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Pricing Strategy vs PRD Development Workshop

Two product management skills. Which one fits your job? Side-by-side below.

The short version

Pricing Strategy

By Corey Haines (Marketing)

Design pricing tiers and packaging that capture value and drive SaaS growth.

PRD Development Workshop

By Dean Peters (PM)

Turn scattered discovery notes into a clear, complete PRD that aligns your team and gets engineers building.

What each one does

Pricing Strategy

  • Guides you through pricing research methods like Van Westendorp to find what customers will pay
  • Helps choose the right value metric (per user, per usage, flat fee) that scales with customer value
  • Designs Good-Better-Best tier structures with clear feature differentiation and price points
  • Advises on when and how to raise prices based on market signals and business performance
  • Provides pricing page best practices and conversion psychology tactics

PRD Development Workshop

  • Walks you through 8 phases of PRD creation, from executive summary to user stories and success metrics
  • Structures your discovery insights into sections: problem statement, personas, strategic context, solution overview, and requirements
  • Generates a complete PRD document that engineering can act on, with acceptance criteria and scope boundaries
  • Captures the 'why' behind decisions so future team members understand strategic context
  • Provides a standard template covering problem, users, solution, metrics, dependencies, and out-of-scope items

When to pick each one

Reach for Pricing Strategy when…

  • You're launching a new SaaS product and need to set initial pricing
  • Your conversion rate or ARPU suggests your pricing might be wrong
  • You're considering a price increase but unsure how to execute it
  • You need to restructure your pricing tiers or change your packaging

Reach for PRD Development Workshop when…

  • You're starting a major feature or product initiative and need to align your team
  • You've finished discovery research and need to turn findings into an engineering-ready document
  • You need to document requirements before development begins on a significant project
  • You want to create a shared source of truth that prevents scope creep and miscommunication

Quick facts

Pricing StrategyPRD Development Workshop
Made byCorey Haines (Marketing)Dean Peters (PM)
CategoryProduct ManagementProduct Management
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