Our final class will cover what is expected of a product manager, including the skills, responsibilities and key activities product managers must perform.
This class will introduce the idea of a scientific approach to product development. We’ll focus on how to make sure we build products customers love, starting with how to frame hypotheses and perform user research.
This class will present hypothesis-driven development, the cutting-edge paradigm for evolving validated products. We’ll dive into how to frame hypotheses, design experiments, and use A/B testing to gather data to prove or disprove our ideas.
Despite rumours to the contrary, there are planning activities in the agile model. In this class we’ll discuss how to plan releases, and present story mapping and impact mapping as effective tools for design, ideation and planning.
In our first class, we’ll discuss the various characteristics and types of products, paying particular attention to the product lifecycle. We’ll introduce the idea of a business model, and discuss the various risks that products might face in different parts of the product lifecycle. We’ll review a brief history of project and product management, and discuss the differences between the two.
This class will discuss how to build effective product development teams. We’ll discuss the lifecycle of teams, recruiting, effective line management including how to motivate and develop your people, and practice conflict resolution techniques.
Lean UX + UX Strat, from UX Strat conference, September 2013Joshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at UX Strat, 2013. (www.uxstrat.com)
How to use Lean UX methods to execute on business, product, and design strategy.
I presented a slightly altered version a few days later at Fluxible 2013. (http://www.fluxible.ca)
Scrum and Kanban are frameworks designed to help manage work and perform process improvement at the team level. In this class we will explore Scrum, Kanban, and what XP has to say about work management. We’ll discuss the key practices involved in applying these frameworks, the differences between them, and which situations to use them in.
Presentation from putitout event at Decoded London. Outlines the change to product development process to test ideas early through Lean and UX methods.
This class will introduce the idea of a scientific approach to product development. We’ll focus on how to make sure we build products customers love, starting with how to frame hypotheses and perform user research.
This class will present hypothesis-driven development, the cutting-edge paradigm for evolving validated products. We’ll dive into how to frame hypotheses, design experiments, and use A/B testing to gather data to prove or disprove our ideas.
Despite rumours to the contrary, there are planning activities in the agile model. In this class we’ll discuss how to plan releases, and present story mapping and impact mapping as effective tools for design, ideation and planning.
In our first class, we’ll discuss the various characteristics and types of products, paying particular attention to the product lifecycle. We’ll introduce the idea of a business model, and discuss the various risks that products might face in different parts of the product lifecycle. We’ll review a brief history of project and product management, and discuss the differences between the two.
This class will discuss how to build effective product development teams. We’ll discuss the lifecycle of teams, recruiting, effective line management including how to motivate and develop your people, and practice conflict resolution techniques.
Lean UX + UX Strat, from UX Strat conference, September 2013Joshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at UX Strat, 2013. (www.uxstrat.com)
How to use Lean UX methods to execute on business, product, and design strategy.
I presented a slightly altered version a few days later at Fluxible 2013. (http://www.fluxible.ca)
Scrum and Kanban are frameworks designed to help manage work and perform process improvement at the team level. In this class we will explore Scrum, Kanban, and what XP has to say about work management. We’ll discuss the key practices involved in applying these frameworks, the differences between them, and which situations to use them in.
Presentation from putitout event at Decoded London. Outlines the change to product development process to test ideas early through Lean and UX methods.
At heart, Lean is about working to create resilient, adaptive organizations. Crucially, the work of getting better is never done. In this class we’ll try out techniques for continuous improvement from the Lean management philosophy including retrospectives and the improvement kata, and discuss how to apply them in the context of product development.
Eric Ries, Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup500 Startups
Presentation by Eric Ries (Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup) at the 'Lean Startup, Lean Investor' event on November 3, 2010 (Produced by 500 Startups & Nokia/Nokia Growth Partners)
Continuous Delivery Sounds Great but it Won't Work HereJez Humble
Since the Continuous Delivery book came out in 2010, it's gone from being a controversial idea to a commonplace... until you consider that many people who say they are doing it aren't really, and there are still plenty of places that consider it crazy talk.
