From Project to Product
- Project to Product overview
- Difference: Project vs. Product
- Process and Approach
- Waterfall
- Iterative delivery with waterfall requirements
- Blended discovery and delivery
- Mean Time to Pivot (MTTP)
- Common constraints to transitioning from project to product
- Lack of persistent, dedicated teams
- Redefining the role of the PMO
- Absence of Product Management capabilities
- Separation of Business and IT
- Project-based funding
- Project planning
- Building persistent product teams
- Project teams vs. product teams
- The product management function
Product-Based Funding
- Product-Based Funding
- “What?” and “Why?”
- Incremental investing
- Funding by product portfolios, families, and teams
- Funding cycles and adaptive investments
- Designing your product-based funding model
- Examples and case studies
Planning and Product Horizons
- The Iron Triangle
- From “fixed” time, budget, and scope
- Certainty was always a myth
- Product roadmaps
- Outcomes over output
- Measuring value
- When will it be done?
- Estimating in ranges
- To fixed data and variable scope
- Setting leadership expectations
Measuring and Learning
- Measuring outcomes, not outputs
- Measuring progress, capacity, and flow
- Measuring resilience and technical agility
- Measuring product / market impact
- Validated learning
Course Wrap-Up
- Road-mapping your change