Product management is the "middleware" connecting strategies, visions, and goals with agile execution. This guide covers how to use Dragonboat for the best practice product management workflow and quarterly product planning.
The Dragonboat workflow covers the key phases of product management as outlined in the following actions:
- Before Product - brainstorm/ strategize / alignment
Define goals using the Strategy module as it helps your product organization connect product goals with broader business objectives.
Collect and evaluate requests/feedback via the Intake Module, as this module serves as your central hub for gathering ideas and requests from customers, sales teams, support tickets, and internal stakeholders.
Integrate with Slack and use "/dragonboat" to create Request from Slack to Dragonboat
and comment back to Slack channels
Define and prioritize objectives and strategize themes using 3D Roadmapping that goes beyond traditional timeline views by letting you visualize your roadmap across multiple dimensions.
- Before Engineering
Organize/prioritize product ideas by Objective, Themes, or Product on the Idea Board or Idea List that give you flexible ways to manage your product backlog.
Idea Board
Idea List
Estimate effort to understand and adjust resources required for each Idea via the Planner Module you translate your plans into realistic execution.
Once your planning is complete, seamlessly push your roadmap items directly to your team's execution tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Github issues, or Shortcut.
- Delivery Phase
See progress automatically pulled from execution systems like Jira, ADO, Github issues or Shortcut.
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Or use the Snapshot Page to track both outcome progress and roadmap progress.
- Launch to Market
Share context and preparation for downstream activities with stakeholders and teams. Create customized reports for various stakeholders with Dashboard/3D Roadmapping report, or Timeline report or Idea List and embed in wiki/Confluence
See the separate article PDLC - Outcome Focused Product Development Life Cycle - Playbook, for full details on cycles, deliverables, and templates.
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