In this session Jez will present some of the highlights and lowlights of the past six years listening to people explain why continuous delivery won't work, and what he learned in the process.
User Experience in a Rapidly Changing World, for ISA '13, Recife BrazilJoshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at Interaction South America, Recife, Brazil, November 15, 2013.
Software is eating the world. Thanks to newly mature platforms, techniques and infrastructure, teams are moving faster than ever before. So how do you design software in this world, a world of continuous integration, deployment and delivery?
A Designer's Introduction to Lean StartupJoshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at Interaction '13. (Video is here: http://wp.me/pYa2H-4p)
* What is Lean Startup?
* What does it mean for Designers?
** Work with a motivated community of entrepreneurs
** Answering new questions
** Designing experiments (not just products)
My slides from my talk at Agile Austin, March 2013. The talk covered key concepts from the book "Lean UX", written by Jeff Gothelf and me, and available here: www.leanuxbook.com
Sense & Respond: Book Review & Panel DiscussionTremis Skeete
A seen on the "Product Thinking NYC" meetup page:
Join us at Alpha as we do a deep dive into the book entitled:
"Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously", written by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
The End of Assembly Line Management
We’re in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people’s behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders.
This is no mere tech issue. The transformation requires a complete rethinking of the way we organize and manage work. And, as software becomes ever more integrated into every product and service, making this big shift is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. We need a management model that doesn’t merely account for, but actually embraces, continuous change. Yet the truth is, most organizations continue to rely on outmoded, industrial-era operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have.
Our Guest Panelists Include:
- Chul Kwon, Head of Product at InterviewJet
- Jordan Bergtraum, Management Consultant (formerly VP of Product Management at ServiceChannel)
- Jenine Lurie, Director, Innovation by Design at Genpact
- Nis Frome, Co-Founder & Content Lead, Alpha
Design Bootcamp Asia's 5th series
#5 - Design on-the-go: Start-ups shift the paradigm of design & research
Design on-the-go.
Start-ups shift the paradigm of Product Design and Research.
Speed matters in a startup world. In this event, we will be discussing about responding to its speed, and how it shifts the paradigm of the way we design and research in a startup world. You will gain a number of insights from two amazing product design team in Singapore, and learn about what it means to have a startup mindset as a design professional.
Agenda:
• Opening & Intro by Julee (Organizer) & Trechelle (Hyper Island)
• UX research at Grab by Feng Yi Yu, Senior UX Researcher at Grab
• Effective mobile design prototyping by Miguel Saballa, a Product Design Lead at honestbee
Uniting product development, business strategy, and agile software practices.
Covers thinking about product development wholistically from a customer-first perspective. Suggests good principles for established companies and boostrappers.
Lean UX: Getting out of the deliverables businessJeff Gothelf
This is an expanded presentation detailing how to focus on leaner user experience design methods and reducing the amount of deliverables in your work. It advocates focusing on the actual experience being created and not the deliverable itself as the end state of a project by reducing waste and choosing the right tool at the right time at the right depth. See also bit.ly/LeanUX
Changing business of testing - Testing Assembly Helsinki 2014Vasco Duarte
Testing jobs will move to cheaper countries unless the role of testing changes. This is a trend that is happening already, we see large teams of testers being moved to other countries, simply because it is cheaper to do bad testing there!
Testing is a critical part of the product and software development process, and if we don't change its role it will slowly become obsolete. The fact is, that the traditional view of testing endangers testing jobs: now here, and later also in cheaper countries.
I propose a different view of testing. I propose that testing is about enabling business results, not just technical quality. I propose that the tester's job goes far beyond finding issues to track, but also finding users to acquire, finding methods to succeed in the software business. Testing in my view is about making businesses succeed, not about avoid failures in software.
In this presentation I'll describe how a very simple change can profoundly transform the role of testing in a way that it directly enables and supports our businesses! Testing is about making our businesses succeed!
The road ahead is not easy, and not every tester is ready to embrace this view of testing. But the road ahead is inevitable. And we have to start on that journey now!
