Product Management Scenarios Flashcards
How do you manage communication as a PM?
Vertical - Senior leadership
Horizontal - Tech lead, engineers and designers
Strategy and roadmap
How do you prioritize?
User story mapping, RICE, Rev imp/story size
What is your approach towards product strategy?
f(foundation, market, imperative)
What: For, who has, is a , . Unlike, product Vision Target Customer High level diff Goals and metrics (user and Biz) Plan with initiatives
How:
Id key stakeholders
Collect and organize i/p
Build support and evangelize, while being vigilant
How do you go about developing a roadmap?
Define strategy review and manage ideas define user stories align epics with releases Set OKRs to milestones with top-down dev estimates Determine views for stakeholders
What tools do you use as a PM to effectively handle internal processes?
Idea management, Strategy - Aha, Qualtrics Project management - JIRA, Trello Documentation - Confluence, Notion Data - SQL, Excel Communication - Teams, Slack Brainstorming - Mural, Miro, LucidChart
How do you write PRDs? and user stories?
Objectives Release Feature spec UX+Design Analysis Tradeoffs, future scope
INVEST
How do you manage stakeholders?
a
What do you do during Sprint Planning? Retro?
Planning -
Review roadmap
set sprint goals and sprint backlog
dev resources, prior sprint velocity and data
facilitate breaking of stories into tasks
How do you collaborate with engineers and designers?
Engineers - communicate biz requirements clearly
Motivate them by depicting the impact in numbers
Designers - Crucial in the discovery process
include in user interviews
use low fidelity protos to not dictate but converse
How do you incorporate data in each phase of the development cycle?
a
How do you plan Go-to-Market?
Prod market fit for the user segment (VP + underserved needs) Competition Distribution (placement) Pricing strategy Cust support post launch metrics such as CAC
How do you manage releases?
a
How do you conduct customer research?
a
How do you pick the north star metric?
aligns with strategy and objective
How will you present an exciting new feature to the team?
Right after backlog grooming
