Product Management

Continuous discovery materials are valuable because they turn user conversations into a habit rather than a quarterly event. The GitLab and Atlassian handbooks are useful because they show how product organizations document decisions when the audience is larger than one team.

The stack categories worth comparing here:
- research repositories and interview note systems
- roadmap and prioritization tooling
- product analytics and experiment review

Open materials worth opening side by side:
- GitLab product handbook: handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/
One of the best public examples of product work written down in the open.
- Continuous discovery overview: producttalk.org/continuous-discovery/
A durable foundation for teams trying to make research continuous instead of episodic.

Working documents and guides:
- Opportunity solution tree guide: producttalk.org/opportunity-solution-tree/
Still one of the clearest visual frameworks for connecting discovery to roadmap choices.
- Atlassian product management guide: atlassian.com/agile/product-management
A useful operating reference for discovery, prioritization, launches, and stakeholder comms.

Decision memo template:

# Product decision

## Problem
What user problem are we solving, for whom, and what evidence says it is worth solving now?

## Options considered
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C

## Decision
What we are doing, what we are not doing, and why.

## Success review
- leading signal:
- outcome metric:
- review date: