Product Management MCQ Flashcards
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What does 'feature parity' mean in a competitive product context?
Answer: Building the same features a competitor already has
Feature parity means your product offers the same capabilities as a competitor, often pursued to remove objections during sales but rarely a source of competitive advantage.
Which framework helps a PM analyze external market forces that affect a product's competitive position?
Answer: Porter's Five Forces
Porter's Five Forces evaluates competitive rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrants to assess industry attractiveness.
A PM is asked to reduce time-to-value for new users. Which lever is most directly impactful?
Answer: Streamline the onboarding flow to accelerate the 'aha moment'
Reducing time-to-value means helping users reach the core value of the product faster, which is most directly achieved by improving onboarding to the 'aha moment.'
What is the main risk of relying solely on quantitative data for product decisions?
Answer: It shows what users do but not why they do it
Quantitative data reveals behavioral patterns and trends but lacks the context to explain the motivations, frustrations, or mental models behind user actions.
In continuous discovery, how often should a product team be conducting user interviews?
Answer: Weekly, as an ongoing practice
Continuous discovery, as defined by Teresa Torres, involves weekly touchpoints with customers to continuously surface opportunities rather than doing research in isolated bursts.
What is a 'wizard of oz' prototype used for in product discovery?
Answer: Simulating a product experience with manual human effort behind the scenes
A Wizard of Oz prototype lets users believe they're interacting with a working system while humans manually perform the 'automated' actions, enabling cheap validation of concepts.
What does 'dogfooding' mean in a product management context?
Answer: Using your own product internally before releasing it to customers
Dogfooding (eating your own dog food) means your team uses the product you build, which surfaces real usability issues and builds empathy with users.