Small companies do not have significant sales volumes to offset development cost. They must keep product development budgets reasonable, without sacrificing quality
Finish Line Product Development Services offers product development services to help small companies reliably manufacture prototypes at a reasonable cost. They recommend: 1) conducting design verification testing with an independent engineering team to identify issues; 2) ensuring documentation is complete for manufacturing; and 3) doing field testing with customers to identify early issues that can be addressed before large-scale production. Finish Line has experience helping over 300 small companies through the prototype to production process.
The prototype is all done and it seems to work well. Now, how do you get the prototype manufactured reliably and at a reasonable cost? If you're like a lot of small companies, this is not something you do all the time. Finish Line has done more than one thousand projects for more than 250 small companies and we have learned a few things in the process.
Storytelling: Building Trust as a Product Ldr by Klaviyo Sr PMProduct School
- Storytelling should be proactive: By crafting a strong story that you share early and reinforce often, you can eliminate the need for more heavy handed stakeholder management tactics.
- Storytelling should be planned: To own the end-to-end narrative about your product and how you work, you need to plan ahead and develop consistent themes that help you tell this story.
- Storytelling should be personal: Spend time learning who key stakeholders at your organization are, what each stakeholder group wants to hear, and how they want to hear it.
GROWTH PRACTICES - Cracking the PM Career - CHAPTER 7Amir Shokri
This document provides guidance on growth practices for product managers. It discusses several approaches to test hypotheses quickly such as using prototypes and A/B tests. It also discusses designing for sticky usage through notifications, updates, and gamification. The document advises building a product mindset by focusing on the problem to be solved. It recommends prioritizing goals and developing a quality bar by choosing issues to fix while keeping costs in mind. Finally, it suggests considering more radical solutions by expanding perspectives on team size, deadlines, partnerships, and business models.
gineering teams. This workshop will cover everything you need to know to work seamlessly with engineering teams that use agile principles and practices.
What you will learn:
• Basics of the agile methods.
• Tips you can apply the very next day at work.
• Actionable tools and tactics to handle different product team scenarios that a product manager face.
Who is this workshop for:
• Software engineers who want to transition to Product Management
• MBAs with a finance/consulting background who want to work in high-tech companies as a Product Manager
• Project Managers, Marketers, Designers who are seeking for new opportunities in Product Management
Main takeaways:
- Having a computer science degree isn't required but a thirst for technical knowledge absolutely is
- It's all about connection vs conviction - knowing when to put on which hat will go a long way in building trust with your engineering colleagues
- Proactively ask for help - you'll be surprised how much wisdom your colleagues are willing to share
CEOs best practices to win time back & focus on what mattersTheFamily
30% of executives' time is spent on low-value or delegable tasks. The document provides tips for remote CEOs to save time, including setting focus time with notifications turned off, communicating asynchronously through organized tools, limiting distractions from emails and notifications, establishing routines, planning the week in advance, and regularly reviewing time spent. The overall message is that working remotely requires being intentional with how time is spent each day and week.
Baby steps and why it's more important than your code skillsRamon Victor
"In this talk I'd like to explain why many startups fail when trying to build a product with fancy code and a "scalable" solution before learning what business/design needs they're trying to solve. Actually, it's not only for startups, it's also for you, as designer or developer. Why we should understand our ideas is more likely to fail than succeed? This is for sure much more important than learning Material Design, ReactJS or any other buzzword of our field."
This talk was given at http://frontinamsterdam.nl/
Finish Line Product Development Services offers product development services to help small companies reliably manufacture prototypes at a reasonable cost. They recommend: 1) conducting design verification testing with an independent engineering team to identify issues; 2) ensuring documentation is complete for manufacturing; and 3) doing field testing with customers to identify early issues that can be addressed before large-scale production. Finish Line has experience helping over 300 small companies through the prototype to production process.
The prototype is all done and it seems to work well. Now, how do you get the prototype manufactured reliably and at a reasonable cost? If you're like a lot of small companies, this is not something you do all the time. Finish Line has done more than one thousand projects for more than 250 small companies and we have learned a few things in the process.
Storytelling: Building Trust as a Product Ldr by Klaviyo Sr PMProduct School
- Storytelling should be proactive: By crafting a strong story that you share early and reinforce often, you can eliminate the need for more heavy handed stakeholder management tactics.
