Know Your Product: A Practical Guide to Functional Decomposition

To manage a mature product effectively, first decompose it into clear features and domains. Build a feature registry to enable data-driven decisions and uncover the true value and cost of your software.

Management is an overused term that could mean almost anything. There are myriads of professions somehow aligned with management. But the general purpose of this process is to define the object of management and set goals that the object should achieve.

In the case of product management, your product or part of this product is an object. Diving into a new project or during a brainstorming process on how to boost the current ones, it is crucial to have a clear understanding of what you are managing: pros and cons of the current product, the overall set of features, and product limitations.

The creation of a new product is pretty fun. You ...