Product Management: Templates For Success to Work Smart Not Hard

Product management can be a complex and challenging role that requires juggling multiple tasks and stakeholders while keeping an eye on the big picture. Fortunately, there are many templates and tools available to help product managers stay organized, focused, and effective.

In this blog post, we'll explore some of the best product management templates and resources available, drawing on insights from Lenny's newsletter, which has become a trusted source of information and inspiration for product managers everywhere (myself included).

Whether you're a seasoned product manager or just starting out in the field, these templates can help you streamline your work, communicate more effectively with your team, and ultimately deliver better products to your customers.

✍️ 1-Pagers / PRDs

  1. Lenny's Personal Favorite 1-Pager template — How he start every project

  2. Kevin Yien’s PRD template (PM at Square) — Love this whole template, particularly the “Non-Goals” section, and the step-by-step flow

  3. Asana’s project brief template — Also love this whole template, particularly the problem statement framework

  4. Intercom’s story template — Love the simplicity, while still having everything you need to get started

  5. Product Hunt’s PRD template — Love the way it begins (Who, Why, What), though a bit long

  6. Adam Waxman’s PRD template (Design at SeatGeek) — Love 1-Pager summary section before it dives deep

  7. Steve Morin’s 1-pager template (EM at Asana) — Love the focus on success criteria and risks

  8. Figma’s PRD template — A super comprehensive plug-and-play template

  9. Adam Thomas’ initiative template — A reminder of how valuable it is to keep these to one page, at least to start

🤔 Strategy

  1. My business strategy template

  2. My team strategy template

  3. V2MOM template by Marc Benioff

  4. Amazon working backwards PR template by Ian McAllister

  5. How to define your product strategy by Gibson Biddle

🤩 Vision

  1. Product Vision Board by Roman Pichler

  2. Geoffrey Moore's positioning framework by Josh Smith

  3. The Ladder of Needs by Catherine (Kit) Ulrich

  4. Building a shared team vision by Google

  5. Product Vision FAQ by Marty Cagan

📢 Go-To-Market

  1. Launch strategy template by Pratik Mehta

  2. Marketing plan template by Michael Taylor

  3. GTM plan template by The Product Folks

👌 Other templates

  1. Roadmap template

  2. Performance review template

  3. Planning timeline template

🤤 Additional goodness

  1. Gokul's S.P.A.D.E. decision-making framework

  2. How we make decisions at Coinbase

  3. The Pyramid Principle

  4. “Jobs to Be Done” framework

  5. Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems

  6. We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

  7. Business strategy concepts

  8. High Output Founders' Library

🙏 A very special thank you to Lenny and these fine folks for sharing many of these templates: Adam, Aman, Dennis, Chris, Philippe, Pratik, Rob, Tato, Satya, Steve, Sree, Vindhya.