- Storytelling should be planned: To own the end-to-end narrative about your product and how you work, you need to plan ahead and develop consistent themes that help you tell this story.
- Storytelling should be personal: Spend time learning who key stakeholders at your organization are, what each stakeholder group wants to hear, and how they want to hear it.
GROWTH PRACTICES - Cracking the PM Career - CHAPTER 7Amir Shokri
This document provides guidance on growth practices for product managers. It discusses several approaches to test hypotheses quickly such as using prototypes and A/B tests. It also discusses designing for sticky usage through notifications, updates, and gamification. The document advises building a product mindset by focusing on the problem to be solved. It recommends prioritizing goals and developing a quality bar by choosing issues to fix while keeping costs in mind. Finally, it suggests considering more radical solutions by expanding perspectives on team size, deadlines, partnerships, and business models.
gineering teams. This workshop will cover everything you need to know to work seamlessly with engineering teams that use agile principles and practices.
What you will learn:
• Basics of the agile methods.
• Tips you can apply the very next day at work.
• Actionable tools and tactics to handle different product team scenarios that a product manager face.
Who is this workshop for:
• Software engineers who want to transition to Product Management
• MBAs with a finance/consulting background who want to work in high-tech companies as a Product Manager
• Project Managers, Marketers, Designers who are seeking for new opportunities in Product Management
Main takeaways:
- Having a computer science degree isn't required but a thirst for technical knowledge absolutely is
- It's all about connection vs conviction - knowing when to put on which hat will go a long way in building trust with your engineering colleagues
- Proactively ask for help - you'll be surprised how much wisdom your colleagues are willing to share
CEOs best practices to win time back & focus on what mattersTheFamily
30% of executives' time is spent on low-value or delegable tasks. The document provides tips for remote CEOs to save time, including setting focus time with notifications turned off, communicating asynchronously through organized tools, limiting distractions from emails and notifications, establishing routines, planning the week in advance, and regularly reviewing time spent. The overall message is that working remotely requires being intentional with how time is spent each day and week.
Baby steps and why it's more important than your code skillsRamon Victor
"In this talk I'd like to explain why many startups fail when trying to build a product with fancy code and a "scalable" solution before learning what business/design needs they're trying to solve. Actually, it's not only for startups, it's also for you, as designer or developer. Why we should understand our ideas is more likely to fail than succeed? This is for sure much more important than learning Material Design, ReactJS or any other buzzword of our field."
This talk was given at http://frontinamsterdam.nl/
Understanding Iterative Prioritization by Pivotal Labs Senior PMProduct School
- Overview of a repeatable approach to iterative prioritization, regardless of the size/type/lifecycle of your product
- Understanding of how to apply the approach autonomously AND using stakeholder feedback
- Workshop style practice applying the approach
Launching a New Product in Established Company by Microsoft PM DirProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- How you can identify and validate problems to solve and scope a market opportunity
- How to pitch to your internal investors (your GMs & VPs)
- How to take your idea to market and validate product-market fit
3 Insights for Consumerization of the Enterprisesaastr
Success in the Enterprise means ensuring consumerization is a part of your strategy. Scott Belsky, CPO, EVP of Creative Cloud at Adobe will explore key tactics to focusing on the user experience.
How to Learn PM by Doing it in Your Current Role by Hulu Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Product management covers a huge range of skill sets so whatever you're doing today will be a tool in your future chest
-Every company has product management gaps that you can fill today, you just need to find them
-You can learn a lot of relevant PM skills on your own outside of work and bring them into your day to day creativeMain
IdeaClouds transforms online meetings (with low
participation) into short high-productive digital workshops. DIGITAL WORKSHOP: Real-time team collaboration combined
with a result-oriented lean workshop process.
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
What Not to Do as a Product Manager by Charter Communications PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- A lively talk of actionable ways to build better products, faster
- Hear operational and cultural things a PM does that slows improvements, and why
- Learn ideas for better ways to do things from someone obsessed with progress
How to stay productive and find time to do deep work as a product managerJeremy Horn
Slides Chris Butler recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
Synopsis: All product managers need to link the high-level challenge they are solving with the day-to-day. How do you keep them connected and in sync when there are different disciplines and stakeholders involved on each level? During this talk, we will review the process and method by which you align the three key components of product planning.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
http://TheProductMentor.com
FITC events. For digital creators.
