<h1 id="product-management">Product management<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#product-management"></a></h1>
<h1 id="responsibilities">Responsibilities<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#responsibilities"></a></h1>
<p>Determine what's made, optimising for:</p>
<ul>
<li>User enjoyment</li>
<li>Value</li>
<li>Successful integration</li>
</ul>
<p>Determining resourcing and schedules is the role of a project management, which may or may not be the product manager.</p>
<p>Glue for all of the stakeholders</p>
<p>Research, prototype, development, marketing, business, communication</p>
<p>Leader, partner with everyone on the product team; emotional awareness important</p>
<h1 id="team">Team<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#team"></a></h1>
<p>Core:</p>
<ul>
<li>User experience and architects</li>
<li>Engineering</li>
<li>Quality assurance</li>
<li>Marketing</li>
</ul>
<p>Extended (stakeholder):</p>
<ul>
<li>Research</li>
<li>Finance</li>
<li>Public relations</li>
<li>Legal</li>
<li>Business operations</li>
<li>Business development</li>
<li>Executives/investors</li>
<li>Users</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="process-methodologies">Process methodologies<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#process-methodologies"></a></h1>
<p>From the perspective of product management, the different is where the product definition takes place.</p>
<ul>
<li>Waterfall: requirements defined at the beginning, progress monitored.</li>
<li>Agile: designed and built over a series of sprints.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="lifecycle">Lifecycle<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#lifecycle"></a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Research</li>
<li>Plan</li>
<li>Build</li>
<li>Release</li>
<li>Refine</li>
<li>...or Retire</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="types">Types<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#types"></a></h1>
<p>Many different types:</p>
<ul>
<li>User</li>
<li>Component</li>
<li>Service</li>
<li>Standard</li>
<li>Process</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="research">Research<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#research"></a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Quantitative
<ul>
<li>Lots of data</li>
<li>Rigid Q&#x26;A</li>
<li>Reveals trends</li>
<li>Consider:
<ul>
<li>Survey size</li>
<li>Margin for error</li>
<li>Reliability</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Qualitative
<ul>
<li>In-depth information from a smaller group</li>
<li>Open-ended questions</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Internal/external</li>
</ul>
<p>Form four quadrants.</p>

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