Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Product and Portfolio Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Product and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio Management specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Product and Portfolio 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 992 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 and Portfolio Management improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:
- How do organizations balance the needs of different stakeholder groups, such as customers, investors, and regulators, when making product and portfolio management decisions that involve environmental and social responsibility trade-offs?
- How do organizations incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into their product and portfolio management decision-making processes to minimize negative externalities and maximize long-term value creation?
- How does our organization's cybersecurity strategy influence the prioritization of product and portfolio initiatives, and are there specific security requirements that need to be met during the development process?
- How do companies communicate their environmental and social responsibility goals and progress to stakeholders, including investors and customers, and what are the implications for product and portfolio management?
- Can you describe a scenario where a company's product and portfolio management decisions were influenced by environmental and social responsibility considerations, and what were the key outcomes and benefits?
- How do organizations manage the risks associated with environmental and social responsibility issues, such as reputational risk and regulatory compliance, in their product and portfolio management decisions?
- How do we ensure that product reporting and analytics insights are accessible and usable by stakeholders across the organization, and what is the process for training and supporting these stakeholders?
- What is the role of digital technologies, such as data analytics and artificial intelligence, in supporting environmental and social responsibility decision-making in product and portfolio management?
- What is the role of the product management office in driving business outcomes, such as revenue growth, customer acquisition, or cost reduction, and how do they measure their impact on these outcomes?
- What are the key performance indicators used to measure the effectiveness of IT service continuity management, and how do product and portfolio management activities contribute to their achievement?
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 and Portfolio Management book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Product and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Product and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Product and Portfolio Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Product and Portfolio Management project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Quality Audit: How does your organization know that it is appropriately effective and constructive in preparing its staff for organizational aspirations?
- Change Request: Are there requirements attributes that can discriminate between high and low reliability?
- Requirements Management Plan: Who will do the reporting and to whom will reports be delivered?
- Source Selection Criteria: What are the guiding principles for developing an evaluation report?
- Decision Log: What is the average size of your matters in an applicable measurement?
- Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Based on your Product and Portfolio Management project communication management plan, what worked well?
- Requirements Management Plan: When and how will a requirements baseline be established in this Product and Portfolio Management project?
- Schedule Management Plan: Is documentation created for communication with the suppliers and Vendors?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Does a documented Product and Portfolio Management project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
- Source Selection Criteria: What aspects should the contracting officer brief the Product and Portfolio Management project on prior to evaluation of proposals?
Step-by-step and complete Product and Portfolio Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Product and Portfolio Management project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Product and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio Management project with this in-depth Product and Portfolio Management Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Product and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio 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 and Portfolio Management investments work better.
This Product and Portfolio 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.
