In product management and In general one powerful weapon in your kitty is the ability to organise ideas and features in a logical structure. It helps you think better and in a more focussed way
My favourite being (the one I use) the flow of information. It has 3 parts
1: Creation
2: Curation
3: Consumption
You can literally fit hundreds of things into these buckets
Eg : You are at Twitter and you want to improve Twitter
Think creation
– how to get more people to tweet
– how to get people to tweet more
– more ways to tweet
– what apart from tweets
Think curation
– hashtags
– lists
– personalisation
– follow
– organize in replies and threads
– curated bookmarked tweets
– trending
– add metadata to tweets -og tags
Think consumption
– how to view threads
– different devices and surfaces
– read me tweets
– api integrations to send tweets to external providers
– surface og tags,images etc
– tell me why am I seeing this
Sounds pretty simple, because it is. Breaking down into simple structures can help you focus your attention and prevent you from getting overwhelmed
One reply on “Structuring your thoughts: for Product managers”
Good one. That’s a helpful framework.