Product Management Curriculum
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  • Catalyst Product Management Curriculum
  • Facilitator Notes
  • Case Studies
    • Tech for Better
    • Programme Case Studies
      • Discovery Learning Programme
      • Collaborative Digital Training
      • My Best Life
      • Tech vs. Abuse
  • Exercises
    • List of Exercises
      • The Five Whys
      • The Bigger Picture
      • Problem Statement
      • How Might We
      • Mapping
      • Assumptions Table
      • Assumptions to Questions
      • Common Areas
      • User Research Scripting
      • Identifying Key Insights
      • Inspiration
      • Sketching
      • Idea Generation
      • Zippy 8s
      • Solution Sketch
      • Dot Voting
      • User Personas
      • User Stories
      • User Stories Workshop
      • User Journeys
      • User Testing
      • Product Backlog
  • Extra resources
    • Finding a Tech Partner
    • Glossary
    • Supplementary Resources
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  • Required Materials
  • Workflow
  • Example
  • Collaboration
  • Resources
  • Facilitator Notes

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Assumptions Table

This exercise will look at the assumptions a Product Manager is making about their users, the problem area or the product they're making.

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Introduction

Examining the assumptions that a Product Manager is making will encourage them to think about their users' perspectives and how to validate whether these assumptions are true.

Required Materials

Paper and Pen.

Workflow

  1. Create a table with two columns titled 'Assumptions' and 'Validated If'.

  2. In the first column, write down all the assumptions we are making about our users and the product.

  3. In the second column, write down criteria for testing whether this assumption is valid or not. The criteria should be measurable through observation or research.

Example

Assumption

Validated If

Our users want to use a chat room.

There are over 15 posts on the app message board each day.

This workshop can link directly to the Workshop.

Collaboration

Collaboration here most often happens when organisations realise they're making similar assumptions about their users. In particular, we've noticed that understanding access to digitial and what platforms people use are some of the most common assumptions. Through validating these, we validate whether there is a strong need for a digital service.

Resources

Facilitator Notes

Any assumption is worth noting down so encouraging participants to write whatever comes to mind is helpful. Try to get them to think in terms of quanitifiable validators - for example, 60% of users interviewed mentioned this.

This exercise works best when it follows exercises related to or . It also leads into .

Assumptions to Questions
Assumptions Board
Inventory of Assumptions
defining the problem
understanding our users
writing scripts for user research