Save 10% off ANY FITC event with discount code 'slideshare'
See our upcoming events at www.fitc.ca
Process with Daniel Schutzsmith
Process is important. Sure, as hackers and creatives we might get by for some time on our eccentric ideas and skills, but the reality is that, as a business, we need to define and continually refine our processes to ensure continued growth and quality.
In this workshop we’ll examine what kinds of processes are used in the web and design industries, the tools they use, create an outline of your own process as well as a milestone calendar to make sure you complete it after the day has concluded.
We’ll laugh, we might cry, but most importantly we’ll grow our understanding and skills to create a process that can help our companies right now.
OBJECTIVE
Provide attendees with a clear path to documenting and refining their business’ process for growth.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Freelancers and smallish Studio Managers / Owners under 50 people.
ASSUMED AUDIENCE KNOWLEDGE
Have used tools like Wikis, Google Docs, and Blogging before.
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
An understanding of the reasons process is so important in business.
An outline of what they’re reasons are for defining the process.
An outline of the tools and methodologies they’ll use to define the process.
A deeper understanding of how some creative studios and agencies define their process.
A rough outline of their process / A calendar of milestones set towards completing their process
SCHEDULE
10:00 – 10:15am Welcome and Outline
10:15 – 10:45am Why Process?
10:45 – 11:00am Activity: What are your reasons for defining a process?
11:00 – 11:30am The Importance of a Process Team by Hoss Gifford
11:30 – 12:00pm Activity: Define Your Process Team
12:00 – 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00 – 1:30pm Jason Theodor
1:30 – 2:00pm Activity: Managing Project Flow by Caroline McGregor
2:00 – 2:30pm Tools and Methodologies For Your Process
2:30 – 3:00pm Activity: Choose the Tools You’ll Use to Define Your Process
3:00 – 3:30pm Customizing Your Process by Tom Walsham
3:30 – 4:00pm Activity: Define The Methodologies For Your Process
4:00 – 4:30pm Planning Your Process Documentation
4:30 – 5:00pm Activity: Create a Calendar to Define Your Process
Prioritising Everything: Making Decisions When Nothing Makes Sense w/ John Si...TheFamily
The convention in startupland is that moving fast, putting in the energy, time and work are the guiding principles that yield results - and ultimately growth. While these are key factors in how we prioritise experiments and make decisions, there's one element missing - direction. What's often ignored in the prioritisation process are the vectors of velocity, momentum, and lift as they relate to how we decide what to do next.
Choosing the 'right' thing to experiment on
-Litmus tests for understanding the health of users
-Strategies for product scoping, and growth
-Arriving to the right metrics
Being comfortable with change
-Knowing team and what brings them energy
-The evolution of processes over time
-Growing product, team, culture, and community in flux
Coming to conclusions and the next choice
-Reflection and retrospectives
-Learning to say "No" or, "Not right now"
-Picking the next thing to work/experiment on
John Sirisuth, Head of Growth at OurPath, joined us at The Family to share his early insights on leading Growth, prioritising experiments, and creating a company culture where Growth is all-hands-on-deck.
Qual vs. Quant: Using data to Build Better Productsuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to use quantitative and qualitative data for decisionmaking
- How to create and validate your hypotheses
- How to evaluate solutions to product problems
1. The document outlines 10 things that make a good project manager great, including following a process, asking for a mentor, surrounding oneself with tools, using templates to save time, planning, communicating the plan with stakeholders, managing and tracking the project, managing issues and risks, creating progress reports, and delivering the final product.
2. Key aspects include following an established project management process, seeking a mentor for advice and guidance, using software and templates to efficiently plan and manage projects, creating detailed plans and getting stakeholder approval, regularly tracking progress and addressing any issues, providing updates on status, and completing the project deliverables.
3. Effective project managers plan thoroughly, communicate well with stakeholders, monitor progress closely and solve
This document discusses an missing agile principle related to validating value. It argues that UX should focus on measuring results and business value, not just customer needs and design. The author proposes a new "Agile UX Principle" - that work does not end at product shipment but must continue to validate that value has been created. Owners need to think holistically about products and value in order to earn a seat at the table and focus on outcomes rather than outputs or requirements.
