Product Organization Assessment
Product Manager Workshop
Product Jumpstart
Product Evaluation
Product Consulting
Product Development Process
Product Manager Leadership Coaching
Partner: Marty Cagan
Product Organization Assessment
If you’re trying to understand how your product organization compares with the best in the industry, and understand what possible organizational changes are need, either in the structure of the organization, or the roles and responsibilities, or in helping ot build the team, this “Product Organization Assessment” is a good place to start. The assessment takes between one and two days, and involves meeting with staff at all levels of the organization, evaluating your products and your product development process. The result is a written recommendation and personal discussion with management.
For more information, contact the Silicon Valley Product Group.
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Product Manager Workshop
100 Essential Lessons in Product Management
A Company-Tailored Workshop for Product Management Teams
The product manager is the role responsible for coming up with the right product at the right time. But how do you really do this? The answers may surprise you. It's not focus groups. It's not market research. And it's not about becoming more "customer-centric." The best Internet companies in the world don't create products the way you might think.
If you want to learn the way product management is done at the best technology companies in the world, and how these companies are able to consistently produce winning products that are used by millions, then keep reading.
What makes this workshop special?
What makes this course different is that it is taught by people that have actually done the job and built the teams at some of the leading software companies in the world, including Netscape, Microsoft, and eBay. Compare the actual work experience of our instructors with anyone else. Our instructors are proven, professional product organization leaders with a passion for building great products and developing great product managers.
If you're trying to come up with a product that changes the world, you'll need to think differently. This course will show you how.
How is this workshop structured?
The course is designed around 100 essential lessons in product management. Each lesson is a discussion about an issue, tool or technique that is proven to make a difference in your product. Many of the lessons will surprise you. All are full of examples to illustrate the point. Exercises throughout let you try out the skills and techniques in class. You will leave the course with 100 techniques you can immediately apply in your job.
How is this workshop delivered?
The course is designed in the form of a customized, on-site workshop prepared for your company's product managers; designed around your company's roles and organizational structure, development process, your specific industry and competitive landscape, and your company culture.
The workshop is 2 days long, and the cost includes an advance day of interviews with staff, and course customization. Course delivery is provided at your site, or location of you choice. We deliver our courses world-wide, including India and Europe.
Who is this workshop for?
This course is targeted at those people responsible for actually defining the products or services their company produces. Often these people have a product manager title, but sometimes they are product designers, product marketing managers, program managers, engineering managers, or lead developers.
This 2-day course is designed for product professionals that want to learn the techniques of some of the most successful high-tech companies in the world.
What will I learn?
You’ll learn;
• The role and responsibilities of great product managers
• The critical attributes of great products
• To identify and assess a product opportunity
• To create a product spec that you know represents a winning product
• To create a product design that delivers a great user experience
• To work effectively with the development organization
• To work effectively with the marketing organization
• How to avoid the most common mistakes product managers make
• To succeed with whatever development process your team uses – Waterfall/Phase Gate, or Agile/XP or Scrum
The course is designed to teach you everything you need to know to be a confident and competent product manager for products that make a difference.
Who else has taken this workshop?
We work with companies that understand the critical role that great product management plays. They are among the most successful technology companies in the world. Take a look at our clients and what their product managers have to say.
How do I find out about signing up my product team?
For more information, contact the Silicon Valley Product Group.
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Product Jumpstart
An Offsite Workshop for your Product Team
Need to jumpstart your product effort? Would you like to get all the key product leaders on your team on the same page and focused on coming up with a winning product for your customers?
This workshop involves taking the product team off-site for onoe to three days, and with our facilitation and methodology, we significantly accelerate the process of coming up with your product strategy, target customers/user profiles, product principles, requirements, and the initial design of the user experience.
In addition to dramatically speeding the process of getting a product to this stage, the other main benefit is the team-building value of getting the product team together for these intense sessions.
These sessions are often combined with an outing or activity.
Startups
For startups, these sessions typically involve most or all of the company's management team, and include business strategy and product strategy work.
Larger Companies
For larger product organizations, typical attendees include the head of product, the product manager, product designer, and the lead engineer.
For more information, contact the Silicon Valley Product Group.
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Product Evaluation
Would you like an independent assessment of the state of your product? This product evaluation involves assessing the current state of the product, including business metrics and site analytics evaluation, user testing results, heuristic evaluation and competitive assessment. The result is a written recommendation of next steps.
For more information, contact the Silicon Valley Product Group.
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Product Consulting
Assisting with your Product Efforts
Product Strategy
The product strategy analyzes the market opportunity and the technology and describes a vision of what the product can be.
Product Roadmap
The product roadmap describes the sequence of product releases to make the product strategy a reality.
We can work with you to create these key deliverables.
For more information, contact the Silicon Valley Product Group.
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Product Development Process
Product Development Process and Organizational Design for Effective Product Development.
Are you struggling with Agile/XP/Scrum versus traditional/Waterfall software development? Trying different approaches but finding problems and limitations with each?
Or possibly you are looking for ways to get your product managers, product designers, and engineers all working more effectively to come up with a winning product.
In either case, we can help you modernize your software development process, and come up with something that gets software out quickly and consistently, yet works well in your company culture and utilizes the skills of your staff.
Once you have defined the appropriate product development process, you'll need to educate the different roles as to how they contribute and interact with the rest of the company to get the product designed, built, and delivered.
For more information, contact the Silicon Valley Product Group.
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Leadership Coaching
Develop the skills of your product management leadership team
Product Management leaders have very significant responsibilities in a product organization. Designing the product management organization, the right product management model, staffing with the right talent, developing the skills of their team, coming up with a successful product strategy and ensuring that the organization delivers the products the company needs to be successful.
Having access to someone with experience with these challenges can provide the support necessary to your product management leaders so that they can succeed.
For more information, contact Marty Cagan.
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