Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) are documents product managers use to achieve several important objectives. They (1) create purposeand context for the teams they work with, allowing key stakeholders to feel heard; and (2) clearly communicate the vision.
Definitely, the methodical approach for a PM is to write a detailed Product Requirements Document (PRD). However, over the last few years, many organizations are moving to Agile methodologies in one way or another, and product managers find themselves writing User Stories more heavily,…
Years ago, I worked in a company that followed a pretty typical waterfall process. Product Managers produced PRDs. (MS Word docs.) Big, multi-page docs that contained sections like “Product Overview”, “Business Objectives”, “Features”, “Personas”, “Use Cases and User Scenarios”, and…
I recently had the opportunity to interview candidates for a PM position on behalf of a company I consulted for.After the initial screening and phone interview, we gave each candidate a home assignment. The ask was simple: Here is what…
Product Requirements Document is one of the main documents a product manager is supposed to deliver. Lack of proper documentation leads to terrible communication between stakeholders and more importantly terrible products. While team structure and product type influences the detailing…
There are a lot of questions that always surround requirements documents: “Who are they for?”, “How do these fit into the bigger picture?”…etc. Although not all product managers tend to use the documents in the exact same manner, their purpose…
Once you get to the “Build It” phase, the previous research and prototyping should give your team a high-level understanding of your product. All companies are different, so some stages of product development can happen simultaneously
As a general rule, I begin drafting the document at the idea stage. I write a title with the name of the service idea / feature, what the idea consists of (1–2 lines) and how I would like to measure…
If you are a Product Manager, chances are that you would be writing PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) regularly. You would be spending a good amount of time thrashing the PRDs out and conceiving them in such a way that it…
Building great Products requires more than just an idea. Product Managers around the world rely on a number of things to ensure that what they build is loved by the customers (or users). They brainstorm, research, iterate and collaborate to…
I recently had the opportunity to interview candidates for a PM position on behalf of a company I consulted for. The deliverables I got, wereÉnot the best. And since these were, on paper, experienced PMs, that led me to believe…
