Timebook objects*
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In short: Timebook objects are essential for managing strategy, discovery, and execution within your organization. With these elements, you can cover most product management scenarios and ensure alignment from planning through implementation.
What are Timebook objects?
Timebook objects are the essential building blocks for managing your organization's strategy, driving project discovery, and ensuring effective work management. These objects help you visualize, plan, and execute work by connecting different parts of the entire product development process.
With Timebook objects, you can easily set up your guiding objectives and provide a clear pathway from discovery to execution. Understanding these objects and how they relate to one another will help you, your team, and your entire organization collaborate more effectively to build better products.
Strategy
A well-defined strategy is crucial in product management, serving as the foundation for achieving organizational goals and aligning teams around a common vision. In Timebook, the strategic layer helps you build this foundation, guiding the entire product development process from initial idea to execution.
The strategic layer of Timebook includes three key objects: Goals, Initiatives, and Roadmaps.
Goals are the high-level objectives that guide all work in Timebook. They represent the outcomes teams aim to achieve, helping everyone stay focused on the bigger picture. Key Results are the measurable milestones that indicate progress towards achieving these Goals, helping teams track their success.
Initiatives serve as the actionable steps or efforts that move a Goal forward. They help to organize the work and prioritize efforts. Initiatives can also be linked to Projects, ensuring that the work remains aligned with broader objectives and effectively managed.
Roadmaps offer a visual representation of planned work over time, making it easier to communicate plans and align teams around future activities. They help visualize Project timelines and ensure everyone is aware of what's ahead.
Together, these elements form the core of Timebook's strategic focus, providing a clear view of where the organization wants to go and how it plans to get there.
Discovery
Timebook's Discovery module helps you uncover opportunities to improve your product and turn them into actionable insights. By working with Opportunities, Solutions, and Assumptions, you can identify key problems, develop effective solutions, and validate your ideas before moving forward.
This structured approach, known as the 'Opportunity Solution Tree,' ensures that your team is always focused on solving the most impactful problems, leading to better outcomes.
Opportunities are the potential areas for improvement or unmet needs that have been identified. They represent what could make the product or process better. Opportunity Score is used to evaluate and prioritize these Opportunities, helping teams focus on the most impactful areas.
Solutions are the ideas and approaches designed to address the identified Opportunities. This involves evaluating different ways to solve a problem and selecting the most promising ones.
Assumptions are the beliefs or hypotheses made about an Opportunity or Solution that need to be tested. Validating these Assumptions is crucial to ensure that the proposed Solutions are effective and feasible.
This discovery process enables teams to focus on solving the right problems, ensuring their work is grounded in customer needs and well-supported insights.
Execution
With a solid strategy and a clear understanding of opportunities through discovery, the next step is execution. This phase brings together everything you've planned, turning ideas into actionable tasks and ensuring that all efforts are effectively managed to achieve your objectives.
Once a plan is in place, it's time for execution, where different Timebook objects come into play to ensure that work is effectively managed and completed.
Work Items are individual tasks or pieces of work that contribute to larger Projects. They represent the day-to-day efforts needed to complete the overall objectives and ensure all related tasks are effectively organized and tracked.
Tickets are used to manage and track feedback, requests, or bug reports. They provide a systematic way to collect and address issues as they arise, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. Feedback can be collected through various channels, including dedicated email addresses, in-built feedback forms, and external app integrations.
Projects organize related Work Items, providing a container for everything needed to achieve a specific outcome. They can also be linked to Goals through Key Results, ensuring that all work aligns with the organization's strategic objectives.
Sprints are short, time-boxed cycles used for executing work at a consistent pace. They help teams move towards their objectives in regular, predictable increments. By breaking down work into manageable intervals, Sprints ensure continuous progress throughout the project lifecycle.
With these elements, Timebook bridges the gap between strategy, discovery, and execution, ensuring that all tasks are well-organized and aligned with your broader objectives.
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Goal
Set clear objectives to guide your organization's work and drive progress.
Initiative
Break down Goals into actionable steps and linked them to Projects.
Roadmap
Visualize your plans to align teams around future activities.
Discovery objects
Uncover Opportunities, create Solutions, and test Assumptions to solve the right problems.
Work Item
Track individual tasks that contribute to your Project’s success.
Ticket
Manage feedback, requests, and bug reports from different sources.
Project
Group related tasks to keep work organized and aligned with strategic objectives.
Sprint
Execute work in focused, time-boxed cycles for continuous progress.
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