Define Design Develop Deploy
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Traditional Product
Development Cycle
Some customer
interaction Very little customer
interaction
Most customer
interaction
Traditional PM
• Determine new features and product vision
• Gather business requirements
• Get stakeholder buy in
• Write out specs and user stories for developers
• Manage product roadmaps
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Jobs to be done.
When _____ , I want to _____ so I can ______.
motivation expected
outcome
situation
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User Story
As a user, I can save items to a wishlist so
that I can buy them later.
Job Story
When I find a product I like but I’m not ready to buy
yet, I want to save the product for later, so I can
quickly come back and purchase it without
searching again.
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problem
When I am shopping on your
site, I want to know the expert
is real so I can trust that the
product is good.
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A Lean PM experiments instead of
building preconceived solutions…
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lean Product Manager
Role and responsibilities:
• Discover customer problems through constant customer interaction and
feedback.
• Deliver high customer value by running experiments to solve those problems.
• Lead the implementation of full product solutions for successful experiments,
incorporating them into our product strategy.
• Involve developers & stakeholders during ideation of the product.
• Manage the Problem Roadmap, focusing on your KPIs.
• Report data and lessons from experiments to the rest of the company.
Apply Now
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