2. Who are we?
2
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjdunning/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-schure/
Business Integrated
Governance CIC
CEO Deepteam, Chairman
CPS, Director Core P3M
Data Club
Lead author on Business
Integrated Governance –
Product Integration
BSI G1 Governance
Committee Member
https://www.deepteam.co
.uk/
https://www.cps.co.uk
David Dunning
Product Manager & Consultant
Co-author "Product Management for
Dummies"
25+ years' experience in product
management, product marketing,
and own businesses
Consultant for Fortune 100
companies in product
Product management & Agile
Curriculum development and
delivery
Pamela Schure
https://www.Corep3m.club
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13651399/
3. Agenda
◉ Product Management - Definition (AIPMM.com)
◉ Strategic Context - Value Creation, Business as Usual and Change
◉ Product Lifecycle – Depends on the product
◉ Development Cadence – Defined management method
◉ Delivery Method – Continuous, finite, hybrid
◉ Conclusions
3
4. Definition for Product
4
Defining
Organisations
• AIPMM
• ProdBOK
• Agile Alliance
• Scrum.org
Product Management
“Offers” - Implies
Externally
• Product
• Capability
• Asset
Product Management
◉ Focussed on achieving directional future state,
outcomes
◉ Realising benefits as defined in a vision, through a
roadmap, using a cross-functional organisation.
Product
Solution offering - consisting of tangible and intangible
components that meets or exceeds customer
expectations and that delivers a benefit to the
organization that offers the product.
7. Many kinds of product!
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Consumed Immediately!
Manufacture
Sustain the Capital
Market
Consumed over years
Build
Sustain the Asset
Sell and Upgrade
Consumed over years
Manufacture
Planned upgrades
Sell and Service
Consumed Quickly!
Continuously Develop
Sustain IP
Market
Product Lifecycle
Other
brands
available!
Internal Finance System
Capability
Consumed Slowly!
Continuously Develop
Sustain IP / Usage
8. Product Management Delivery Methods
Delivery Method
Finite
Series of justified
and controlled
projects /
programme –
Outputs and
outcomes
Continuous
Business as usual -
business plan –
Targets - KPI / KRI
Hybrid
Original
Programme –
Continuous
Development –
BAU, Value
Creation & Change
- OKR
Programme
BAU ALL
Project
9. Engineering
Develop
Sales, Marketing, Service
Manufacturing
Refresh
Build
• Engineering project to develop v1
Slower Cadence Products
Product Management
Conceive Plan Develop Qualify Launch Deliver Retire
• BAU activity to support
• Mid-life refresh based on
business case
• Asset creation project to build
manufacturing capability
Cadence
Retire
• Change project to build tech
support and business capability
Change Refresh
10. Faster Cadence Products
Cadence
Product Management
Conceive Plan Develop Qualify Launch Deliver Retire
Engineering/Development
ProdOps/Service
Sales, Marketing
• Engineering project to develop v1?
• BAU activity to support
• Dev may continue…
• Mid-life refresh based on
business case
• Change projects to build
tech support (if sperate)
and business capability
Retire?
Build
Change
May not retire!
Develop
11. Where Product Emphasizes…
◉ Customer empathy / validation
◉ Design thinking
◉ Customer Ensure all Personas are taken into account
◉ Ongoing performance evaluation
◉ Roadmap
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It’s all relative!
Conclusions
12. Conclusions
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Product – central to
strategy
Product - more
Continuous or Hybrid
Delivery
Product Governance
- by type of Product
Product - not just
initial creation
Horses for courses…
Conclusions
13. Thank you for Listening
13
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjdunning/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-schure/
CEO Deepteam, Chairman
CPS, Director Core P3M
Data Club
Lead author on Business
Integrated Governance
BSI G1 Governance
Committee Member
https://www.deepteam.co
.uk/
https://www.cps.co.uk
David Dunning
Product Consultant
Co-author "Product Management for
Dummies"
25+ years experience in product
management, product marketing,
and own businesses
Consultant for Fortune 100
companies in product management
Product management & Agile
Curriculum development and
delivery
Pamela Schure
Product Management for Dummies
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Product-Management-Dummies-
Brian-Lawley/dp/1119264022
Product Governance
https://corep3m.club/product - click on the link in
the page for details…
Editor's Notes
PMI UK Hybrid Event: Project vs Product Management: Understanding the Parallels and Intersections. 22nd June 2023
There is a lot more conversation on LinkedIn currently about Project and Product Management. It appears the world is waking up to these disciplines as means to deliver strategic outcomes. But what to use when, how do they work together, and how do they fit our strategy operating model?This session aims to analyse similarities and differences between these two roles and better focus the character of these two professions.How do you work with these capabilities from a strategy perspective, and where do these fit into your integrated governance?Read more about the subject and post event report - https://www.deepteam.co.uk/product-management-vs-project-managementPrevious similar events:From Strategy to Value - and Back Againhttps://www.deepteam.co.uk/value-generation-driving-and-driven-by-strategyProduct Management Governance in BIGhttps://1drv.ms/w/s!AscRj7Bfp6vQgv8eKuONh6iIHrK2qQ?e=6ztkIk
Additional Points noted from previous discussions
- The people working for you while managing a product may not report to you – integration from all over the organisation
- Product = An octopus – pulling people together
On the left
Organisation context:
External factors influencing of the organisation defines its opportunities, threats, imperatives and goals
A purpose driven organisation will evaluate and define strategy
Strategy turned into actionables via objectives for change, targets for performance, and challenges for innovation.
On the right
Strategic steer to develop / sustain assets / deliverables through which value is generated
Change needed to develop / sustain
BAU needed to develop / deliver
Adoption and sustainment of product
For many of us in P3 world, product is either something developed, a component, or an output from a project (method redesign, gearbox design, office move). For others it is also something that becomes an asset to be managed (e.g. a ship, a railway, a shared services centre) or something that is manufactured and consumed (car, ice cream) or something that is evergreen (software, craft beer, service etc.)
Lifecycle works for all product types – bur with different emphasis in each case.
Qualify is market test, not technically test.
Some may have parallel steps, and cycles – iterations – and may be persistent.
Kit Kat - Fundamental product static, marketing changes
Software - Product rapidly changing – or in the case of solution – less quickly!
Brand develops, product evolves & step changes
Car - Brand develops, product evolves & step changes
Battleship - Product evolves & step changes
Projects are good methods to develop, build, change, refresh and retire
BAU management to deliver
This scenario pulls the teams into projects to work on products. Scope may be firmer, timing firmer, resource / funding set.
Design delivery - less project like – ‘BAU projects’ was a term mentioned
Project is not necessarily the way to develop product
Puts the work through teams designed to work on products. Scope flexible, time windows set, resource / funding constrained
These are generalisations, argument as follows:
Customer empathy – product manager is the voice of the customer – project manager is the delivery lead
Design thinking – product managers tend to have more subject matter expertise in their product
Customer validation – “senior user” on project board
Ensure all Personas are taken into account – project executive on project board
Ongoing performance evaluation – programme manager – benefit realisation
Roadmap – programme manager