Templates and methods and best practices are everywhere.
Most teams are dealing with a chaotic process that few understand. And yet, every organization is unique—so your planning process should be too. If it’s too complex to understand then it’s simply too complex.
Most organizations need a small number of living documents to guide product innovation and provide consistency in process. Simple one-page slides and spreadsheets result in a nimble planning process.
You don’t need 100 tools; you need only a few. You should be able to define a vision, share a plan, tell a story, and prioritize a backlog.
Steve Johnson from Product Growth Leaders discusses the templates he uses with every product team — from vision canvas to roadmap to problem story and prioritizing with the IDEA method.
About Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is a product success coach focused on removing the chaos from product planning. He uses modern methods to guide product teams from idea to market in only a few weeks. His approach is based on the belief that minimal process and simple templates result in a nimble product team.
Steve is a former instructor and executive at Pragmatic Marketing and the co-creator of the popular QuartzOpen framework. Learn more at http://www.under10consulting.com
About ProductCamp DC
ProductCamp DC is a meetup community of over 740 product professionals that organizes monthly gatherings focused on product-related topics and best practices for designing, building, launching and marketing great products. We host monthly gatherings to connect, learn about leading methods and tools and share the latest techniques and experiences with like-minded product professionals.
ProductCamp DC was created to build our capability to conceive, build, and market great products through an open and collaborative community. Whether you are in a large enterprise, small business, startup, non-profit or government agency, this is the place you want to be to interact with the region's best and brightest product professionals. Get involved and get active!
We inspire modern product professionals to massively improve companies through the better management of their products.
Join us to connect, learn and grow from like-minded product executives and leaders.
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Review market feedback
Conduct problem discovery
Isolate problems and personas
Create product vision canvas
Monitor success metrics
Monitor market feedback
Monitor customer usage
Perform process retrospectives
Engage go-to-market teams
Determine launch activities
Develop readiness plans
Prioritize deliverables
Engage leadership team
Create business deliverables
Define success criteria
Get go-ahead for next steps
Engage technical teams
Describe personas and problems
Define acceptance criteria
Roadmap initiatives or epics
Prioritize deliverables
Formalize acceptance
Communicate status
Minimize interference and change
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