Top 5 Notion Templates For Product Managers
By: Utkarsh Talwar
Tags: Technology, Startup, Productivity, Product Management, Collaboration

User Research

User research is another important part of the PM’s job. It is the PM’s responsibility to create different user personas and talk to customers fitting those user personas to determine which themes and features need to be prioritized. Product managers need to follow and foster a decision-making process that is evidence-based, so user research proves to be incredibly useful to them.

How can Notion help?

With Notion, you can manage all your upcoming meetings scheduled with the customers in one document. Not only this, you can also assign the meetings to different members in your team if needed, and create separate pages for each person so you can jot down pre-interview preparation notes and their feedback post-interview in an easily accessible place.

Check out this awesome Notion template to take your user research game to the next level.

Tip: If you’re already a Notion user and logged into your account, just click on the ‘Duplicate’ button on the top right corner of any template and copy it to your own workspace.

Sprint Retro

In agile development, conducting retrospective meetings is an essential part of the process. Things don’t always go as planned, and agile development takes this in stride. That’s why sprint retros exist. They let you openly discuss the successes and failures of a sprint. This way, you can move forward with important lessons and apply them to subsequent sprints to avoid the same traps and failures.

How can Notion help?

With Notion, you can easily create a document for each sprint retro with sections for important topics of discussion. You can check out a fairly simple yet well thought-out Notion template for conducting a sprint retrospective here. It’s built on the traditional methodology and includes sections like:

What went right?

What went wrong?

What did we learn?

Next actions

Team members can show their agreement to a statement by voting in its favor (increase the vote counter by one point). If your team conducts retros in a different manner and includes other topics of discussion in the meeting, you can simply add new sections to this template.

Product Wiki

Lastly, let’s talk about the most important and most powerful Notion template for PMs. You can use this to boost not only your own productivity but your team’s productivity as well. I’m talking about a product wiki!

A product wiki is a space where you can keep track of all the documents shared across your team. I’ve tried a number of tools over the years to maintain a product wiki, and I’m sure many of you must have done the same. It can get frustrating when your documents are scattered across five different platforms. It’s inefficient and wastes time. Not only that, onboarding new members to your team becomes slow and painful as you have to invite and help them find their way around each workplace separately.

How can Notion help?

Like I said before, you can have many different types of documents and document views in Notion. As a PM, you can leverage this to create a better, more efficient collaboration space for your team. The dream of keeping everything together in one common space no longer remains a dream. You can keep a record of all things related to your product in your Notion product wiki, whether it be design specs, processes, best practices, tasks, deadlines, OKRs, or anything else. Your team members can easily find, contribute to, and comment on these documents. This helps maintain one single source of knowledge for the whole team.

Find a great Notion template to create your own product wiki here. As with everything else, you can add or remove whatever new kind of document you use with your product team.

Bonus

In small teams, product managers often wear multiple hats and have auxiliary responsibilities appended to their role that ensure the smooth functioning of the team. I know several PMs like this and I’m myself in a similar position. So here are some great templates for those of us who want to squeeze that extra bit of productivity out of Notion.

Engineering

For those who are much more directly involved in the product’s development process. They often take the role of a scrum master as well as the product owner.

Design

For PMs who are more involved in the design process and work closely with the designers.

Design Spec

Marketing

For PMs who are also responsible for managing the product’s brand and what message is being put out about their product.

Content Calendar

Being a product manager is a lot of work. You have to manage dozens of moving parts as well as the expectations of a lot of people. I believe as PMs, we should try to secure every possible advantage. Find the tools that give you an edge. Notion is one such tool.