The document discusses how a project manager should regularly assess project agility by asking themselves questions about changes, customer needs, blocking issues, team stress levels, progress tracking, potential issues, risk levels, and management status updates. Some key questions include determining the impact of changes, if customer needs are being met, identifying and resolving blocking issues, noticing signs of team stress, monitoring progress, looking for emerging issues, and gauging overall risk level. Strong communication with teams and management is important for making adjustments that keep the project on track.
How to Build Accessible Products by Slack Accessibility PMProduct School
The document discusses how product managers can help build accessible products. It recommends that product managers: 1) Define the product type, core function, and 1-2 accessibility experiences to focus on; 2) Leverage strengths like their team, organization's processes, user research with people with disabilities, and high impact accessibility areas; and 3) Craft the accessibility experience by specifying it and testing against that specification rather than just fixing accessibility bugs. The presentation encourages product managers to view accessibility as an experience to design and specifies an example of how to craft the keyboard navigation experience for an accessible messaging product.
This 1-hour workshop marries the best practices from product strategy with those of fast and efficient technology teamwork and delivery. You’ll learn how to get your product organization working as a single cohesive, well-oiled machine to deliver the right product to market as quickly as possible. We will cover how to use both qualitative and quantitative measures to ensure that your product is solving the right problem; how to optimize and streamline the way your team designs, builds, and deploys software to your customers; and, how to beat the competition in strategy and execution.
Tom Howlett A managers guide to working with self organising teamsAgileCymru
An agile team that finds its groove is precious. A group of smart diverse people, passionate about their shared purpose, openly collaborating and continually experimenting can do amazing things. They don’t need managing in the traditional sense so what can leaders/managers who work with these teams do to help them?
In this workshop we’ll explore how managers can add huge amount of value to self-managing teams without compromising their creativity and spirit.
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
This document discusses how Scrum can fail if not implemented properly. It lists behaviors that could lead to Scrum failure, such as not fully understanding Scrum values, changing rules without reason, destroying transparency, ignoring quality practices, and staying away from customers. It emphasizes that success or failure depends on how individuals use Scrum, not on Scrum itself. The document is from an agile consulting company promoting proper Scrum usage.
Different ways to pay for product development presentationSteve Owens
Sometimes it is just as important to know what not to do as it is to know what to do. Ignoring Product Development will result in your business going away.
Different ways to pay for product development presentationSteve Owens
Different Ways to Pay for Product Development
There are many more ways to pay for product development than you may realize, including not paying for it at all. What is right for your situation will depend on your exact circumstances. You may wish to review the following before starting your next product development project
The competition is very high in the software or digital business
space, and you can’t leave room for any form of error. A QA
consultant is of utmost importance to you!
To know more about QA consulting, visit: https://www.kiwiqa.com/test-center-consulting.html
Understanding Iterative Prioritization by Pivotal Labs Senior PMProduct School
- Overview of a repeatable approach to iterative prioritization, regardless of the size/type/lifecycle of your product
- Understanding of how to apply the approach autonomously AND using stakeholder feedback
- Workshop style practice applying the approach
Launching a New Product in Established Company by Microsoft PM DirProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- How you can identify and validate problems to solve and scope a market opportunity
- How to pitch to your internal investors (your GMs & VPs)
- How to take your idea to market and validate product-market fit
3 Insights for Consumerization of the Enterprisesaastr
Success in the Enterprise means ensuring consumerization is a part of your strategy. Scott Belsky, CPO, EVP of Creative Cloud at Adobe will explore key tactics to focusing on the user experience.
How to Learn PM by Doing it in Your Current Role by Hulu Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Product management covers a huge range of skill sets so whatever you're doing today will be a tool in your future chest
-Every company has product management gaps that you can fill today, you just need to find them
-You can learn a lot of relevant PM skills on your own outside of work and bring them into your day to day creativeMain
IdeaClouds transforms online meetings (with low
participation) into short high-productive digital workshops. DIGITAL WORKSHOP: Real-time team collaboration combined
with a result-oriented lean workshop process.
Scaling Your Role as a PM in a Large Organization by Google PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- An Engineer as a PM is as powerful as a PM who has a technical background
- Enabling the org to become PMs has the potential to reduce some but not all technical, research inefficiencies
- You succeed with a combination of good upper-management leadership and data-driven teams
What Not to Do as a Product Manager by Charter Communications PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- A lively talk of actionable ways to build better products, faster
- Hear operational and cultural things a PM does that slows improvements, and why
- Learn ideas for better ways to do things from someone obsessed with progress
How to stay productive and find time to do deep work as a product managerJeremy Horn
Slides Chris Butler recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
Synopsis: All product managers need to link the high-level challenge they are solving with the day-to-day. How do you keep them connected and in sync when there are different disciplines and stakeholders involved on each level? During this talk, we will review the process and method by which you align the three key components of product planning.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
http://TheProductMentor.com
FITC events. For digital creators.
