It’s possible to have a persona that is everyone.
false
Importantly in use cases you want to
potentially enable more people to accomplish those use cases.
All of these answers. (answer)
make product decisions to make key use cases easier for your customers.
potentially expand the key use cases your product enables.
True or false?
Product Managers need to be user informed
true
When it comes to DIY (do it yourself) user research there are several biases. How is it possible to overcome them?
Captivate your subject and find people who will actually have a stake in your product
True or false?
User Stories are an effective description of a feature through the eyes of a user.
true
Some key benefits of User Stories in Agile are…
They help the teams to manage workflow and encourage collaborative, creative thinking
JBTD stands for Jobs to Be Done and it refers to …
All of these answers (answer)
A principle in which customers pick goods and services to complete a certain task
A process of getting rid of people
A framework which intends to go beyond what customers are doing to focus on their actual goals
Michael Porter’s Five Forces of Competitiveness include
Suppliers, Buyers, Potential Entrants, Substitutes, Industry Competitors.
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is
The total money spent on marketing divided by the total number of acquired consumers over a period of time.
When analyzing competitors in your industry it’s quite common to see multiple strategies being deployed concurrently with a focus on
Cost Leadership, Differentiation and Focus.
Primary Activities in a company’s value chain include
Sourcing, Production, Distribution, Marketing and Sales, Customer Support.
Support Activities that deliver value to customers include
Procurement, Technology Development, Human Resource Management, Firm Infrastructure.
A simple way to assess margin is
Value Captured – Cost of Creating that Value
Some indicators to determine if the product you’re building has staying power include that technological change
Lowers cost
Enhances differentiation
Gives first-mover advantages
Improves industry structure
Customers in a Blue Ocean Strategy are defined as
Soon-to-be, Refusing, Unexplored
A strategic sequence of questions to assess any blind spots in your idea include questions on
Buyer Utility, Price, Cost, Adoption
A strategic sequence of questions to assess any blind spots in your idea include questions on
Buyer Utility, Price, Cost, Adoption
What is customer development?
It’s a way to see if your customers have a need for your product.
All of these answers. (answer)
It’s an interview/conversation with customers.
It’s a way to validate if your customers are the right target customers.
Which of the following are BAD ideas for customer development?
User testing for any designs.
A chance for customers to give you a wish list.
All of these answers. (answer)
A focus group to get ideas/product vision.
True or False?
Customer development starts with a shift in mindset. Instead of assuming that your ideas and intuitions are correct and embarking on product development, you will be actively trying to poke holes in your ideas, prove yourself wrong, and invalidate your hypotheses.
True
True or False?
Affinity diagrams are used to create demographic segments.
False
True or False?
When starting out a Customer Development practice, you are looking for the average potential customers to explore the broadest reach.
False
Blue sky opportunities are
Building something totally new.
Iteration is
Refining and perfecting a product and making it into something people love.
True or false?
In gathering data, people are generally reliable at self-reporting
false
A sanity check for your data should include
All of these answers. (answer)
Ensure you’re tracking the right metrics.
Ensure the labels are consistent & they’re being reported correctly across all platforms/use cases.
Make sure your tool is working as expected.
The AARRR metrics funnel is comprised of
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Referral
Revenue
The Hook model is a 4-phase behavioral model that can help you get people using a feature more and focuses on
Trigger, Action, Reward, Investment
Qualitative methods to find an Opportunity Hypothesis include
Known issues.
The Kano Model consists of
Missing features, action priorities, basic features, satisfiers.
A Business Model Canvas is a high-level way to look at a business and customers to help you frame your thinking in terms of
Customer Relationships, Key Resources, Key Activities.
All of these answers. (answer)
Key Partnerships, Cost Structure, Revenue Streams.
Customer Segments, Value Propositions, Channels.
True or false?
Using your intuition is a valid method to find an opportunity hypothesis.
true
The milestones for a product market fit strategy are in order composed of
Launch - PMF - Growth - Expansion
The main focus of healthy, sustainable growth in the right areas is
Creating real value for users.
The 4 Step PMF Framework is composed of
Define core product value - Quantify core value - Create thresholds - Roadmap/features to hit thresholds
The questions to ask to discover a commercially viable opportunity are in sequence about:
Buyer utility - Price - Cost - Adoption
What is Customer Development?
A way to validate if the person you think is truly the right customer and seeing if you’re on the right path for them with your product
True or false?
For iterations big or small you need to go do interviews with real customers.
False
Internal validation question can include
Can we design it so that the cost is less than the benefit?
True or False?
You should do internal validation first since it’s fast, and it will let you filter out ideas.
true
True or False?
You can’t do an A/B test with everything because sometimes you end up having to build the entire feature/product to conduct the test.
True
We can use the Kano Model to gauge how critical a feature is because it focuses on
unknown
True or False?
It is feasible to figure out a value/cost score for each opportunity and focus on the highest-scoring opportunities first.
True
Writing a press release ________ product development forces you to explicitly write down your target market, the problem you’re addressing, how you’re solving it, and the key features of the solution.
Before you start
A PRD needs to include:
Links to the latest design mockups
Updates on key decisions
All of these items (answer)
Feature/scope changes
True or False?
It’s a bad idea to use Storytelling in User Scenarios in the PRD.
True
Simple storytelling only needs to include
Setup, Complication, Resolution
You should share the first draft of a PRD to get feedback from
The design lead
Your colleagues
All of these answers (answer)
Your boss
When you’re first sharing the project with the team or the company it’s best to…
Prepare a presentation
The simplest MVP is
A pre-order
A Wizard of Oz MVP
Is where you make the process look automated even though you’re doing it manually.
True or False?
Pre-order, Concierge, Wizard of Oz, and Fake Door MVPs can all be scaled.
False
True or False?
The single most important part of your product, the one that delivers the real value for your customers, is the starting point to define the MVP.
True
True or False?
The delighters as identified on the Kano Model should not be considered in an MVP.
False
A typical design sprint process consists of
Some preparation and then 1 focused goal for each of 4 days, with the final day being devoted to user testing.
True or false?
The results of the design sprint process should not be shared with users outside of the design group, as they will not fully understand the context.
False
True or False?
In UX, we should take into account every possibility of every action the user is likely to take and understanding the user’s expectation at every step of the way.
True
There are two key ways to think about design:
Approach 1: The Customer Adapts
Approach 2: User-Centered Design
True or false?
It’s fair to say that the PM is like the US President and the Lead Designer is like Secretary in the cabinet.
True
A team of designers will typically include
Lead designer
User researcher
Information architecture (IA) designer
Interaction designer
All of these answers (Answer)
Prototyping expert
Visual designer
Usability tester
The PM’s role in the design process is
to make sure the product requirements are being successfully solved by the designs the design team creates and to ensure that they are designs engineering can deliver.
Which of the following is NOT part of the PM’s role day to day?
Provide regular expert opinions on design and engineering.