Quickstart: Doc set-up and preliminary planning
Before diving into the tools, you’ll need to customize your doc for your team. Here are the steps I recommend going through first:
Turn on the automations in this doc by clicking Doc settings ⚙️ → Automations → Toggle on Your PM Toolkit
With your set-up and planning out of the way, you have a set of foundational PM tools at your disposal.
Use this OKR-based approach to plan a high-level roadmap for a seasonal (or quarterly) temporal period (or cadence).
- A walkthrough of my approach to cycle planning using OKRs. - Guide and tools for running cycle planning workshops. - Review of product OKRs. - Create your cycle and make edits to your OKRs as needed. - Team OKR status updates Point this page to stakeholders so they can submit Feature Requests.
- Add requests to your roadmap (or not). - See all of your feature requests and their status in one place! Manage and communicate statuses for all product initiatives across squads. And provide a means for easily generating a Jira Story from each roadmap entry.
- Provides an up-to-date, holistic view across squads of the status of every initiaitve. Updated on Fridays - Provides a means of “pulling” in initiatives from Cycle planning into the roadmap; - Allows teams to apply a RICE score to their initiatives. - A launch calendar to view recent and upcoming launches - View roadmaps for each squad. Used for managing major releases (epics in a coordinated and transparent way)
- Create a release board for your major initiatives / Epics. Create and manage your teams here. This toolkit is based around as the core team, with functional as an extension of the squads. Don’t forget that product is a team sport. If you’re not heavily engaging stakeholders you are doing it wrong. A curated set of resources that I’ve found to be invaluable for product managers.