This document discusses the differences between traditional and lean product management. Traditional product managers focus on determining new features and requirements, while lean product managers focus on discovering customer problems through feedback. Lean product managers run experiments to solve problems, lead implementation of successful experiments, and manage a problem roadmap. The lean approach prioritizes customer needs over internal requirements, uses data from experiments over assumptions, focuses roadmaps on problems not features, and encourages collaboration on ideas.

1. Lean Product
Management
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2. But I do
Agile…
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4. Building is the easy part.
Figuring out what to build and
how to build it is hard.
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5. Voice of the
customer
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7. @lissijean
As a product
manager…
“I’m here to save the day.”
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8. LEARNING
I
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10. 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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11. Focus on
the problem.
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12. Traditional Product Manager Lean Product Manager
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13. Customer problems and needs over
internal requirements
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14. Managing Stakeholders
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15. User
Stories?
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16. Jobs to be done.
When _____ , I want to _____ so I can ______.
motivation expected
outcome
situation
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17. As a user, I want to save items to a wishlist so
that I can buy them later.
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.
User Story
Job Story
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18. Data driven experiments over
preconceived solutions
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19. System 1
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Fast
Automatic
Emotional
Gut instinct
Intuition

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System 1
Fast
Automatic
Emotional
Gut instinct
Intuition
System 2
Slow
Logical
Analytical
Conscious

21. System 1
leads to bad
product decisions.
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3 Types of Bias
Causality Curse of
Knowledge
Anchoring

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The copycat experience.
“We
built
a
mobile
app
before
and
it
was
successful.”

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The copycat experience.
“Everyone
has
a
mobile
app,
we
need
one
too.”

25. @lissijean
You’re the expert.
“The
customers
want
all
the
data
possible.”

26. @lissijean
“All
my
clients
are
asking
for
this.”
What was said vs reality.

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What was said vs reality.What was said vs reality.

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Committing too early to one solution.
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30. Build
Measure
Learn
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31. Build
Measure
Learn
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MVP

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Ugly
Broken
Cheap

33. @lissijean
MVPsmallest amount of effort to learn about your users.

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Subscription
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36. working towards a goal
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38. Product
Roadmaps?
PRODUCT
ROADMAPS
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Customer problem roadmaps over
feature roadmaps

39. Q4 Product Roadmap
Google Maps
Integration
2 months
3 Devs
ROI: High
Mobile
App
Homepage
Redesign
3 months
2 Devs
ROI: Med
1 month
3 Devs
ROI: Med
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41. The Problem Roadmap
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42. Product Roadmap
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45. June July August
Guides
ProBlem Roadmap
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 plan & Build or test more
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46. June July August
Guides
ProBlem Roadmap
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3
Email template update
plan & build or test more
fix database
Content add analytics
Sign Up redesign & add
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47. Idea generation and collaboration over
product mandates
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49. Design
Studios
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51. @lissijean
DO NOT WANT
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52. Customer
problem focused
Technical
problem focused
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53. Customer
problem focused
Technical
problem focused
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54. ego
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55. 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.
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56. Deliver extreme
value to the
customer.
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58. The Lean Product Management
Manifesto
Customer problems and needs over internal requirements
Data driven experiments over preconceived solutions
Customer problem roadmaps over feature roadmaps
Idea generation and collaboration over product mandates
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59. The Lean Product Management
Manifesto
Customer problems and needs over internal requirements
Data driven experiments over preconceived solutions
Customer problem roadmaps over feature roadmaps
Idea generation and collaboration over product mandates
@lissijean
Help, please?

60. Melissa Perri
melissa@produxlabs.com
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@lissijean
Melissa Perri
melissa@produxlabs.com
produxlabs.com
melissaperri.com
@lissijean
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