Continuous Learning and Delivery @ DPM Summit 2013Joshua Seiden
Slides from my talk / discussion at the Digital Project Management Summit, Oct 15, 2013. How do we manage "projects" when we work with software, a medium that is continuous in nature.
This class presents the idea of using economic frameworks for portfolio and project management. We’ll begin with an overview of the three horizons model, and discuss the economic models that are suitable in each horizon. We’ll then discuss and experiment with economic tools that can be applied in each horizon, including the Value of Information, Monte Carlo and Cost of Delay.
Most of us believe that the more we learn the more we grow. Harrison however believes that one of the most important forms of growth we can undertake is unlearning. All learning we do, in a sense involves unlearning. The more we can unlearn, the more likely we are to experience the sense of growth and progress we so desire.
At heart, Lean is about working to create resilient, adaptive organizations. Crucially, the work of getting better is never done. In this class we’ll try out techniques for continuous improvement from the Lean management philosophy including retrospectives and the improvement kata, and discuss how to apply them in the context of product development.
Eric Ries, Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup500 Startups
Presentation by Eric Ries (Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup) at the 'Lean Startup, Lean Investor' event on November 3, 2010 (Produced by 500 Startups & Nokia/Nokia Growth Partners)
Continuous Delivery Sounds Great but it Won't Work HereJez Humble
Since the Continuous Delivery book came out in 2010, it's gone from being a controversial idea to a commonplace... until you consider that many people who say they are doing it aren't really, and there are still plenty of places that consider it crazy talk.
In this session Jez will present some of the highlights and lowlights of the past six years listening to people explain why continuous delivery won't work, and what he learned in the process.
User Experience in a Rapidly Changing World, for ISA '13, Recife BrazilJoshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at Interaction South America, Recife, Brazil, November 15, 2013.
Software is eating the world. Thanks to newly mature platforms, techniques and infrastructure, teams are moving faster than ever before. So how do you design software in this world, a world of continuous integration, deployment and delivery?
A Designer's Introduction to Lean StartupJoshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at Interaction '13. (Video is here: http://wp.me/pYa2H-4p)
* What is Lean Startup?
* What does it mean for Designers?
** Work with a motivated community of entrepreneurs
** Answering new questions
** Designing experiments (not just products)
My slides from my talk at Agile Austin, March 2013. The talk covered key concepts from the book "Lean UX", written by Jeff Gothelf and me, and available here: www.leanuxbook.com
Sense & Respond: Book Review & Panel DiscussionTremis Skeete
A seen on the "Product Thinking NYC" meetup page:
Join us at Alpha as we do a deep dive into the book entitled:
"Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously", written by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
The End of Assembly Line Management
We’re in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people’s behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders.
This is no mere tech issue. The transformation requires a complete rethinking of the way we organize and manage work. And, as software becomes ever more integrated into every product and service, making this big shift is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. We need a management model that doesn’t merely account for, but actually embraces, continuous change. Yet the truth is, most organizations continue to rely on outmoded, industrial-era operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have.
Our Guest Panelists Include:
- Chul Kwon, Head of Product at InterviewJet
- Jordan Bergtraum, Management Consultant (formerly VP of Product Management at ServiceChannel)
- Jenine Lurie, Director, Innovation by Design at Genpact
- Nis Frome, Co-Founder & Content Lead, Alpha
Design Bootcamp Asia's 5th series
#5 - Design on-the-go: Start-ups shift the paradigm of design & research
Design on-the-go.
Start-ups shift the paradigm of Product Design and Research.
Speed matters in a startup world. In this event, we will be discussing about responding to its speed, and how it shifts the paradigm of the way we design and research in a startup world. You will gain a number of insights from two amazing product design team in Singapore, and learn about what it means to have a startup mindset as a design professional.
Agenda:
• Opening & Intro by Julee (Organizer) & Trechelle (Hyper Island)
• UX research at Grab by Feng Yi Yu, Senior UX Researcher at Grab
• Effective mobile design prototyping by Miguel Saballa, a Product Design Lead at honestbee
Uniting product development, business strategy, and agile software practices.
