Product Management Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Product Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Product Management related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Product Management specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Product Management Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Product Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Is the rate of progress of the development project satisfactory against the expectations to deliver a viable design at the desired level of technology/product maturity in a timely manner?
   
   

2. Is the innovator organization able to guarantee the form, fit, and functional aspects of the necessary technical deliverables in order to undertake desired end user trials independently?
   
   

3. Does require experience keeps people give your development role of in quality assurance software development so it and has the standards are various types of software?
   
   

4. Is the mvp at subsystem, module or component levels collectively able to cater to each unique or independent requirement related to features or functionality?
   
   

5. Are the capability enrichment goals and technology needs, comprehensively translated into expectations properly captured in the form of requirements?
   
   

6. Does your organization have user friendly and integrated technology capabilities to support the end to end product governance life cycle?
   
   

7. What is the highest impact thing you can work on right now given your limited resources whether that is people, time, or money?
   
   

8. How can portfolio management be set up and conducted in small software organizations striving for agile software development?
   
   

9. Do your processes need more flexibility when it comes to prioritizing work, setting deadlines, or making changes midstream?
   
   

10. Does your organization have an inventory of products and services with up to date risk ratings easily accessible?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Product Management book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Product Management self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Product Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Product Management areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Product Management Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Product Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Product Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Product Management project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its processes for managing severance are appropriately effective, constructive and fair?
   
   

2. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What is the expected monetary value of the Product Management project?
   
   

3. Cost Management Plan: What is your organizations history in doing similar tasks?
   
   

4. Initiating Process Group: Contingency planning. if a risk event occurs, what will you do?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Are all key components of a Quality Assurance Plan present?
   
   

6. Project or Phase Close-Out: If you were the Product Management project sponsor, how would you determine which Product Management project team(s) and/or individuals deserve recognition?
   
   

7. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Are the overhead pools formally and adequately identified?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Have process improvement efforts been completed before requirements efforts begin?
   
   

9. Change Request: Should staff call into the helpdesk or go to the website?
   
   

10. Human Resource Management Plan: Is this Product Management project carried out in partnership with other groups/organizations?


 
Step-by-step and complete Product Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Product Management project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Product Management project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Product Management project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Product Management project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Product Management project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Product Management project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Product Management project with this in-depth Product Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Product Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Product Management and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Product Management investments work better.

This Product Management All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.