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Managing Product Development Chaos with Jira Software and Confluence
The document discusses managing product development chaos using Jira Software and Confluence, emphasizing the importance of clarity, efficiency, and visibility among stakeholders. It outlines the roles of different team members and executives, the challenges they face, and how Jira can help streamline product development with organized structures and answers to key questions. Overall, it highlights the benefits of using Jira to reduce confusion and improve collaboration across teams.
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Introduction to managing product development and the role of the Product Manager.
Key steps in product development including planning, executing, testing, and measuring, and stakeholder needs for clarity, efficiency, and visibility.
Identifying challenges such as information overload, endless meetings, and asking if chaos is the only way to manage.
Jira Software enhances clarity, efficiency, and visibility in product management through organized workflows and backlog management.
Pros and cons of Jira Software, emphasizing its capabilities to streamline workflows, improve transparency, and reduce prep work.User feedback on Jira's effectiveness and a comparison of the situation before and after its implementation.
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- 1. Managing Product Development Chaoswith Jira Software and Confluence RONALD LAI | PRODUCT MANAGER | STEALTH STARTUP | LAIRONALD@GMAIL.COM
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- 3. Product Development Steps PlanExecute Test Measure Requirements ready to be broken down Tickets reviewed and merged to master Verified end-end against a test plan Determine if feature achieved success
- 4. Stakeholders Team Members Focus onclarity Team members includes engineering, design, and quality assurance. Questions asked include: • Why is it important? • Where do I focus? • What is the solution?
- 5. Stakeholders Focus onefficiency Cross-functional includes product marketing, support, sales, international and other product teams. Questions asked include: • Why is it important? • What is the status? • When will it be delivered? Cross-Functional
- 6. Stakeholders Executives Focus on visibility Executivesinclude Head of Product, Head of Engineering, and General Managers. Questions asked include: • Why is it important? • What are the priorities? • What are the results?
- 7. Needs of Stakeholders EfficiencyVisibilityClarity Cross-functional ExecutivesTeam members
- 8. Information Overload Endless Meetings SlowComputers Presentations, spreadsheets, and outdated monolithic product requirements documents. 1:1 meetings focused on tribal knowledge, prescriptive status meetings, and nonstop syncs. Lots and lots of tabs open copying and pasting content between emails, docs, tools, and chat.
- 9. Is chaos theonly way?
- 10. Let chaos reign. Thenreign in chaos. ANDY GROVE, FORMER CEO OF INTEL
- 11. We believed itcould be better
- 12. Jira Software drive clarity, efficiency, andvisibility.
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- 14. CLARITY WITH EPICS Providesanswers Focus on blockers Scales elegantly
- 15. How to organize? Why? Whatis the status? Who are the stakeholders? Who is responsible? When?
- 16. How to organize? Whatare the takeaways? What is the work?
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- 18. EFFICIENCY WITH KANBAN Providesanswers Focus on blockers Scales elegantly
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- 22. VISIBILITY WITH BACKLOG Providesanswers Focus on blockers Scales elegantly
- 23. Add a screenshot+ some bullet points (similar to Sq deck)
- 24. Add a screenshot+ some bullet points (similar to Sq deck)
- 25. • Learning curve •Setup time and configuration needed PROS CONS • Focus on resolving blockers • Enables continuous improvements • Represents product development steps • Answers common questions by stakeholders
- 26. I really likethat this takes aspects that were previously implicit and makes them explicit. - Engineering Manager It makes sense and I love it. It makes work easier and everything is transparent for all teams. - Quality & Assurance Epics act as standing sources of truth allowing me to update a single source of truth, rather than making changes to 6-7 linked docs. - Android Engineer It saves me hours of prep work a week. I love being able to see different views without much effort. - Analyst
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- 28. RONALD LAI |PRODUCT MANAGER | STEALTH STARTUP | LAIRONALD@GMAIL.COM Thank you!