Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Understand the drivers for your product transformation.
Define the drivers for your transition to product-centric delivery.
1.1 What is driving your organization to become product focused?
List of challenges and drivers
Understand the product transformation journey and differences.
Identify the cultural, behavioral, and leadership changes needed for a successful transformation.
2.1 Define the differences between projects and product delivery
List of differences
Understand why smaller iterations increase value realization and decrease accumulated risk.
Leverage smaller iterations to reduce time to value and accumulated risk to core operations.
3.1 What is business agility?
Common understanding about the value of smaller iterations
Establish an organizational starting definition of products.
Tailor product management to meet the needs and vision of your organization.
4.1 What is a product? Who are your consumers?
4.2 Identify enablers and blockers of product ownership
4.3 Define a set of guiding principles for product management
Product definition
List of enablers and blockers of product ownership
Set of guiding principles for product management
Understand the relationship between product management and product delivery.
Optimize product management to prioritize the right changes for the right people at the right time.
5.1 Discussions
Common understanding
Personalize and commit to supporting product teams.
Embrace leadership and cultural changes needed to empower and support teams.
6.1 Your management culture
6.2 Personal Cultural Stop, Start, and Continue
6.3 Now, Next, Later to support product owners
Your management culture map
Personal Cultural Stop, Start, and Continue list
Now, Next, Later roadmap
To develop a common understanding and foundation for product management so we, as leaders, better understand how to lead product owners, product managers, and their teams.
Learn how enterprise agility can provide lasting value to the organization
Repeat workshops with different companies, operating units, departments, or teams as needed.
We WILL ENGAGE in discussions and activities:
This workshop will NOT be:
Facilitators
Participants
Your Challenge
Common Obstacles
Info-Tech's Approach
Info-Tech's approach will guide you through:
Capture in the Enable Product Delivery – Executive Leadership Workshop Outcomes and Next Steps.
Input
Output
Capture in the Enable Product Delivery – Executive Leadership Workshop Outcomes and Next Steps.
Output
Project Delivery | vs | Product Delivery |
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Point in time | What is changed | |
Method of funding changes | Needs an owner | |
Output
Capture in the Enable Product Delivery – Executive Leadership Workshop Outcomes and Next Steps.
Project | Product | ||
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Fund Projects | Funding | → | Fund Products or Teams |
Line of Business Sponsor | Prioritization | → | Product Owner |
Makes Specific Changes | Product Management | → | Improve Product Maturity |
Assign People to Work | Work Allocation | → | Assign Work |
Project Manager Manages | Capacity Management | → | Team Manages Capacity |
Product delivery requires significant shifts in the way you complete development work and deliver value to your users. Make the changes that support improving end user value and enterprise alignment.
Regardless of whether you recognize yourself as a "product-based" or "project-based" shop, the same basic principles should apply.
You go through a period or periods of project-like development to build a version of an application or product.
You also have parallel services along with your project development, which encompass the more product-based view. These may range from basic support and maintenance to full-fledged strategy teams or services like sales and marketing.
In Deliver on Your Digital Product Vision, we demonstrate how the product roadmap is core to value realization. The product roadmap is your communicated path, and as a product owner, you use it to align teams and changes to your defined goals while aligning your product to enterprise goals and strategy.
Adapted from: Pichler, "What Is Product Management?"
The quality of your product backlog – and your ability to realize business value from your delivery pipeline – is directly related to the input, content, and prioritization of items in your product roadmap.