Frameworks for Product Managers

Picking the right framework:

Consider your needs

1. Convincing yourself

2. Convincing others

3. Urgency 

Framework selection tips:

• Start cheap and fast. Take a product mindset to your toolset. Understand what you're trying to achieve then test, reflect and iterate.

Different frameworks support different needs:

• Strategy formulation

• Goals and Initiatives

• Roadmaps and Backlogs

• Sprints and Launch

• Post Launch

• End-to-end variations and sequences of the above.

How do you decide what to work on? This is prioritisation in a nutshell. Your decisions are guided by many things: stage of product, external pressures, objectives, progress measures

• Prioritisation is never completed in isolation. 

• Prioritisation occurs at different levels of the org

• Prioritisation is not set and forget

Stay tuned for more:

• Cost of Delay

• Story mapping

• The MoSCoW method

• Opportunity scoring

• Product tree

• Buy a feature

• Weighted Scoring Prioritization

• ICE Scoring

• Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)

• 5 Why's

• 5W's & H

• Design Thinking

• Jobs to be done

Strategy is your short description of your plan, with 3 to 5 concrete investments that, if you get right, will bring you closer to winning (i.e. achieving your goals/vision). The essential elements are where you are going (and how to measure when you get there) and your current plan. Time horizons typically differ at the team, product and org levels.

I will 

• GROW-IT

• GlEe (Gibson Biddle)

• The product stack (Ravi Metha)

• Amazon Method

• SWOT Analysis

• Eisenhower Matrix

• Porter's 5 Forces

• Lean Startup (build, measure, learn)