Product management for Startup leadership program oct 2013

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Management
Management

Custome
r

Technolo
gy

Business

Product
manageme
nt

“

the role of a product
manager is to
discover a product
that is valuable, usable
and feasible

”

Marty Cagan, Inspired: How To Create Products Customers
Love

What
problem
are you
solving?

“

Fact : In the real world,
most companies do too
much development and
spend too much money
too early

”

Fred Destin, Atlas Ventures

“

We own the process.
The process doesn't own
us. We call it Agile Jazz.

Tom Loosemore, Gov.uk

”

“

Don’t fail fast.

Tom Chi, Google X

learn

”

fast

Questions?
Get the tools

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simon@prodpad.com
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Product management for Startup leadership program oct 2013

1. Product Management Management

2.

3. Custome r Technolo gy Business Product manageme nt

4. “ the role of a product manager is to discover a product that is valuable, usable and feasible ” Marty Cagan, Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

5. What problem are you solving?

6.

7. “ Fact : In the real world, most companies do too much development and spend too much money too early ” Fred Destin, Atlas Ventures

8. “ We own the process. The process doesn't own us. We call it Agile Jazz. Tom Loosemore, Gov.uk ”

9. “ Don’t fail fast. Tom Chi, Google X learn ” fast

10.

11. Questions? Get the tools http://www.prodpad.com Simon Cast simon@prodpad.com @simoncast Learn more http://www.mindtheproduct.com

Editor's Notes

- Co-founder of ProdPad - Co-founder of Mind the Product which consists of a community blog, monthly product focused meet ups called ProductTank in 13 cities, product camp LDN and Mind the Product conference - I've been doing product in one form or another for about 15 years now. My first product
- A company consists of three things customers, technology and business - Product manager sits in the middle like conductor of a symphony
- Product management & product managers are focused on ensuring that the right thing is built
- Core of product management - What is the value of solving the problem - Compelling solution - No customers? You have a target segment, do customer interviews etc - Most solving for a known need - need to understand that problem & come up with a compelling solution & test
- Product management isn't project management - Its a non-linear cycle - learnings impact requirements, roadmaps, priorities - Difference between waterfall and iterative is how quickly feedback can change things
- Roadmapping communicates areas of focus that will achieve the vision - Avoid dates on roadmaps - Multiple methods of prioritisation - All use same data * customer feedback * analytics * business objectives - Don't be driven by sales - Look for trends in feedback & solve the underlying issue - MVF for real unknowns - minimise what you need to build to learn whether you have a compelling solution
- Cargo cult behaviour creeping in - PM is not formulaic
- Success comes from learning as fast as possible - Failure is becoming fetishised - The faster you learn the less failures you have to do so less resources used - The faster you learn the faster you will reach the goal of a sustainable business