Save 10% off ANY FITC event with discount code 'slideshare'
See our upcoming events at www.fitc.ca
Process with Daniel Schutzsmith
Process is important. Sure, as hackers and creatives we might get by for some time on our eccentric ideas and skills, but the reality is that, as a business, we need to define and continually refine our processes to ensure continued growth and quality.
In this workshop we’ll examine what kinds of processes are used in the web and design industries, the tools they use, create an outline of your own process as well as a milestone calendar to make sure you complete it after the day has concluded.
We’ll laugh, we might cry, but most importantly we’ll grow our understanding and skills to create a process that can help our companies right now.
OBJECTIVE
Provide attendees with a clear path to documenting and refining their business’ process for growth.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Freelancers and smallish Studio Managers / Owners under 50 people.
ASSUMED AUDIENCE KNOWLEDGE
Have used tools like Wikis, Google Docs, and Blogging before.
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
An understanding of the reasons process is so important in business.
An outline of what they’re reasons are for defining the process.
An outline of the tools and methodologies they’ll use to define the process.
A deeper understanding of how some creative studios and agencies define their process.
A rough outline of their process / A calendar of milestones set towards completing their process
SCHEDULE
10:00 – 10:15am Welcome and Outline
10:15 – 10:45am Why Process?
10:45 – 11:00am Activity: What are your reasons for defining a process?
11:00 – 11:30am The Importance of a Process Team by Hoss Gifford
11:30 – 12:00pm Activity: Define Your Process Team
12:00 – 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00 – 1:30pm Jason Theodor
1:30 – 2:00pm Activity: Managing Project Flow by Caroline McGregor
2:00 – 2:30pm Tools and Methodologies For Your Process
2:30 – 3:00pm Activity: Choose the Tools You’ll Use to Define Your Process
3:00 – 3:30pm Customizing Your Process by Tom Walsham
3:30 – 4:00pm Activity: Define The Methodologies For Your Process
4:00 – 4:30pm Planning Your Process Documentation
4:30 – 5:00pm Activity: Create a Calendar to Define Your Process
Prioritising Everything: Making Decisions When Nothing Makes Sense w/ John Si...TheFamily
The convention in startupland is that moving fast, putting in the energy, time and work are the guiding principles that yield results - and ultimately growth. While these are key factors in how we prioritise experiments and make decisions, there's one element missing - direction. What's often ignored in the prioritisation process are the vectors of velocity, momentum, and lift as they relate to how we decide what to do next.
Choosing the 'right' thing to experiment on
-Litmus tests for understanding the health of users
-Strategies for product scoping, and growth
-Arriving to the right metrics
Being comfortable with change
-Knowing team and what brings them energy
-The evolution of processes over time
-Growing product, team, culture, and community in flux
Coming to conclusions and the next choice
-Reflection and retrospectives
-Learning to say "No" or, "Not right now"
-Picking the next thing to work/experiment on
John Sirisuth, Head of Growth at OurPath, joined us at The Family to share his early insights on leading Growth, prioritising experiments, and creating a company culture where Growth is all-hands-on-deck.
Qual vs. Quant: Using data to Build Better Productsuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to use quantitative and qualitative data for decisionmaking
- How to create and validate your hypotheses
- How to evaluate solutions to product problems
1. The document outlines 10 things that make a good project manager great, including following a process, asking for a mentor, surrounding oneself with tools, using templates to save time, planning, communicating the plan with stakeholders, managing and tracking the project, managing issues and risks, creating progress reports, and delivering the final product.
2. Key aspects include following an established project management process, seeking a mentor for advice and guidance, using software and templates to efficiently plan and manage projects, creating detailed plans and getting stakeholder approval, regularly tracking progress and addressing any issues, providing updates on status, and completing the project deliverables.
