The Scala Executive Programme presents a series of one-day workshops commencing Sep 14 in Dublin. Scala Executive will develop the skills of those involved in product management, delivering product management training in key areas.
2. Improved product
management can have
a profound impact on
overall business
success and product
profitability
Product
Management
Product Management
3. Scala Executive
• Four, one day workshops
• Sept 2014 to Feb 2015
• Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin
• Designed in conjunction with DIT’s
Postgraduate Diploma and MSc in Product
Management
4. Discovering Customer
Requirements
Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting
29 September
Product Roadmapping
Andrew Dickenson, Product Focus
30 October
Quickstart Product
Management
Steven Haines, Sequent Learning
4 February
Strategic Pricing
Andrew Dickenson, Product Focus
20 November
Programme Overview
5. Who should attend
• Executives in growing digital and software companies
• C-Level management leading product management
functions
• Engineering staff with a need to understand product
management
• Product managers
• Business analysts
• Marketing managers
6. Why you should attend
• Learn key processes used to guide product management
across organisation
• Discover why having processes is critical to making
efficient decisions
• Take away templates customisable for company use
• Processes learnt will enable you to
– Reduce number of lost sales
– Scale products effectively
– Align resources
– Reduced wasted time and effort
7. Discovering customer requirements
Ellen Gottesdiener
• International expert in Agile
Product and Project
management practices
• Acclaimed thought leader in
business analysis
• Multiple author in requirement
setting
• Clients worldwide
8. Discovering customer requirements
What you will learn
• Survey requirements, discovery challenges
and techniques
• Define stakeholders as product partners
• Use business value to strategically align
your product with customer needs
• Collaboratively discover requirements
• Interactive workshop will
– Explore
– Evaluate
– Confirm customer requirements
9. Product Roadmapping
Andrew Dickenson
• Founder of Product Focus
• 24 years’ product
management and product
marketing experience
• One of Europe’s leading
software product
management facilitators
10. Product Roadmapping
What you will learn
• How to collate and prioritise ideas
• Plan and communicate effective roadmap
• Why having a standard process is critical to
making efficient decisions
• Different release strategies and pros/cons of
each
• How investment decision making typically
happens and implications
11. Strategic pricing – Andrew Dickenson
What you will learn
• Different pricing strategies
• How they work
• How software can be priced
• Bundling
• Discounting
• Pricing psychology
• Testing options
12. Quickstart product management
Steven Haines
• Founder Sequent Learning Networks
and the The Product Management
Executive Board
• 30 years international product
management experience
• Among the world’s top product management experts
• Author of best selling Product Manager’s Desk
Reference, Managing Product Management and The
Product Manager’s Survival Guide
13. Quickstart product management
What you will learn
• Understand key constructs for product
management
• How to navigate the organisation, build
relationships and earn the ability to influence
others
• Key processes used to guide work across the
organisation
• Become as productive as possible, as fast as
possible - ‘be a successful product manager’
• Skills and tools to create a 90 day action plan
14. Discovering Customer Requirements
Business analysts, product managers,
product owners, project managers, user
experience practitioners
29 September
Product Roadmapping
Product managers, product owners,
CTOs, designers, technology leaders
30 October
Quickstart Product Management
New product managers, aspiring product
managers, product owners, product
owners’ managers
4 February
Strategic Pricing
Product managers, product marketing
managers, pricing specialists
20 November
Who should attend?
15. Cost
• €395 members
• €335 members: 2+ from company
• €550 non members
Editor's Notes
CEOs and senior management leading or interacting with product management functions
Executives in growing digital and software technology companies
Product managers
Engineering staff needing an understanding of product management
Business analysts
Marketing staff
Anybody requiring knowledge of key aspects of product management and best practice models
Learn key processes and methods used to guide product management across the organisation
Take away templates and toolkits which can be customised for use in your company
Discover how to align resources to reduce wasted time and effort within product management
The processes learnt will enable you to close sales quicker and reduce the number of lost sales
Improve your entire customer experience
Learn how products can be planned, developed, launched and life-cycled
Discover why having a standard process in place is critical to making efficient decisions
Understand the different approaches and pros and cons for product release strategies
Find out how investment decision making typically happens in companies and their implications
Attendees of the first course, Discover Customer Requirements, will receive a free copy of Ellen Gottesdiener’s latest book Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis
Ellen is an internationally recognised expert in agile product and project management practices, business analysis and requirements and collaboration. She is a dynamic and influential coach and works with clients all over the world.
Ellen has presented at many industry conferences including Agile Development Practices, ProjectSummit/Business Analysis World, Project World & World Congress for Business Analysis, Software Development Best Practices
founder of Product Focus has 24 years’ experience in product management and product marketing. Product Focus is Europe’s leading product management and product marketing training company
Steven Haines is the founder of Sequent Learning Networks, and The Product Management Executive Board. Steven has 30 years international product management and business leadership experience across a variety of industries including Oracle, AT&T and WR Grace.