20 battle-tested templates, frameworks, and tools for Product Managers. Built from 8+ years of shipping products at Lloyds, Dyson, Sony, and Infosys. Download. Use. Ship better products.
Built by Akash Jindal — Technical Product Owner at Lloyds Banking Group's AI Centre of Excellence. Previously shipped AR at Dyson and contributed to the PS5 launch at Sony.
Problem first. Solution second.
The product requirements document I use for every feature I ship. Forces problem-first thinking with built-in scope controls.
Objective prioritisation, honest scoring.
Scoring framework with guardrails that prevent the 3 most common inflation mistakes POs make when prioritising backlogs.
Manage people, not just products.
Power × Interest mapping with communication plan and influence map. Know who to convince first to unblock decisions.
Max 3 actions. Zero excuses.
Sprint retrospective with a max-3-actions constraint, previous sprint accountability check, and team health pulse.
Outcomes, not outputs.
Objective and Key Result tracker with scoring guide, common mistakes section, and the golden rule: KRs measure outcomes, not outputs.
Stories worth reading.
Complete workshop kit: story format, Given/When/Then acceptance criteria, INVEST checklist, story mapping board, DoR and DoD.
One page. Total clarity.
One-page product vision canvas: Target Group, Needs, Product, Business Goals — anchored by a single inspiring vision statement.
Explore before you commit.
Teresa Torres-inspired framework: Outcome → Opportunities → Solutions → Experiments. Prevents jumping to pet solutions.
Explicit trade-offs. No surprises.
Must/Should/Could/Won't prioritisation with validation rules. The Won't Have list prevents scope creep conversations.
People hire products for a job.
Jobs To Be Done canvas breaking every job into functional, emotional, and social layers. With switching triggers and hiring criteria.
Track what matters.
North Star + AARRR pirate metrics framework. Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, Referral — with the right KPIs for each.
Find the white space.
Market overview, feature comparison matrix, 2×2 positioning map, and strategic implications. Analysis that leads to action.
Launch without chaos.
20-item go-to-market checklist across 4 phases: Pre-Launch, Launch Week, Launch Day, Post-Launch. Never miss a launch step again.
Test with intention.
Structured hypothesis template: Change → Segment → Outcome → Rationale. With decision framework for ship/revert/stop.
Pitch any idea in one page.
Problem (3 sentences), Evidence (3 data points), Proposal (3 sentences), Metrics (2), Risks (2). For when a full PRD is overkill.
60 minutes. No more.
Facilitator guide with strict 60-minute time-box, capacity formula, and 5 anti-patterns to watch for during planning.
Right message, right person, right time.
Stakeholder × Channel × Frequency matrix with escalation protocol. Different stakeholders need different things.
Priority, not false precision.
Priority-based roadmap replacing Gantt charts. Now = committed, Next = planned, Later = exploring. Honest about confidence.
Never lose context again.
Track every product decision with context, options considered, rationale, and review triggers. Institutional memory for your team.
20 stories. Zero blanks.
STAR story bank (10 competencies × 2 stories), CIRCLES framework for product cases, estimation framework, and interviewer questions.
These aren't textbook frameworks. They're the tools I reach for when facing real decisions — in sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, product discovery, and launch weeks.
RICE, MoSCoW, and the Opportunity Solution Tree give you a defensible, data-backed answer when everyone has an opinion on what to build next.
The Stakeholder Canvas and Comms Plan template cover the meetings, escalations, and relationships that don't appear on any roadmap.
User Story Kit, JTBD Canvas, and Product Vision Board force the discipline of understanding the problem before designing the solution.
The GTM Checklist, Sprint Planning Guide, and Decision Log cover the execution layer — launch prep, team ceremonies, and audit trails.
North Star metrics, AARRR pirate metrics, and A/B test hypothesis templates help you define success before you start building.
The 1-Page Brief and Now/Next/Later Roadmap replace 30-slide decks with one page of honest, confidence-weighted thinking.
20 templates. Completely free. No email required.