3. Effective project managers plan thoroughly, communicate well with stakeholders, monitor progress closely and solve
This document discusses an missing agile principle related to validating value. It argues that UX should focus on measuring results and business value, not just customer needs and design. The author proposes a new "Agile UX Principle" - that work does not end at product shipment but must continue to validate that value has been created. Owners need to think holistically about products and value in order to earn a seat at the table and focus on outcomes rather than outputs or requirements.
The document discusses how a project manager should regularly assess project agility by asking themselves questions about changes, customer needs, blocking issues, team stress levels, progress tracking, potential issues, risk levels, and management status updates. Some key questions include determining the impact of changes, if customer needs are being met, identifying and resolving blocking issues, noticing signs of team stress, monitoring progress, looking for emerging issues, and gauging overall risk level. Strong communication with teams and management is important for making adjustments that keep the project on track.
How to Build Accessible Products by Slack Accessibility PMProduct School
The document discusses how product managers can help build accessible products. It recommends that product managers: 1) Define the product type, core function, and 1-2 accessibility experiences to focus on; 2) Leverage strengths like their team, organization's processes, user research with people with disabilities, and high impact accessibility areas; and 3) Craft the accessibility experience by specifying it and testing against that specification rather than just fixing accessibility bugs. The presentation encourages product managers to view accessibility as an experience to design and specifies an example of how to craft the keyboard navigation experience for an accessible messaging product.
This 1-hour workshop marries the best practices from product strategy with those of fast and efficient technology teamwork and delivery. You’ll learn how to get your product organization working as a single cohesive, well-oiled machine to deliver the right product to market as quickly as possible. We will cover how to use both qualitative and quantitative measures to ensure that your product is solving the right problem; how to optimize and streamline the way your team designs, builds, and deploys software to your customers; and, how to beat the competition in strategy and execution.
Tom Howlett A managers guide to working with self organising teamsAgileCymru
An agile team that finds its groove is precious. A group of smart diverse people, passionate about their shared purpose, openly collaborating and continually experimenting can do amazing things. They don’t need managing in the traditional sense so what can leaders/managers who work with these teams do to help them?
In this workshop we’ll explore how managers can add huge amount of value to self-managing teams without compromising their creativity and spirit.
Main takeaways:
- Learn what it takes to take an AI/ML product to market, and how to successfully land the value proposition of an emerging technology
- Learn how to build the right use-case scenarios for your product through customer empathy
- Learn what it's like in a "day in the life of" a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
This document discusses how Scrum can fail if not implemented properly. It lists behaviors that could lead to Scrum failure, such as not fully understanding Scrum values, changing rules without reason, destroying transparency, ignoring quality practices, and staying away from customers. It emphasizes that success or failure depends on how individuals use Scrum, not on Scrum itself. The document is from an agile consulting company promoting proper Scrum usage.
Different ways to pay for product development presentationSteve Owens
Sometimes it is just as important to know what not to do as it is to know what to do. Ignoring Product Development will result in your business going away.
Different ways to pay for product development presentationSteve Owens
Different Ways to Pay for Product Development
There are many more ways to pay for product development than you may realize, including not paying for it at all. What is right for your situation will depend on your exact circumstances. You may wish to review the following before starting your next product development project
The competition is very high in the software or digital business
space, and you can’t leave room for any form of error. A QA
consultant is of utmost importance to you!
To know more about QA consulting, visit: https://www.kiwiqa.com/test-center-consulting.html
There are two main approaches to product development - the "just do it" method and the "slow and methodical" method. The "just do it" approach focuses on quickly prototyping ideas, while the "slow and methodical" approach emphasizes careful planning and analysis. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages depending on the type of product and market. Lean startups benefit more from rapid prototyping, while mature markets do better taking a slower, more planned approach. Most successful projects combine elements from both ends of this continuum.
Finish Line Product development Process-2018Steve Owens
This document discusses product development for small companies. It begins by defining key terms like product, development, and process. It then outlines common myths and truths about product development. Some myths include thinking ideas can't be stolen or that outsourcing will be cheapest. Truths include having realistic budgets and schedules and that ideas must be proven to make money before others will steal them. The document then details the key stages of the product development process used by Finish Line PDS, including requirements documentation, conceptual design, detail design, testing, and pilot production. It stresses the importance of following a process to avoid failure and going over budget or timeline.
