Sometimes the most challenging product requirements come from our tiniest stakeholders.
When my 7-year-old daughter Adeline, a passionate dinosaur enthusiast, asked Santa for a book of "never-before-solved dinosaur experiments," I found myself putting on my Product Manager hat in an unexpected way. After all, she had already conquered every age-appropriate dinosaur experiment available on the market.
Faced with this unique challenge, I turned to ChatPRD to brainstorm a solution I could craft myself. (Special shoutout to Claire Vo - you're now helping parents deliver holiday magic alongside solving business problems!)
First, I trained a text-based LLM to communicate scientific concepts through "enthusiastic, accessible, and playful language" - though I admit I spent more time than anticipated asking it to tone down its overenthusiastic capitalization of kid-friendly science content in every other sentence.
My prompt engineering ensured each experiment included:
➜ An exciting "expedition" hook to capture a 7-year-old's imagination
➜ Clear scientific tool requirements
➜ An engaging central question
➜ Guidance to form a hypothesis
➜ Field investigation steps
➜ Reflection space for discoveries
➜ Hypothesis verification summary
After developing 5 experiments (and carefully vetting them for accuracy and parent-friendliness - no, I wasn't about to let my 7-year-old unfurl 40 feet of string inside my house to measure a T-Rex!), I realized pure text alone wouldn't captivate a child for too long. I leveraged another LLM to generate complementary imagery, including custom coloring pages featuring a young girl dressed as an aspiring paleontologist posing with her dino friends.
What began as a challenge to meet an ambitious "user requirement" became a reminder that sometimes our most impactful product decisions aren't made in boardrooms, but at kitchen tables and in quiet moments of creative problem-solving.
Whether we're crafting PRDs for enterprise solutions or dinosaur experiments, the heart of product management remains the same: understanding our users deeply and creating experiences that spark joy and discovery.
As I wrapped up this particular "product launch" just in time for the holidays, I'm energized to bring this same blend of methodical thinking and creative problem-solving to my next professional chapter.
I'm actively seeking a new product management role where I can continue turning complex challenges into meaningful solutions. After all, the best product managers know that innovation isn't always about cutting-edge technology – sometimes it's about finding unexpected ways to delight users, whether they're enterprise stakeholders or aspiring seven-year-old paleontologists.
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