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[Library] Product Managers

Text Blaze Team

Fast structured communications for your product team. The snippets in this folder were created by Eran Arkin, PM@Facebook, former PM@Google Copy this folder customize the snippets to your needs and find new ways to use Text Blaze. This folder uses dynamic dates to insert today's date in various formats and form fields to allow you to customize the snippets when inserting it. Documentation - Time commands: https://blaze.today/commands/time/ - Forms (to turn your snippets into customizable templates): https://blaze.today/guides/forms/. (Pro feature)

Snippets in this folder:

BasicPRD
/prd

PREVIEW

PREVIEW

/prdWill insert

  1. Description: What is it?
  2. Problem: What problem is this solving?
  3. Why: How do we know this is a real problem and worth solving?
  4. Success: How do we know if we’ve solved this problem?
  5. Audience: Who are we building for?
  6. What: Roughly, what does this look like in the product?
  7. How: What is the experiment plan?
  8. When: When does it ship and what are the milestones?

PREVIEW

PREVIEW

/meetingWill insert

Friday, 11-22-24 -

  1. AIs
  2. Discussion Points
  3. Follow ups from last week
  4. FYIs

PREVIEW

PREVIEW

/1o1Will insert

Friday, 11-22-24

  1. How are you?
  2. What do you want to talk about?
  3. Things I want to talk about beyond the standing questions:
  4. Standing questions:
    1. Anything I can help you with?
    2. Any opportunities to improve in terms of product, people, processes, culture?
    3. Any feedback for me?

PREVIEW

PREVIEW

/introqWill insert

11-22-24 Intro 1:1 <> John

Intro

  1. Connect
  2. Some Questions

Questions About the Past

Performance

  1. How has this organization performed in the past? How do people in the organization think it has performed?
  2. How were goals set? Were they insufficiently or overly ambitious?
  3. What behaviors did the goals encourage and discourage?
  4. What happened if goals were not met?

Root Causes

  1. If performance has been good, why has that been the case?
    1. What has been the relative contributions of strategy. structure, systems, talent bases, culture politics?
  2. If performance has been poor, why has that been the case? Do the primary issues reside in the organization's strategy? Its structure? Its technical capabilities? Its culture? Its politics?

History of Change

  1. What efforts have been made to change the organization? What happened?
  2. Who has been instrumental in shaping this organization?

Questions About the Present

Vision and Strategy

  • What is the stated vision and strategy? Is the organization really pursuing that strategy? If not, why not? If so, will the strategy take the organization where it needs to go?

People

  • Who is capable and reliable?
  • Who has influence, and why?

Processes

  • What are the key processes?
  • Are they performing acceptably in quality, reliability, and timeliness? If not, why not?

Land Mines

  • What lurking surprises could detonate and push us off track?

Early Wins

  • In what areas (people, relationships, processes, or products) can I achieve some early wins?
  • What is 1 thing I can do this or next week to help you?

Questions About the Future

Challenges and Opportunities

  1. In what areas is the organization most likely to face stiff challenges in the coming year? What can be done now to prepare for them?
  2. What are the most promising unexploited opportunities? What would need to happen to realize their potential?

Culture

  1. Which elements of the culture should be preserved?
  2. Which elements need to change?

Working Style

  1. What's your working style? Meeting cadence, update style