
Product Manager's Desk Reference, Third Edition
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Module 1 Foundations of Product Management
- Introduction to Module 1
- Chapter 1 What Is Product Management?
- Question 1: What Is a Product?
- Product Lines
- Product Portfolios
- Solutions, Bundles, and Systems
- Product Elements and Modules
- Platforms
- Question 2: What Is Management?
- What Does a Product Manager Really Do?
- The Product Management Life Cycle Model
- Question 3: What Is Product Management?
- Product Management: A Holistic Activity
- Summary: Why Product Management Matters
- Chapter 2 The Product Master Plan
- The Purpose of a Master Plan
- Plans Change
- The Format of the Product Master Plan
- The Value of a Product Master Plan
- An Insurance Policy for Consistent Communication
- The Basic Construction of the Product Master Plan
- Product Business Documents
- Organizational Information
- Product Business Information
- Customer and Market Data
- Financial Information
- Resources and Tools
- A Personal Library
- A Product Management Library
- Summary
- Chapter 3 Leadership: Creating Influence
- You Are Always on Stage
- Stay Calm, Even When Your Hair's on Fire
- Transformation
- Important Leadership Values
- Leadership Behaviors and Mindset
- Your Leadership Experiences
- Evaluation and Personal Development
- Summary
- Chapter 4 Leveraging Teams to Get Things Done
- Product Teams vs. Project Teams
- Agile Project Teams
- Team Membership
- Teaming Is Not Always Easy
- Building Blocks of a Cross-Functional Product Team
- Team Membership
- Multicultural Product Team Issues
- Distributed Development Teams
- Product Team Responsibilities
- Cross-Functional Product Team Membership
- Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities
- The Functional Support Plan
- Team Membership Across the Life Cycle
- Cross-Functional Teams in the Global Arena
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Summary
- Chapter 5 Problem-Solving, Decision-Making, and Prioritizing
- The Importance of Decision-Making
- Decision-Making and Problem Solving
- Saving Grace: a Case Study About Decision-Making
- Decision-Making Techniques
- Combining Options
- The Morphologic Box
- The Decision Matrix
- The Decision Tree
- Analysis Paralysis and Rational Ignorance
- Gut-Feel Decision-Making
- Business Intelligence
- Summary
- Chapter 6 Finance for the Product Manager: Keeping Score
- The Language of Business
- The Basic Financial Statements
- The Income Statement
- The Balance Sheet
- Cash Flow
- Demystifying Discounted Cash Flow
- Financial Planning for Product Managers
- Creating Business Cases for Product Investments
- Assembling Forecasts
- Testing Planning Assumptions Using Sensitivity Analysis
- Deriving Product Cost Models
- Establishing Pricing Models
- Preparing Product Budgets
- Managing the Business
- Making Sure the Product Is Achieving Its Financial Goals
- Financial Ratios
- Last Words on Ratios
- Maturity Assessment: Placing the Product on the Life Cycle Curve
- Using Scorecards and Other Evaluative Tools
- Summary
- Module 2 Building Insights and Driving Strategies by Making the Market Your Primary Focus
- Introduction to Module 2
- Market Data Matters
- Customer and Market Insights Are Vital
- A Market Insights Development Process
- Chapter 7 The Playing Field and the Players: Analyzing the Industry and Competition
- Becoming the Expert
- What Is an Industry?
- Putting Industry Evolution into Perspective
- Carrying Out Industry Research
- Securing Additional Data
- Competitive Environment
- Competitive Positioning
- Gaining an Edge: Performance Counts
- Competitive Intelligence in Your Company
- Competitive Intelligence in Your World
- Ethics in Competitive Intelligence
- With Whom Do You Compete?
- Competitor SWOT
- How Do They Do What They Do?
- Sizing Up the Competitive Landscape
- The Final Analysis
- Summary
- Chapter 8 Finding Markets to Conquer by Understanding Customer Needs and Market Segments
- The Common Denominator in Segmentation: Customer Needs
- How Markets Are Segmented
- Market Segments Are Dynamic
- Describing the Target Market
- They Don't Know What They Don't Know
- Planning and Carrying Out Customer Visits
- Capturing the Voice of the Customer
- Conducting Customer Interviews
- Using Personas and Customer Narratives to Capture Needs
- Capturing the Customer's Journey
- Associating Customer Needs with Product Features
- Summary
- Chapter 9 Preparing to Set Your Mileposts: Forecasting for the Product Manager
- Forecasting and Market Potential
- Forecasts Are Built on Beliefs About the Future
- Validating Assumptions and Applying Customer Preferences
- Forecasting Is a Cross-Functional Exercise
- Sales Forecasting
- Validating the Forecast
- Demand Planning
- Summary
- Chapter 10 Product Strategy Formulation
- Strategy Is a Dynamic Continuum
- Strategizing Is Like Solving a Puzzle
- Cascading Strategies
- Dynamic Strategy for the Product Manager
- Strategy in Your World
- The Product Strategy Formulation Process
- Using the Product Strategy Formulation Process
- Baselining the Business of the Product
- Organizing the Data
- External Data: Industry and Competition
- Customer Activity
- Organizational Capabilities and Financial Health
- Capturing Product Performance Data
- Life Cycle State
- The Marketing Mix
- Company Resources That Contribute to the Product's Business
- Synthesizing Data and Identifying Opportunities
- Your Product's Future
- Establishing Goals
- Identifying Strategic Options
- Linking Your Strategy to a Roadmap
- Did We Get There?
- Summary
- Module 3 The Start of the Product's Journey
- Introduction to Module 3
- Limits and Benefits of Processes
- Importance of the Right Cadence
- Faster Is Not Always Better, but It Can't Hurt
- Organization of the Chapters in This Module
- Chapter 11 Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain: Linear Product Planning and Prioritization
- Linear Product Planning
- What's the Big Idea?
