Managing Product Requirements
With the help of special software, it is possible to map out your requirements, and integrate them into your development and release cycle.
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Better Requirements Management Means Better Business
Better Requirements Management Means Better Business
by Lana Gates
by Lana Gates
Successfully addressing requirements management from a more iterative approach requires aligning business with IT; open communication is key
Although...
Requirement Priority Function
Been thinking about a couple things recently… Can you make software that cannot be sold as a service? The other question, likely more applicable to this group, is can we collectively create an excel function that will prioritize / rank your requirements for you?
A few random thoughts and a PRD
First of all... we have 96 archived webinars. That is massive library of resources for Product Management. Check it out.
Futureproofing 101
Do you employ a fortune teller to help you gauge future product requests? If not, you're probably the closest thing to it. We've all experienced the pain of dealing with something that seems like a trivial product-wide requirement having a...
Write a PR.... wha?
Our friends at brainmates have a great series entitled "So You're a New Product Manager..." and tip #5 was write a Product Requirements Document. Excellent advise, except thought people were writing, if at all, PRDs per release. I wondered... and that means time for another poll.
Interesting Post by consultglobal
Found here.
I like the 4 boxes, I think you could use this to help you first-pass categorize your problems and requirements.
consultglobal is a good source for Product Management.
SVPMA Event, Saturday, July 28th
The Silicon Valley Product Management Association will be hosting a special breakfast workshop; Product Naming - Addressing New Issues, by SB Master, Master-McNeil, Inc on - Saturday, July 28th, 2007. These are always great events to learn from industry leaders,...
Is your problem What or How?
by new Blogger, Bob Schmonsees.
I have lots of people ask me the difference between a Value Map and the templates & conversation support forms that are part of every solution centric messaging or selling methodology. My answer is as follows:
SVPMA Event, Wednesday July 11th
The Silicon Valley Product Management Association will be hosting its next meeting on Wednesday, July 11th. Chris Shipley, Cofounder & Chairman of Guidewire Group, Inc. will be speaking about "Ready, Set, Launch: Taking the Product to Market." These are always...
Good Advice from an unusual source
Everyone is inspired by something... Problem Statements - What are you trying to solve?...
New Blog... Product Management & Strategy
Product Management & Strategy .... and an excellent start. To quote... "Traditional VOC is about current products, today's problems, about gaps in current offerings. It fails to give insight into customer's unarticulated needs. The products & solutions that are...
Something new for Product Management
Someone mentioned something to me while at the SMP conference (by the way... James Robertson did an excellent recap on a number of the sessions... here) that I have not been able to get out of my head... this...
Product Management Post Round-up
That time again....
Dell and their Ideastorm
I like this. A lot. And, I like that it is open to anyone. But, can you pull this off without a community of thousands? And, if you don't have thousands would this data be useful?
Welcome Bob Schmonsees, our newest blogger
All of us at the Product Management View would like to extend a hearty welcome to our newest blogger, Bob Schmonsees. Bob is a leading authority on marketing and sales alignment and effectiveness, and we couldn't be happier to have him join us!
Bob is the founder of the Value Mapping Consortium (www.valuemapping.net). He has over 30 years experience as a successful high-tech marketing and sales executive and CEO...
Product Management Post Round-up
Here are a few interesting links for you today ...
How to plan for platform support, a la Microsoft.
If you go here and expand the question: "Is Microsoft considering support for additional operating systems?" you will see that Microsoft is market driven too.
Art or Science?
This post - Ann Handley: Marketing: Science or Art? - reminded me how much this phrase is starting to annoy me.
Releases
Why are the majority of people more than a month late with their release?
Check out my poll here. Feel free to continue to vote if you have not already.
Beautiful Problems
The topic of writing problem statements does not need to be repeated ... but there is technically nothing lost by revisiting the topic. So ... here goes ... . Paul has written a post worth reading ... What Problem Do You Solve?
Microsoft or Yahoo or Both?
This is fairly topical but I don't get it. I get mergers, I understand the Sirius / XM merger ... but this one not so much. Two companies this large merging to take on Google ... my guess is they will spend the next year or two (likely longer!) merging and get lost in the wake of more Google innovation. What is in it for the Customer?
Tyner Blain and the Agile Software Development Experiment
In case you have not already stumbled across this... Tyner Blain are executing a public Agile development exercise. It starts here. To follow along, go here and scroll to the bottom and read upwards. Strange! If you use an RSS reader it is a little easier because you can sort the post chronologically. Enjoy!
Novell - Requirements Management Declaration
Here is another great example of the increasing importance of the product management process (aka requirements management, customer needs management): Novell - Requirements Management Declaration: "The better Novell can pro-actively manage the collection and processing of ideas and enhancement requests...
Localization Makes the World go 'Round
Recently I had the incredible good fortune to travel to Israel on business. If you have not been, I strongly recommend a visit for anyone who has an appreciation of history, culture and tradition. The sense of "wow - it...
new Pragmatic Marketing website design
Check out the new Pragmatic Marketing website here... looks great! Lots of content and job listings!...
Tyner Blain and CMMI Explained
Is anyone going through the CMMI process of certification? Care to share what level you are at? Or where you think you might be? I'd love to meet someone working in a certified level 5 environment. What about your RMM...
