THE RESOURCE HUB
A little structure.
A clearer next step.
Practical templates, shared language, and learning paths for the work in front of you.
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
Start with a useful blank page.
Each template includes a short fictional example. Open the Markdown files in a text editor or import them into your notes. All six templates and the AI PM starter kit are included in the resource pack.
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Strategy brief
Choose a customer outcome and make your strategic choices visible.
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Opportunity assessment
Separate a customer problem from your preferred solution.
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Prioritization worksheet
Compare opportunities and explain the tradeoffs.
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Outcome roadmap
Make direction, confidence, and commitments understandable.
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Experiment brief
Define what you need to learn before choosing a test.
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Launch readiness & review
Coordinate a release around customer value and a plan to learn.
FOLLOW THE WORK
Three useful ways through the library.
01 / FIND THE RIGHT PROBLEM
Listen. Frame. Choose.
02 / MAKE AN IDEA TESTABLE
Sketch. Test. Decide.
03 / DELIVER AND KEEP LEARNING
Plan. Launch. Learn.
SAME DISCIPLINE. DIFFERENT CONTEXT.
Make the exercise fit your product.
B2B PRODUCTS
Look beyond the buyer.
Separate buyer, administrator, and daily-user needs. Explore implementation effort, adoption across an account, and commercial constraints. A request from one large customer is evidence about that customer, not automatically the whole market.
Example: test whether an administrator can invite a team successfully, then examine whether invited people reach first value.
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Follow the behavior.
Understand the user’s context, first useful action, and reason to return. Keep acquisition, activation, and retained use distinct. Inspect cohorts and avoid treating launch attention as sustained value.
Example: study whether a first-time user completes a useful task and has a reason to repeat it in the relevant time window.
INTERNAL PRODUCTS
Make the work better.
Explore the entire employee workflow, including workarounds, access, support, and handoffs. Measure task success, error reduction, and effort where appropriate. Mandatory use is not proof of satisfaction.
Example: observe a service request from submission to resolution and identify where missing information creates rework.
SHARED LANGUAGE
Know what you mean.
Explain why it matters.
Outcome
An observable change in behavior or results that a team wants to achieve.
Output
A delivered item, such as a feature, document, or release.
Opportunity
A customer problem or unmet need that may be worth addressing.
Hypothesis
A testable explanation or prediction whose uncertainty is explicit.
Discovery
Work to understand problems, opportunities, constraints, and possible solutions.
Validation
Evidence supporting a particular claim; always specify which claim and the limits of the evidence.
Activation
A defined early behavior that indicates a user has begun experiencing meaningful value.
Retention
Continued use or continued customer participation, defined for a cohort and time period.
Guardrail metric
A measure used to detect unacceptable side effects while pursuing an outcome.
Leading indicator
A measure expected to provide an early signal about a later outcome; the relationship needs evidence.
Evaluation set
Examples and expected behavior used to assess an AI system or workflow.
Decision log
A record of choices, rationale, evidence, owners, and conditions for revisiting them.
KEEP EXPLORING
Good questions lead to more learning.
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