Product Project Management Flashcards
What are the steps from company vision to induvidial tasks?
Vision (could be 3 or 5 years) –> Goals (Defined as metrics) –> Initiatives (f.ex. add support for 2 new languages) –> Releases (grouping of functionality and features that are grouped and released at same day) –> Epics –> Stories and requirements.
What is an epic?
A grouping of one or more features or functionality that we want to build.
How many epics will a product team usually build in a quarter?
3 - 5 epics. Of course it depends.
What are exampels of epics?
- Translate app to Spanish
- Implement photo sharing in direct messages
- Allow users to upgrade to pro membership
Do epics always results in a new feature for the user?
No. F.ex. migrate to a new database.
What is a common definition of an epic?
A piece of work that takes more than one sprint to build.
What are the four main areas in an epic spec sheet? And which are usually the main focus of the product manager?
Intro (summary of what the features are for, the why, which metrics you want to improve, early wireframes maybe, MVP vs ideal state, legal requirements), product requirement (the feature must X), design requirements (the designer should be involved here, wireframes could be here), engineering requirements (technology domain).
Product manager usually do 1 and 2.
What is the format of a user story?
As an X, I want to do Y, so that I can Z.
Remember to add acceptance criteria.
What’s the backlog?
Tickets that we plan to do later which we are not working on yet.
What is the typical phrasing for acceptance criteria of a user story?
“Given I am a user who clicked X, I am presented with a pop-up showing Y”. etc…
Sprint planning meeting is also known as…
scoping meeting
What is a story point?
A measure used to estimate the time and effort or difficulty required to complete a story. Could be on a scale from 1 to 5 for example.
What is the team velocity?
The total number of story points completed per sprint.
What’s the only true thing about roadmaps in an agile organization?
They are inaccurate.
What do many project managers do as an alternative to roadmaps.
Prioretize in 3 colums: Near term, mid term, long term.