Pursuing Technological Excellence
Am I talking about Development, and how they can help us achieve technological excellence? Not quite. Seems many large, previously successful companies, lose their edge at some point due to internal pursuits. I suppose the most recent example would be...
Transitioning from User Experience to Product Management
I was doing some surfing this morning, and I ran into an interesting article about Transitioning from User Experience to Product Management. The Article is written by Jeff Lash and Chris Baum, it is certainly worth the read. The comments...
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Presentation
Came across this video of a recent Steve Ballmer presentation in the Netherlands. It runs about 43min's and is a great intro into some of Microsoft's initiative's around innovation, market feedback and overall "people" friendly approach. Big emphasis on IT...
Keep it Simple, Stupid!
Read an interesting article recently about a small backup software vendor winning a massive contract with GE. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/online_backup;_ylt=AsCv2dkLp5q5VcdY3DGh3iQjtBAF Could you have a better news article for the need to be market driven, and actually listen to our customers?:) I find...
On time releases
Just wondering how successful people are at meeting their release deadlines? Click the link to see the poll.
General Rambling
You know, all of these stats people cite about x% of software development costs are blah, blah, blah. Who cares? How is that information valuable? How is it relevant to you?
Introduction to Innovation - part 1
"If you are going to design something new, you better understand the problem first." - Roger Schank, Ph. D.
To get this started I want you to think about innovation, what it means, how you get started and how to be better at it than others.
How do you measure success?
From another member of the community (Scott!).... he is interested to know how other software/high-tech Product Managers measure the success and health of their products. Great question... Scott, would you mind contributing your thoughts? It is a tough question to answer... maybe there is not one ... my initial thought is for new products you might want to measure success by product quality. My thought behind this one was two fold, a) revenue / adoption will be hard to come-by depending on the length of your sales cycle so you need to start to measure somewhere. Once you start to get some sales then market share is a good metric and so is feature adoption so that you know what people are using. So, to recap .. quality (this is generally easy enough to measure), market share and feature usage. Anyone else? Couple last thoughts... ability to meet targets dates with approved scope and be within budget.
A new blog and some content from SVPMA
Another "new for me blog" that I will watch ... . All about Product Management by Derek Morrison - http://allaboutproductmanagement.blogspot.com/index.html.
For those of you not reading the SVPMA forums ... one of our community members (Brian!) forwarded this along.
1. Top 10 Product Launch Mistakes - http://svpma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1614
2. CNBC's World Business Review is airing a segment on trends in Product Management and Product Marketing - http://svpma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1226. You can find a link to the scheduled broadcast in the forum.
Enjoy!
More on Vision from the PDMA Blog
Reading through the PDMA blog, found here - http://blog.pdma.org/ - I found an article (and podcast) on Balancing Vision and Process found here - http://blog.pdma.org/2007/01/balancing-vision-and-process.html. Check, both links out. Good blog!
Enjoy!
TAG PMA: Agile vs Waterfall debate
I recently attended the Atlanta PMA TAG event, the format was excellent, it was a debate between 2 Product Management execs and 2 R&D execs. The format was an open debate with a few major topics being discussed; the best...
Good vs. Great salespeople
Seth Godin knocked one out of the park yesterday when he stated: "Nine women working together can't have a baby in one month, and ten good salespeople still aren't going to close the account that a great one could." http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/good_is_not_alm.html...
Using Web 2.0 to do my job
Stumbled across this today on Digg. Now I do not work for Tivo, nor do I even own a Tivo, but to me this is a great suggestion. But from a Product Management perspective, this idea is well thought out,...
Fun "New for Me" Blog
Information Technology Dark Side (http://www.techdarkside.com/) Courtesy of Managing Product Development Enjoy!...
Monday Fun.... Web 2.0 explained
Monday? Fun? Sure, why not. Anyone familiari with StumbleUpon? Today, I stumbled across Vidipedia (who knew?) and a video demonstrating what Web 2.0 is. This video is worth watching. Unless, of course, you already know it all....
Tagged
Oh Oh ... we have been tagged. Robin was tagged by Steve Johnson and I was tagged by Roger Cauvin.
Do you Peer 2 Peer (P2P)?
Do you peer 2 peer(P2P)? If not, you should! Peer 2 peer industry gatherings are an excellent way to share your job related experiences with fellow industry peers, and to learn from everyone who attends as well. I am a...
Conflict
A couple people heading in opposite directions ... a short while back I highlighted one of Roger's post sabout taking members of your development team on field trips. Jeff proposes that they stay in the office. I think with some...
Build As We Do, Not As We Say
Political pollsters have known for years that advance polls are generally a pretty poor indicator of actual voter behavior. Why? As my real estate agent likes to say, "Buyers are liars." It seems that as voters and consumers we are not very good at predicting our own behavior, let alone the behavior of others. That's why I suggest that we should always remember to take focus group and survey results with a grain of salt.
Product Management Post Round-Up
A new (for me anyway) Product Management blog: How To Be A Good Product Manager From Market Requirement To Product Requirements......... A good read. I am sure everyone saw this... but if not, read this ... Seven Traits of Successful...
Happy New Year Everyone!
After a small hiatus ... we are back. I hope everyone had time to spend with family, time to sleep and time to reflect. This is going to be a big year for all Product Managers.
Leveraging the Next Generation of Requirements Management Solutions for Greater Profitability
Leveraging the Next Generation of Requirements Management Solutions for Greater Profitability
What Every Software Company Must Know
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