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Digital Product Dictionary

Plain-language definitions across product foundations, strategy, research, experience, delivery, operations, measurement, value, roles, data, and AI.
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17 popular terms · 125 terms total

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Value

Adoption

The extent to which intended users understand, begin using, and continue receiving value from a digital product.

Data & AI

AI-enabled digital product

A digital product that uses artificial intelligence as part of the value it provides and is supported by clear ownership, evaluation, governance, experience, adoption, and operations.

Foundation

Digital product

An intentionally managed digital capability that delivers continuing value to defined users, supported by ownership, experience, measurement, operations, and evolution.

Foundation

Digital product lifecycle

The connected decisions and responsibilities through which an organization evaluates an opportunity and discovers, defines, designs, develops, validates, launches, supports adoption of, operates, evolves, and eventually retires a digital product.

Foundation

Digital productization

The work required to turn a functioning digital solution into a dependable product with ownership, experience, adoption, measurement, governance, support, and an operating model.

Foundation

Digital solution

A digital response to a defined need or problem. A solution may work technically without yet having the conditions required to operate as a sustainable product.

Operations

Governance

The decision rights, controls, evidence, reviews, and accountability used to guide a product responsibly.

Delivery

Minimum viable product (MVP)

The smallest coherent product experience that can deliver meaningful value and produce useful evidence for future decisions.

Value

Outcome

A meaningful change in user behavior, organizational performance, or another condition that the product is intended to influence.

Delivery

Product hardening

The coordinated, cross-functional work of making a functioning product dependable, secure, supportable, and ready for real-world use.

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Direction

Product management

The continuing direction of a product across user needs, outcomes, priorities, investment, decisions, adoption, performance, and evolution.

Operations

Product operations

The practices, tools, evidence, governance, and working systems that help products and product teams operate consistently.

Delivery

Product Owner

The person accountable in Scrum for maximizing product value and making Product Backlog priorities clear and usable.

Delivery

Product ownership

The team-facing responsibility for turning product direction into prioritized, clear, and actionable delivery decisions.

Direction

Product roadmap

A communication and decision tool that connects product outcomes, priorities, planned learning, and potential work over time.

Direction

Product strategy

The choices that define whom the product serves, what value it should create, where to invest, and how success will be evaluated.

Delivery

User acceptance testing (UAT)

Validation performed with business representatives or intended users to confirm that a product supports agreed needs and real-world use.

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