Covers thinking about product development wholistically from a customer-first perspective. Suggests good principles for established companies and boostrappers.
Lean UX: Getting out of the deliverables businessJeff Gothelf
This is an expanded presentation detailing how to focus on leaner user experience design methods and reducing the amount of deliverables in your work. It advocates focusing on the actual experience being created and not the deliverable itself as the end state of a project by reducing waste and choosing the right tool at the right time at the right depth. See also bit.ly/LeanUX
Changing business of testing - Testing Assembly Helsinki 2014Vasco Duarte
Testing jobs will move to cheaper countries unless the role of testing changes. This is a trend that is happening already, we see large teams of testers being moved to other countries, simply because it is cheaper to do bad testing there!
Testing is a critical part of the product and software development process, and if we don't change its role it will slowly become obsolete. The fact is, that the traditional view of testing endangers testing jobs: now here, and later also in cheaper countries.
I propose a different view of testing. I propose that testing is about enabling business results, not just technical quality. I propose that the tester's job goes far beyond finding issues to track, but also finding users to acquire, finding methods to succeed in the software business. Testing in my view is about making businesses succeed, not about avoid failures in software.
In this presentation I'll describe how a very simple change can profoundly transform the role of testing in a way that it directly enables and supports our businesses! Testing is about making our businesses succeed!
The road ahead is not easy, and not every tester is ready to embrace this view of testing. But the road ahead is inevitable. And we have to start on that journey now!
Continuous Learning and Delivery @ DPM Summit 2013Joshua Seiden
Slides from my talk / discussion at the Digital Project Management Summit, Oct 15, 2013. How do we manage "projects" when we work with software, a medium that is continuous in nature.
This class presents the idea of using economic frameworks for portfolio and project management. We’ll begin with an overview of the three horizons model, and discuss the economic models that are suitable in each horizon. We’ll then discuss and experiment with economic tools that can be applied in each horizon, including the Value of Information, Monte Carlo and Cost of Delay.
Most of us believe that the more we learn the more we grow. Harrison however believes that one of the most important forms of growth we can undertake is unlearning. All learning we do, in a sense involves unlearning. The more we can unlearn, the more likely we are to experience the sense of growth and progress we so desire.
Based on my book Write Like You Talk Only Better, I talked to students about unlearning academic style writing, learning to shorten and avoid spinach in their teeth and relearn the magic of storytelling.
Agile India 2017 Conference is Asia's Largest and Premier Conference on Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Lean, Kanban, DevOps, Enterprise Agile, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, Research and Patterns. Get to meet pioneers and expert practitioners from around the world on Agile Mindset, Scaling Agility, Lean Product Discovery, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. 6 - 12 March 2017 at ITC Gardenia, Bangalore. More details: http://2017.agileindia.org
“Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.” - Marty Rubin
So your organization has embarked upon a transformation to be more nimble and responsive by employing the latest tools and thinking in the Agile and DevOps arena. In this transformational context, how do you know that your initiatives are effective? Empirical measurements should provide insights on business value flow and delivery efficiency, allowing teams and organizations to see how they are progressing toward achieving their goals, but all too often we find ourselves mired in measurement traps that don't quite provide the right guidance in steering our efforts.
Rooted in contemporary thinking and tested in practice, this talk explores the principles of good measurement, what to measure, what not to measure, and enumerates some key metrics to help guide and inform our Agile and DevOps efforts. If done right, metrics can present a true picture of performance, and any progression, digression of these metrics can drive learning and improvement.
It is our hope that this session inspires organizations and teams to start or take a fresh look at implementing a valuable measurement program.
PDF, audio, and voiceover are now available on designintechreport.wordpress.com
Today’s most beloved technology products and services balance design and engineering in a way that perfectly blends form and function. Businesses started by designers have created billions of dollars of value, are raising billions in capital, and VC firms increasingly see the importance of design. The third annual Design in Tech Report examines how design trends are revolutionizing the entrepreneurial and corporate ecosystems in tech. This report covers related M&A activity, new patterns in creativity × business, and the rise of computational design.
