Product Management: Understanding Business Context and Focus

Product Management: Understanding Business Context and Focus
Author: Asomi Ithia
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838590633

Product management starts here. Before building and managing products in mid-to-large organisations, product people need to understand the organisation’s aims, strategies and culture and what they mean for them. Product Management: Understanding Business Context and Focus explores how business context and focus relate to, and impact, product management, from the organisation’s vision statement to objectives, strategy, values and culture. Looking specifically at what each encompasses, the book examines the different approaches taken by organisations and how this flows down to and can be navigated by product people. Product Management: Understanding Business Context and Focus is the second of a four book series. Together, the books are designed to provide a straight-talking and pragmatic approach to the creation, delivery and management of products in such a way that creates value for your customers and business.

EMPOWERED

EMPOWERED
Author: Marty Cagan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119691257

"Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of "achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people". Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams"--

Escaping the Build Trap

Escaping the Build Trap
Author: Melissa Perri
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1491973765

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs. In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You’ll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. In five parts, this book explores: Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent How to set up a product organization that scales How product strategy connects a company’s vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: MANAGING EXISTING PRODUCTS

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: MANAGING EXISTING PRODUCTS
Author: Asomi Ithia
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838592733

Once a product is in market, new adventures with fresh opportunities and challenges start. Product Management: Managing Existing Products is designed to equip you with the tools and insights you need to understand your current context and make decisions for moving your product forward. Product Management: Managing Existing Products begins with questions, about existing products, that product people need to be able to answer. It then goes through activities for creating a cadence for developing, optimising and executing strategies to move existing products forward - including objective setting, strategic roadmaps, iterative delivery and much more. This is 1 of 4 books in the Product Management Series. As a series, the books are designed to provide a pragmatic approach to the spectrum of activities required to create, deliver and manage products that create value for your customers and business. With its friendly and personable tone content is brought to life with references, diagrams, illustrations, examples, case studies and quotes from product practitioners.

Product Management: Bringing New Products to Market

Product Management: Bringing New Products to Market
Author: Asomi Ithia
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-10-28
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1838597484

Whether creating a product from nothing or making a stepped change to an existing product, the task presents many opportunities to ask and seek answers to fundamental questions that will steer the final outcome.

Product Management: Mastering the Product Role

Product Management: Mastering the Product Role
Author: Asomi Ithia
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2019-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838599223

In a new series, Asomi Ithia provides a pragmatic approach to the range of activities required to create, deliver and manage products. In Mastering the Product Role, Asomi describes the various functions of product management, and outlines its uses in different organisational contexts.

Introduction to Business

Introduction to Business
Author: Lawrence J. Gitman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1455
Release: 2024-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Product Management: Managing Existing Products

Product Management: Managing Existing Products
Author: Asomi Ithia
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838597786

Once a product is in market, new adventures with fresh opportunities and challenges start. Product Management: Bringing New Products to Market is designed to equip you with the tools and insights you need to understand your current context and make decisions for moving your product forward.

The Product Manager's Desk Reference

The Product Manager's Desk Reference
Author: Steven Haines
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2008-07-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071591354

Grab the all-you-need reference and manage your products effectively and efficiently Now, product managers at every level can have an authoritative, one-stop reference to strategizing, introducing, and managing products at their fingertips. The Product Manager’s Desk Reference uses the progression of the practitioner across the career cycle as well as the progression of the product across its life cycle to establish clear guidelines as to what must be done, when, by whom, and with what level of expertise.

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Author: Richard Rumelt
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 184765746X

When Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy was published in 2011, it immediately struck a chord, calling out as bad strategy the mish-mash of pop culture, motivational slogans and business buzz speak so often and misleadingly masquerading as the real thing. Since then, his original and pragmatic ideas have won fans around the world and continue to help readers to recognise and avoid the elements of bad strategy and adopt good, action-oriented strategies that honestly acknowledge the challenges being faced and offer straightforward approaches to overcoming them. Strategy should not be equated with ambition, leadership, vision or planning; rather, it is coherent action backed by an argument. For Rumelt, the heart of good strategy is insight into the hidden power in any situation, and into an appropriate response - whether launching a new product, fighting a war or putting a man on the moon. Drawing on examples of the good and the bad from across all sectors and all ages, he shows how this insight can be cultivated with a wide variety of tools that lead to better thinking and better strategy, strategy that cuts through the hype and gets results.