Lean Product 
Management 
Melissa Perri 
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Voice of the 
customer 
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Define Design Develop Deploy 
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Traditional Product 
Development Cycle
Define Design Develop Deploy 
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Traditional Product 
Development Cycle 
Some customer 
interaction Very little customer 
interaction 
Most customer 
interaction
DO NOT WANT 
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Define Design Develop Deploy 
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Traditional Product 
Development Cycle 
Pivot
There’s a reason 
why they’re called 
assumptions. 
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Risky Business 
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Build 
Measure 
Learn 
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“I’m here to save the day.” 
As a product 
manager…
I 
LEARNING 
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Traditional PM 
• Determine new features and product vision 
• Gather business requirements 
• Get stakeholder buy in 
• Write out specs and user stories for developers 
• Manage Product Roadmaps 
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Focus on 
the problem. 
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Traditional Product Manager Lean Product Manager 
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A Lean PM works towards a goal 
instead of building arbitrarily… 
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Screenshot of the site
team Goal 
Increase Customer Engagement 
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A Lean PM explores problems rather 
than gathering requirements… 
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Managing Stakeholders 
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User 
Stories? 
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Jobs to be done. 
When _____ , I want to _____ so I can ______. 
motivation expected 
outcome 
situation 
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User Story 
As a user, I can save items to a wishlist so that I can 
find buy them later. 
Job Story 
When I find a product I like but I’m not ready to buy 
yet, I want to save the product for later, so I can 
quickly come back and purchase it without 
searching again. 
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problem 
When I am shopping on your 
site, I want to know the 
curator is real so I can trust 
that the product is good. 
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A Lean PM experiments instead of 
building preconceived solutions… 
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PRODUCT 
Product 
ROADMAPS 
Roadmaps? 
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Q4 Product Roadmap 
Google Maps 
Integration 
2 months 
3 Devs 
ROI: High 
Mobile 
App 
Homepage 
Redesign 
3 months 
2 Devs 
ROI: Med 
1 month 
3 Devs 
ROI: Med 
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The Problem Roadmap 
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experiment 
Will customers buy if we 
post an expert’s personal 
message in the feed? 
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A Lean PM involves the whole team instead of 
working alone on PM island… 
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Developer 
Product Manager 
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Saved 
$77,000 
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Saved 
1600 hrs 
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Saved 
1600 hrs 
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(that’s 8 weeks)
Product Manager 
Role and responsibilities: 
• Discover customer problems through constant customer interaction and feedback. 
• Deliver high customer value by running experiments to solve those problems. 
• Lead the implementation of full product solutions for successful experiments, 
incorporating them into our product strategy. 
• Work with developers & stakeholders at all stages of the product lifecycle to 
ideate, experiment, and build. 
• Manage the Problem Roadmap, focusing on your KPIs. 
• Report data and learnings from experiments to the rest of the company. 
Apply Now 
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Deliver extreme 
value to the 
customer. 
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Melissa Perri 
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