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
How do you influence without authority?
knowledge support empathy trust
How do you foster trust?
a
