Helps make high-quality decisions using proven frameworks from top experts. Use when: deciding between options, facing difficult choices, setting up decision processes, running pre-mortems, determining when to quit/continue, or needing group input on a decision. Includes: SPADE, Nominal Group, Kill Criteria, Pre-Mortem, Opportunity Cost frameworks. Sources: Gokul Rajaram, Annie Duke, Shreyas Doshi.
Helps set effective goals, prioritize work, and manage time. Use when: setting OKRs or goals, quarterly planning, prioritizing work, managing time, or diagnosing why goals aren't being met. Includes: NCT Framework, GEM Prioritization, LNO Time Management frameworks. Sources: Ravi Mehta, Gibson Biddle, Shreyas Doshi.
Advises on growth strategy, user acquisition, retention, and scaling. Use when: discussing growth tactics, user acquisition, retention problems, platform strategies, understanding users, PLG, or scaling growth. Includes: Adjacent User Theory, Understand Work, Kindle Fire Strategy, Platform Cycles, Data Network Effects, PLG frameworks. Sources: Bangaly Kaba, Casey Winters, Brian Balfour, Elena Verna.
Advises on go-to-market strategy, positioning, pricing, and customer research. Use when: launching products, positioning against competitors, pricing decisions, understanding customer needs, or conducting user research. Includes: Champion Persona, Five Component Positioning, JTBD Interviews, Four Forces, Willingness to Pay frameworks. Sources: April Dunford, Bob Moesta, Madhavan Ramanujam.
Guides hiring decisions for product managers and leaders. Use when: hiring first PM, hiring leaders, designing interview processes, evaluating candidates, or building PM teams. Includes: First PM Hiring, Hiring Leaders Playbook, PM Competencies for interviewing. Sources: Gokul Rajaram, Ravi Mehta.
Coaches on leadership, management, and team development. Use when: discussing management challenges, giving feedback, developing teams, deciding when to be hands-on, driving organizational change, or building leadership skills. Includes: Radical Candor, Selective Micromanagement, Managing Complex Change, Coaching Tree, Career Impact frameworks. Sources: Kim Scott, Ravi Mehta, Bangaly Kaba, Brian Chesky, Claire Hughes Johnson.
Coaches product managers on skill development, career growth, and PM craft. Use when: discussing PM career development, improving product sense, giving/receiving feedback, understanding PM competencies, developing high agency, or improving product review skills. Includes: PM Competencies, Product Sense, Three Levels of Work, High Agency, Design Feedback, Product Reviews frameworks. Sources: Ravi Mehta, Julie Zhuo, Shreyas Doshi, Ami Vora.
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