Bogdan Onyshchenko: Як стати кращим Продакт Менеджером? 11 порад з особистого...Lviv Startup Club
This document provides 11 tips for becoming a better product manager from personal experience. The tips include starting to say "no" to focus efforts, having a single product backlog as the source of truth, managing stakeholders effectively through grouping, being aware of company politics, being involved in many areas of product development, making decisions based on data and empirical evidence, delaying releases if work is unfinished, planning one's own agenda, focusing on the product success over personal success, and committing to continuous learning from mistakes.
Design Upstream: Advancing Strategic Design Without Going Against the CurrentChris Avore
This document discusses how to advance strategic design within an organization by enabling a culture change. It notes that design-averse cultures can lead to problems, while respectful collaboration empowers designers. The author advocates finding an advocate, establishing urgency, crafting a vision and story, communicating the future state, celebrating wins, and delivering results. Managers should facilitate introductions, share research, and connect design work to organizational goals. Building a design culture requires experimentation, innovation, learning, and quality. Credibility comes from delivery while vision provides access; changing culture is a process, not an event.
Software engineering for small product companiesRaman Kannan
The document discusses key factors for small product companies to achieve success. It emphasizes that success depends on having a good product or technology. It outlines that people, processes, and products are the most important assets of a company. It provides guidance on optimizing processes, empowering people, planning effectively, learning from mistakes, and engineering high quality products and technologies. The overall message is that with the right focus on people, processes, and products, small companies can leverage their strengths to create successful outcomes.
This chapter discusses strategies for in-house designers to effectively sell their services, explain their work, and demonstrate value. It provides tips on communicating what design work entails to non-experts, showing examples to clients, developing a mission statement, and measuring value through metrics like cost savings. The chapter also outlines creative strategies for managing budgets, time, resources, negotiation skills, and setting benchmarks within organizational constraints.
Lean Design Research - Why There’s No Excuse Wasting Money on Bad Products A...Dialexa
In the age of the consumer and consumerism of IT, there’s no question that design thinking is critical to new product success. The importance of design thinking has become so clear that there has been a surge in demand for design at the executive table.
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Highest quality code in your SaaS project. Why should you care about it as a ...The Codest
We are launching a SaaS report dedicated to the whole SaaS market.
It is a useful pill of knowledge for the non-technical founders who are struggling with many challenges, especially the technological ones. In the report, we cover the specific problems/dilemmas such as:
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Understand what design thinking is. Learn how to use design thinking in SAP, Oracle EBS projects to understand what your customers/users really need. Seize the business benefits and innovate.
1. Successful product development requires identifying customer needs and preferences to create products with appealing attributes at affordable prices.
2. Products must have distinguishing features or they will not last long on the market.
3. Involving sensory evaluators early in the development process allows products to be iteratively designed to incorporate improvements.
Understand what design thinking is. Learn how to use design thinking in SAP, Oracle EBS projects to understand what your customers/users really need. Seize the business benefits and innovate.
No startup business experiences the same journey to success, but there are general stages that most companies move through as they grow:
1) Validation
2) Product Development
3) Commercialization
4) Scale/Growth
The Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI) helps its clients through these stages of business development and offers best practices for each stage. Represented by an amazing lineup of speakers, including Hart Shafer (Innovation Coach / Founder, Theraspecs), Eric Miller (Principal, PADT Inc.), Nate Curran (Entrepreneur-in-Residence, CEI) and Russ Yelton (CEO, Pinnacle Transplant Technologies, "The Startup Lifecycle" presentation offers unique insights and best practices for entrepreneurs growing their business.
In the first of three presentations, Ali talks about leveraging existing sales and marketing resources and amassing them into a viable Web2Print selling machine. He covers the operational changes necessary to facilitate this pivot and talks about how to manage objections all the way up the hierarchy.
Also included are some top tips on identifying and converting Web2Print sales enquiries and how to address customer objections (because they are always valid!). Lastly, Ali talks about why some Web2Print strategies fail, despite good preparation efforts.
Introduction to Lean Startup & Lean User Experience Design William Evans
The document summarizes key concepts from Lean UX and the Lean Startup methodology. It discusses focusing on learning over requirements, using iterative design and testing to learn from customers, minimizing waste and cycle time, and emphasizing problem-solution fit over features. Key techniques mentioned include formulating hypotheses, conducting customer interviews and experiments, and measuring outcomes to guide decisions.
