pm_playbook

Hi, I’m Florian and this is my 🧠 Product Management Playbook

A curated collection of Product Management best practices, templates, frameworks, and real-world projects. Built from hands-on experience across product discovery, delivery, strategy, and stakeholder alignment.

This repository is designed to be practical, actionable, and continuously evolving.

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Purpose of This Repository

Product Management is learned best through real examples, clear thinking, and repeatable tools.

This repository exists to:

• Share battle-tested PM templates and frameworks
• Document best practices across the product lifecycle
• Showcase personal product projects and case studies
• Help junior PMs ramp up faster
• Give experienced PMs reusable assets
• Encourage open collaboration and discussion

Whether you are an Aspiring PM, Product Manager, Product Owner, or Founder, this repo is meant to save you time and sharpen your thinking.

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What You’ll Find Here

🧱 1. Product Management Foundations

• What is product management
• Role of a product manager
• Problem vs solution thinking
• Outcomes vs Output
• Product lifecycle
• Stakeholder management
• Decision making
• Metrics and success
• Product principles
• Common PM mistakes

📄 2. Templates

Reusable templates you can directly apply at work:

🔍 For Discovery:

• Problem statement
• User persona
• User interview guide
• Assumption mapping
• Opportunity solution tree
• Hypothesis statement
• Experiment plan
• Discovery summary

♟️ For Strategy

• Product vision
• Product strategy
• Product principles
• Roadmap
• Prioritization framework

🚀 For Delivery:

• Product
• Backlog refinement
• Sprint goal
• Release plan
• Retrospective

📊 For Metrics

• North star metric
• OKRs
• KPIs
• Experiment metrics

All templates aim to be:

• Simple
• Lightweight
• Outcome-focused

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🗂️ 3. Case studies

• Case study template
• Natural Capital
• SIRVEC

These are not perfect success stories, but honest learning experiences.

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🧩 4. Frameworks

• Discovery
• Decision making
• Prioritization
• Problem framing
• Strategy

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📚 5. Resources

• Articles
• Books
• Communitites
• Courses and certifications
• Podcasts

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🛠️ 6. Tools

• Analytics tools
• Collaboration tools
• Delivery tools
• Discovery tools

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🗂️ Repository Structure

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├── 01-foundations/
├── 02-templates/
│   ├── 01-discovery/
│   ├── 02-strategy/
│   ├── 03-delivery/
│   ├── 04-metrics/
│   └── README.md
├── 03-case-studies/
│   └── README.md
├── 04-frameworks/
│   └── README.md
├── 05-resources/
│   └── README.md
├── 06-tools/
│   └── README.md
└── README.md

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🎯 How to Use This Repo

• Browse topics relevant to your current challenge
• Reuse templates directly in your job or side projects
• Adapt frameworks to your context
• Learn from real-world examples
• Contribute your own improvements

This is not a “one-size-fits-all” playbook — context always matters.

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🤝 Contributions

Contributions are welcome and encouraged 🙌

You can contribute by:

• Improving existing templates
• Adding new frameworks
• Sharing case studies
• Fixing mistakes or clarifying explanations
• Suggesting better ways to explain concepts

How to Contribute

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Open a Pull Request with a clear explanation

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⚠️ Disclaimer

• Content reflects personal experience and opinions
• There is no single correct way to do Product Management
• Frameworks are tools, not rules
• Always adapt to your company, team, and product context

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📌 Who This Is For

• Aspiring Product Managers
• Junior & Mid-level PMs
• Senior PMs looking for reusable tools
• Founders building products
• Anyone curious about product thinking

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⭐ Support

If you find this repository useful:

• Star ⭐ the repo
• Share it with other PMs
• Open discussions or issues
• Contribute back

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🧭 Final Thought

Great Product Managers don’t follow frameworks blindly — they understand problems deeply and choose the right tools intentionally.

Happy building 🚀