Presented at Ford's 2017 Global IT Learning Summit (GLITS)Ron Lazaro
Presentation Details: The best way to think about product discovery is to think about it in relation to product delivery. It's not possible to build a product without doing both discovery and delivery. Discovery encompasses all the activities that we do to decide what to build. It includes all the decisions we make to decide what to build next, whereas delivery is all the activities we do to write code, package releases, ship products. It's how we deliver value to our customers.
Key takeaway for the participants will be to help them understand the difference between Product Discovery and Product Delivery and how to apply techniques in doing both.
Short summary of guest lecture to students of the “Master of Information Management” program of the Tias Nimbas Business School, on how Philips IT participates in developing new digital propositions in co-creation with our Philips businesses. About innovation, transformation, new approaches and core competences.
How GenAI will (not) change your business?Marlon Dumas
Not all new technology waves are the same. Some waves are vertical (3D printing, digital twins, blockchain) while others are horizontal (the PC in the 80s, the Web in the 90s). GenAI is a horizontal wave. The question is not if GenAI will impact my business, but what will be the scope of this impact. In this talk, we will go through a journey of collisions: GenAI colliding with customer service, clerical work, information search, content production, IT development, product design, and other knowledge work. A common thread to understand the impact of GenAI is to distinguish between descriptive use cases (search, summarize, expand, transcribe & translate) versus creative use.
Communication Strategies to Keep Employees Engaged and Informed During a Chronic Crisis
View the webinar here: https://youtu.be/2frLDn5C_zs
As the new normal continues to evolve, companies are being challenged daily to keep employees engaged and informed while supporting their business operations. Throughout the pandemic, employees have demonstrated their adaptability in the face of remote working, unanticipated childcare needs, furloughs, and isolation. Many employers are realizing that effective employee communication is the key.
Join Mad*Pow Founder and Chief Experience Officer Amy Heymans and Beth Clauss, President, Small Potatoes Communications, to learn how they have helped clients engage their employees, strengthen their company culture and create a unified and informed employee community. The webinar will cover how organizations can create an employee communications strategy that helps employees weather the unique circumstances of a long-term, ongoing crisis, while navigating the treacherous waters of promoting productivity and profits during a pandemic.
Invest in builing the right thing with a formalized discovery process agilein...Anjali Leon
Do you have a nagging feeling that you may not be investing in building the right thing?
Do your products have features that are rarely or never used? Does it takes your organization the full investment of building and launching a product to validate an idea? Is your organization challenged with striking the right balance between the demands of a scalable, high-quality product and innovating on the most compelling problems and opportunities for your customers?
At Pearson Online & Blended Learning, we met these challenges head-on by creating and implementing a framework that includes early collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team and a light-weight process. Based on Design Thinking principles and practices, the framework effectively balances discovery and delivery efforts. It ensures that, across the portfolio, our investments are focused on the right things, and the efforts of our delivery teams are aligned to solving the most important problems for our customers and addressing the most valuable opportunities for our business.
In this interactive session, learn about this discovery framework, our implementation approach, and our triumphs and challenges. Each participant will have the opportunity to reflect on how a similar approach may help them address challenges within their own organizations.
Informal and Social Learning - Everyone is a Contributor!Michael Kada
Michael Kada presents the case for Informal Learning with respect to the explosion of information and knowledge and in comparison to other learning paradigms. The learning world is shifting very quickly to an informal / social learning approach and the case will be made why it is essential to for companies to adapt their learning approaches in this direction.
What Are the Product & Design Principles by FindMyPast PMProduct School
This presentation covers the complexities of working with products across the physical and software arena. We'll be covering how ideas and concepts become reality, how a PM works cross-functionally with multiple teams to keep a project flowing and how a PM continues to iterate and improve upon products after they've made it to consumers' hands.
