Introducing the Atlassian Product Discovery handbook! 🙌

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Jira Product Discovery reached more than 10,000 customers recently ❤️‍🔥

To celebrate this milestone we're launching the Atlassian Product Discovery handbook, full of the hard earned lessons we gained while building JPD.

There is a lot of great thought leadership content about product management out there, but we found it's often aspirational and lacking pragmatic, practical ways to get started. So @Axel Sooriah  and I rolled up our sleeves and tried we tried to address these gaps in a handbook. Consider it our gift to the PM community!

👉 Atlassian Product Discovery Handbook 👈

1️⃣ Product management practices and ways of working
2️⃣ Examples of how Atlassian applies these practices within our own teams, especially in the team creating JPD
3️⃣ Practical advice on how to apply these practices using JPD

It's version 1: far from perfect but we think it's got legs. Expect an online version of this handbook soon that we'll keep evolving based on what we learn working with y'all. Comments are welcome, and if you'd like to contribute let us know!

Here's a teaser: the stages of an idea:

[Michael Dohan]

Thanks for putting this together.  We are just getting started with JPD.  This is a nice overview of how to think about using it.

[Pavel Egorkin]

Thanks, Tanguy and the entire team. I really like the direction Atlassian products have taken in recent years

[Chad Walker]

Your team is doing great work. I'm very happy I found Jira Product Discovery. I've never been so organized. 

[Eduardo Oliveira_Mindpro]

@Tanguy Crusson - Awesome handbook and product, we use JPD in a daily basis and it's so easy, flexible and powerful. Keep rockin!

[julvon]

@Tanguy Crusson@Axel Sooriahwoow thanks for the playbook! We are already using JPD for a year and like how it is integrated with JSM for the delivery :)

[Monika Marko]

thank you for sharing this; we are in the process of rolling this out to the org, after having worked with JPD for over a year now, so this will come in handy. 

[Thippanahalli Ranganathaiah]

Thank you so much , it was the need of the hour for me 

[David Holden]

This looks great! At least one of the hyperlinks (page 23) tries to take me to a confluence that I don't have access to (pm-dev.atlassian.net)

[Tim Balzer]

This is a fantastic resource—thank you for sharing! I'm noticing a handful of images that don't match the caption, though. Here are a few captions as reference (not exhaustive):

• A user conversation, transcribed and analyzed in Dovetail
• Research report in Confluence, ready to be distilled into Insights in JPD
• A survey in Pendo, targeting specific customers
• A closer look at our regular CSAT survey
• Conversations in the Jira Product Discovery group

[Tanguy Crusson]

Thanks @Tim Balzer , you're right! We'll fix that 🙏

[Tanguy Crusson]

Hi everyone, it looks like we borked something up when generating the PDF version of this handbook and most of the images in there are wrong... Thank you @Tim Balzer for bringing this to our attention! It's a public holiday in the US today but we'll jump on it to fix it tomorrow. 

In the meantime, you can access an earlier version (but with the right images) here: Jira Product Discovery handbook (beta)

[Stephen_Lugton]

Thanks for this light bedtime reading @Tanguy Crusson 

Some of our product owners (who are more accurately senior business users) have been struggling with technologies other than hand written notes so hopefully this will give them more insights into how the rest of us work!

[Tanguy Crusson]

OK everyone the images in the handbook were fixed, an issue with the editing tool for the last export had thrown all images off for some reason... Thanks a ton for reporting this @Tim Balzer !

[Florian Schmidt]

@Tanguy Crusson Is the pdf from the "real" download page updated or is this in progress?

Link

[Tanguy Crusson]

@Florian Schmidt it is there 👍

[Tommy Légaré]

Good job! Really nice guide! It's great to have all those little examples of usages and practical advises. Thumb's up to all the team!

[David]

Hi, thanks very much for this work.

unfortunately, i think the link is broken. Can't download the book :( 

david

[David]

Sorry, my mistake.

Everything is fine. couldn't download because of  my firewall rules.

thanks

david

[Frode Nilsen]

This is much appreciated :)

But, of course, some questions:

• Regarding the large, medium and short lists. I understand this as how to "divide" the issues in the parking lot, and that it is the short list that get promoted to Wonder, Explore etc. Or did I misunderstand something?
• Regarding Spikes in Wonder and Explore. You didn't seem to create tasks/stories for those in the teams Jira boards. Why is that, and how does the spikes get prioritized over other team work?
• You did include bugs/paper cuts in JPD as Pebbles. Will you continue to do that when the product is released? I'm accustomed to set aside 20% of the team capacity to handle technical debt and bugs and just keep an eye on the prioritization of those in the team backlog.

[Jaderson Bairros Kisiolar]

I would to thanks the guys of Atlassian to creates this awesome and intuitive projects. 

As a CEO and consultant of projects, It makes needed to structure all the creatives ideas that is emerging in the workflow of Product building. So when I connects the PD workflow, with worload management in Trello and Jira, I got a real strenght joined resources to be agile, efficient and aligned with my needs as PM. 

Get a time to try a MVP of this joined resources, you will be metrified impressed with the save time of yours Projects lifecycle.

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[William Guerra]

Nice work, I have used the prioritation matrix for years but in unlinked tools, now I can set the ideas and then conect the prioritized one with the team using Jira. 

[Islam Mezied]

Thank you @Tanguy Crusson , I followed the link and tried to access the book download link but it is not working. could you please help with this?

[Islam Mezied]

@Tanguy Crusson I realized and resolved the issue. I was logged in using a non-business email, which is why the download link wasn’t working.

For anyone facing the same issue, logout and fill out the form using a business email, and the link will work without any problems.

Thank you!

[Daniel Eden]

Hi @Tanguy Crusson  - I noticed that the link to the Boulder, Rocks, Pebbles framework (on p.23/114) is not accessible. I get the message: "You don't have access to that space"

here is the link: https://pm-dev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PH/pages/1409080 

[Tanguy Crusson]

@Daniel Eden that was an error when creating the PDF, you'll find the section later in the handbook