Timebook objects
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In short: Timebook objects are essential for managing strategy, discovery, and delivery within your organization. With these elements, you can cover most product management scenarios and ensure alignment from planning through implementation.
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 delivery. 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.
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 these key objects: Products, Goals, and Roadmaps.
represent the real-world products your organization creates, manages, or supports. By adding Products to your Timebook Workplace, you can map your company’s portfolio directly into the app, centralizing information, workflows, and resources related to each Product.
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.
are strategic efforts that help bridge the gap between high-level Goals and the smaller, more actionable tasks grouped in Projects. Initiatives represent key areas of focus or themes that align with your organization’s objectives and are broader in scope than individual Projects but narrower than long-term Goals
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.
Timebook’s discovery tools help you uncover opportunities to improve your product and turn them into actionable objects. You can use Interviews and Insights as effective and automated tools to gather feedback directly from users, helping you better understand their needs and refine your product strategies. Then, by working with Opportunities and Solutions, 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.
This discovery process enables teams to focus on solving the right problems, ensuring their work is grounded in customer needs and well-supported insights.
With a solid strategy and a clear understanding of opportunities through discovery, the next step is delivery. 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 delivery, where different Timebook objects come into play to ensure that work is effectively managed and completed.
With these elements, Timebook bridges the gap between strategy, discovery, and delivery, ensuring that all tasks are well-organized and aligned with your broader objectives.
are conversations with users or stakeholders that help you gather feedback and understand their needs, challenges, and goals. They support your decision-making process, validate ideas, and lay the groundwork for meaningful product improvements.
are key takeaways from user feedback or data that highlight patterns, opportunities, or issues. With Timebook's AI Assistant, you can automatically generate Insights to guide data-driven decisions and improve your product.
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.
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.
are visualization tools that help you present the discovery phase objects listed above in a structured, tree-like view. OSTs can also connect these objects to overarching objectives, breaking down high-level goals into actionable pathways.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Product
Represent your organization’s real-life products to map your portfolio into Timebook.
Goal
Set clear objectives to guide your organization’s work and drive progress.
Initiative
Bridge the gap between high-level objectives and project work.
Roadmap
Visualize your plans to align teams around future activities.
Interview
Store and manage your conversations with users and stakeholders to gether feedback in one place.
Insight
Use Timebook’s AI capabilities to capture valuable takeaways from user feedback.
Opportunity
Identify areas for improvement and use Opportunity Score to prioritize them.
Solution
Design different approaches to address identified Opportunities.
Opportunity Solution Tree
Visualize all discovery objects in a structured, tree-like view.
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.