Key Takeaways:
● Ideas that have proven to be successful in other world class companies
● Benchmarks, Prototypes, Data Driven Products
● Things the company has found to work through experimentation and continuous improvement
Aubrey Smith, Sparked Advisory
In this training, we will build on the foundation established in Lean Startup 101 and 201 by delving into examples and cases of the Lean Startup concepts in action. Attendees of Lean Startup 301 will be exposed to cutting edge work from thought leaders and experts using Lean Startup in practice today — at startups and within the enterprise. Participation in this session is essential: You will be asked to help design an MVP and experiment to test critical Leap of Faith Assumption(s) in groups and will be encourage to share experiences. The session is designed to allow attendees to stretch their skills and to push one-another to ‘learn by doing’. The session will also include:
Sample cases and live interviews with practitioners highlighting the application of core concepts;
Exercises designed to bring the concepts to life and challenge participants to deepen their skills;
Discussion of advanced topics such organizational culture and governance as well as industry-specific concepts such as using Lean Startup in heavily regulated markets.
Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.
In this article I will explore what I believe is a good foundation for building high quality software. I will cover a wide array of different topics which have in common that I believe they all contribute to this goal.
We talk a lot about "maximizing business value". We ask business people and product managers to prioritise by estimating the business value of user stories. But what exactly do we mean by business value?
Culture First 2019: Day 3, Living your values: tools to enhance the employee ...Culture Amp
In this presentation, At Your Core will guide people leaders and culture advocates on how to institutionalize their company core values across the employee experience, strengthening both the culture and the business. We’ll share examples of how relevant values and supporting behaviors, reinforced at different stages of the employee experience, drive engagement. You will leave with an action plan for hiring, recognizing and connecting with employees that puts the values at the forefront.
The Team Member and Guest Experience - Lead and Take Care of your restaurant team. They are the people closest to and delivering Hospitality to your paying Guests!
Make the call, and we can assist you.
408-784-7371
Foodservice Consulting + Design
Specific ServPoints should be tailored for restaurants in all food service segments. Your ServPoints should be the centerpiece of brand delivery training (guest service) and align with your brand position and marketing initiatives, especially in high-labor-cost conditions.
408-784-7371
Foodservice Consulting + Design
Public Speaking Tips to Help You Be A Strong Leader.pdfPinta Partners
In the realm of effective leadership, a multitude of skills come into play, but one stands out as both crucial and challenging: public speaking.
Public speaking transcends mere eloquence; it serves as the medium through which leaders articulate their vision, inspire action, and foster engagement. For leaders, refining public speaking skills is essential, elevating their ability to influence, persuade, and lead with resolute conviction. Here are some key tips to consider: https://joellandau.com/the-public-speaking-tips-to-help-you-be-a-stronger-leader/
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
Comparing Stability and Sustainability in Agile SystemsRob Healy
Copy of the presentation given at XP2024 based on a research paper.
In this paper we explain wat overwork is and the physical and mental health risks associated with it.
We then explore how overwork relates to system stability and inventory.
Finally there is a call to action for Team Leads / Scrum Masters / Managers to measure and monitor excess work for individual teams.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
2. what have we covered?
• history of project & product management
• economic frameworks
• user research
• agile software development
• experimental product development
• growing high performance teams
• process improvement
• innovation accounting
• product marketing
• venture capital
3. what haven’t we covered?
• customer management
• pricing
• competitive analysis
• how marketing and sales actually work
• compliance
• …
4.
5. growing feedback loops (including shipping!)
prioritization
creating alignment & stakeholder management
process improvement
people development
meta-jobs
6.
7. getting started
• Discover your team.
• What are they responsible for?
• What does success looks like to them?
• What do they expect from you?
• What people and resources do you have available to you?
• Set your own goals
• Inspect and adapt
8. Jack Andraka
His parents, he says, never really answered
any of the questions they had. Go figure it
out for yourself, they would say. “I got really
into the scientific method of developing a
hypothesis and testing it and getting a
result and going back to do it again.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/06/18/wait-did-this-15-year-old-from-maryland-just-change-cancer-treatment/
9. @jezhumble
Jack Andraka
“Make sure to be passionate
about whatever it is you get into,
because otherwise you won’t put
the right amount of work into it.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/06/18/wait-did-this-15-year-old-from-maryland-just-change-cancer-treatment/