- Categorization of Product Ideas
- Sorting Out Opportunities
- "So What?": The Value Proposition for the Opportunity
- Clarifying Your Identity with a Positioning Statement
- Selection and Prioritization
- Managing Rejected Opportunities
- Securing Approval to Move to the Next Phase: The Concept Review
- Is There Really a Business Here? Assessing Feasibility
- Clarifying Roles, Responsibilities, and Deliverables
- Marketing
- Product Development/Engineering/IT
- Finance
- Customer Service
- Sales/Account Management
- Operations
- Supply Chain
- Legal/Regulatory/Compliance
- The Business Case
- Characteristics of Strong Business Cases
- Activities and Sequencing
- Business Case Structure
- Section 1: Framing
- Section 2: Customer Context and Problems
- Section 3: Industry and Competitive Environment
- Section 4: Overall Market Context
- Section 5: Product or Solution
- Section 6: Forecast and Pricing
- Section 7: Scenario Planning
- Section 8: Financial Analysis
- Section 9: Operations and Integration
- Section 10: Go to Market/Launch
- Section 11: Risk Assessment
- Section 12: Review and Recommendation
- Make Versus Buy
- Carrying Out a Make Versus Buy Analysis: An Example
- The Decision Matrix for the Feasibility Phase
- Summary
- Chapter 12 Appearances Are Everything: Defining and Designing the Product
- Product Definition Documents
- The PRD Outline and Template
- Managing Requirements
- Eliciting Requirements
- Defining Requirements
- Organizing Documents
- Managing Requirements from Beginning to End
- Prioritizing Requirements
- Inspections and Peer Reviews
- Requirements Management and the Product Life Cycle
- The Evolving Product Design
- The Product Definition Phase Review
- Summary
- Chapter 13 Product Planning and Prioritizing in the Digital World
- Perspective
- Customers First
- Designs and Prototypes
- Customer Value Drivers
- Verification of Strategic Fit and Prioritization of Features
- Staging Features for Development and Release Planning
- Summary
- Chapter 14 Execution and Oversight During Product Development
- The Product Manager's Role During Development
- Truth Mixed with Humility
- Product Managers Must Understand Execution and Mitigate Conflicts
- Surfacing Conflicts and Realities with "How" Questions
- Linear Product Development
- Managing Project Plans Helps Manage Risk
- Progress Validation Is Essential
- Product Testing
- The Beta Test
- Product Documentation
- Managing Change and Scope: Trade-Offs and Prioritization
- Iterative Product Development
- Priming the Pump
- Kanban
- Product Managers Versus Product Owners
- Connecting the Processes
- Summary
- Chapter 15 To Market, to Market: Launching and Releasing Products
- Launch Benchmarking Outcomes
- Putting the Launch into Perspective
- The Launch Plan
- Launch Execution
- Executive Champions Need to Lead Important Product Launches
- Confirm the Market Window
- Review Market and Beta Tests-or Conduct Them If Necessary
- Prerelease/Early Adopter Reviews
- Product Availability Ratings
- Provide Adequate Sales Training
- Sales Goals and Compensation
- Ensure Readiness of Marketing Collateral, Website, and Promotional Programs
- Leverage Digital Marketing
- Arrange Coverage by Industry or Market Analysts
- Make Sure Distribution Channels Are Able to Sell and Deliver the Product
- Ensure Readiness of Operational Systems
- Preparing for the Internal Launch
- Launch Metrics Must Be Assembled and Ready to Track
- Risk Management
- Be Willing to Recommend Go or No-Go for Launch
- The Announcement
- Summary
- Module 4 Continuing the Journey: Post-Launch Performance Management
- Introduction to Module 4
- Chapter 16 Auditing Results After the Launch
- After the Launch
- Using an Impartial Auditor
- Market Window Compliance
- Executive Sponsorship
- Business Case Synchronization
- Adequacy and Timing of Marketing Material
- Adequacy of Sales Training
- Reviewing Operational Readiness
- Conformance to Launch Metrics
- Make Sure to Capture Lessons Learned
- Win-Loss Audits
- Internal Win-Loss Auditing
- External Win-Loss Auditing
- Assembling a Report
- Summary
- Chapter 17 Post-Launch Performance Management
- Running the Business
- The Importance of Measuring Performance
- Creating a Data-Driven Fact Base
- Data and Metrics
- Market Metrics
- Financial Metrics
- Sales, Service, and Operations Metrics
- Evaluation: What's Happening Now with the Product?
- Assessing the Impact of Your Cross-Functional Product Team
- Identifying the Life Cycle State of the Product
- Evaluating Financial and Business Data Using Product Scorecards
- Using a Product Dashboard and a Product Health Report
- Pricing and Product Performance
- Updating Your Product Roadmap
- Summary
- Chapter 18 Product Portfolio Management
- Dispelling Some Myths About Product Portfolio Management
- What Is Life Cycle Product Portfolio Management?
- A Portfolio Reference Model
- The Ideal Work Structure for Product Portfolio Management
- The Cross-Functional Product Review Board
- A Life Cycle Product Portfolio Model
- Methodology
- Further Analysis: Current Products
- Create Your Own Product Portfolio Model
- Portfolio Decision-Making
- Availability of Data Is Critical
- Summary
- Chapter 19 Enough's Enough! Discontinuing the Product
- Barriers to Discontinuation
- The Discontinuation Decision
- Product Discontinuation Documentation
- The Cross-Functional Team
- Other Types of "Discontinuation"
- The Discontinuation Notice
- Summary
- Index
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