For the uninitiated, the Lean Startup methodology is a practice for developing products and businesses based on 'validated learning', getting customer feedback quickly and often. The objective is to eliminate uncertainty in the product development process.
2010 10 19 the lean startup workshop for i_gap irelandEric Ries
The document discusses the Lean Startup methodology for building startups under conditions of extreme uncertainty. It advocates for an experimental, customer-focused approach where the minimum viable product is used to test hypotheses and gather customer feedback through rapid iteration. Key techniques include continuous deployment, rapid A/B testing, and using the five whys method to identify the root causes of problems. The goal is to minimize the time to validate learning about customers through frequent releases and measurement.
The document provides 20 tips for managing business IT projects. Some key tips include:
1) Define clear business objectives and ensure stakeholders are motivated for change.
2) Evaluate the business' readiness for transformation before starting the project.
3) Reduce initial scope and focus on delivering value in phases.
4) Avoid overfragmenting resources and ensure consultants are fully dedicated.
5) Conduct regular status reviews to make effective decisions.
6) Keep solutions as standard as possible to reduce risks and costs.
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This document discusses how Finish Line Product Development Services helps small companies estimate costs for product development projects. It notes that accurately estimating costs is challenging without clear requirements or designs. However, Finish Line provides a cost estimation spreadsheet that lists assumptions and allows testing different scenarios to determine how assumptions impact budgets. This tool can help small companies identify which early-stage projects are best to pursue further.
Ways to reduce product development costSteve Owens
Small companies do not have significant sales volumes to offset development cost. They must keep product development budgets reasonable, without sacrificing quality.
If you ignore it, it will go Away (Product Development)Steve Owens
Sometimes it is just as important to know what not to do as it is to know what to do. Ignoring Product Development will result in your business going away.
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Decision making is fundamental to any professional activity. The study of “decision bias” is a fascinating subject. These studies show that the root cause of most faulty decision making is a wrong assumption.
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like clockwork and others are train wrecks? One reason some projects
succeed while others do not is the failure to differentiate between what
new aspects of the project will require invention as opposed to
engineering. Engineering is, for the most part, predictable and lends
itself to planning and scheduling. Invention, not so much. Failure to
identify inventions necessary to a product’s success and to conduct that
invention off the critical path is responsible for most of the train wrecks
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Finish Line has often been engaged to assist clients with projects that had failed or were failing. As a result, we encountered the same mistakes repeated over-and-over again. The following is our top ten list of why product development fails:
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This document serves as a comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to effectively use PyCharm for remote debugging of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on a local Windows machine. It meticulously outlines several critical steps in the process, starting with the crucial task of enabling permissions, followed by the installation and configuration of WSL.
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Ways to reduce product development cost
1. By Steve Owens
Finish Line Product Development Services
A Better Way for Small Companies to Develop Products
Ways to Reduce Product Development Cost
2. Small companies do not have significant sales
volumes to offset development cost. They must keep
product development budgets reasonable, without
sacrificing quality.
However, they often have smaller and inefficient
teams. They also have less than complete processes
and long product life cycles.
3. What should a small company do? Here are the
top 3 methods for keeping development cost low
in a small company while actually increasing
quality.
#1 – Reference Designs:
Starting with a reference design is like starting the
race from the halfway point. Using parts of other
designs means you have fewer hours to develop.
You can see some of our reference designs here.
4. #2 Use Experts:
Experts and specialist do not charge you to “learn.”
They already know how to get the job done. Keep
your team lean by hiring only for core skills and hire
experts for noncore skills. In a small company, you
can not afford to have people “learn on your dime.”
5. #3 Use a Proven Processes:
Lack of processes often leads to doing the wrong thing
really well. In a highly technical arena, it is not difficult for
team members to each have their own idea of what the
product vision is.
Following a mature stage gate process will go a long way
in avoiding having to do work all over again. This white
paper is a great start: Keys to Successful Product
Development.
6. Finish Line PDS 94 River
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info@finishlinepds.com
Tel: 603-880-8484
BTW, if you find yourselves being pulled into
the next project before you have time to
finish this one, give us a call—we can help.
7. Our White Papers
• Top 10 Reasons Why Product Development Projects Fail
• Invention Versus Engineering
• Keys to Successful Product Development
• What Every Contract Manufacturer Should Know About
Product Development
• Why Product Development is Different in a Lean Start-up
• Product Development in a Small Company
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