Table of contents : CONTENTS Why We Wrote This Book I. Introduction to Product Operations 1. Why Product Operations? 2. What is Product Operations? 3. The Three Pillars of Product Operations II. Pillar 1: Business Data and Insights 4. Contextualizing Data from a Product Perspective 5. Getting to the Right Strategic Questions 6. Visualizing the Data Case Study: Capitalization at athenahealth Getting Started with Data and Insights III. Pillar 2: Customer and Market Insights 7. The Research Pillar 8. Customer Insights 9. Streamlining the User Research 10. Market Research Case Study: Democratizing User Research at Fidelity Getting Started with Customer and Market Insights IV. Pillar 3: Creating a Product Operating Model: Process and Practices 11. The Product Operating Model 12. Creating the Process and Governance of the Product Operating Model 13. Governance and Product Planning 14. Defining Process for Product Managers 15. Tools of Enablement Case Study: Annual Planning at Oscar Health Getting Started with Process and Practices V. Introducing Product Operations at Your Organization 16. When and Where to Start 17. Getting Buy-In 18. Common Objections: How to Respond 19. Building Consensus 20. How to Win Them Over Case Study: Finding Key Quick Wins at Amplitude Getting Started with Introducing Product Operations at Your Organization VI. Building and Scaling a Product Operations Function 21. How to Get Started 22. Team of One 23. Team of Several 24. Filling the Roles 25. Embedded vs. Shared Service Model Case Study: Building and Scaling Product Operations with Blake Samic 26. The Future of Product Operations at Pipeline 3K 27. The Future of Product Operations Getting Started with Building & Scaling a Product Operations Function VII. Lessons Learned 28. Secure Executive Support 29. Culture Counts 30. Focus on All Data 31. Get to Impact Quickly 32. Balance Process with Agility VIII. Your Roadmap to Change 33. Activating Product Operations: Four Key Takeaways 34. Your Roadmap to Standing Up Product Operations Acknowledgments About the Authors