Product Management and Product Development Training Workshops

Sinan Si Alhir
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Project Manager) (CSM)
IT Project Management Certified Professional (IT Project+)
e-Business Certified Professional (e-Biz+)

 

Sinan Si Alhir

http://salhir.home.comcast.net

Updated July 2008

 


Agile Product Management and Development: Harmonizing Business and Technology

(2 Days)

Participants

Product management and marketing professionals
(directors and product managers, technical product managers, and product marketing managers)

Product development professionals
(analysts and user-experience/interaction/visual designers, application architects and designers, developers, and testers)

Project management professionals
(project managers and project/team leaders)

Product management and product development professionals gain more from this workshop when attending with their product team counterparts in product development and product management respectively.

For onsite sessions, this workshop may be further customized to meet your particular needs.

Overview

This intense interactive training workshop focuses on harmonizing product management and product development with Scrum.

Product management focuses on managing and marketing technology products (software, hardware, and services), which is explored from the perspective of Pragmatic Marketing’s proven Pragmatic Marketing Framework and the Product Development and Management Association’s (PDMA) foundational Body of Knowledge (PDMA-BoK). The Pragmatic Marketing Framework is a proven approach for managing and marketing technology products. It is a comprehensive responsibility-based model used to manage and market technology products for maximum market impact using three roles and various competencies/tasks.The PDMA-BoK organizes proven product management and development concepts and practices. It is distilled into a comprehensive responsibility-based framework that is used to manage and market technology products for maximum market impact.

Scrum is a proven lean and agile approach to product development. It is a simple “inspect and adapt” framework used to organize work for maximum efficiency and effectiveness using three roles, three ceremonies, and three artifacts wherein stories express requirements and tasks express work.

This workshop not only provides product management professionals and product development professionals with an understanding of how to integrate the Pragmatic Marketing Framework and combine product management concepts and practices with Scrum to deliver products successfully, but it also gives participants an opportunity to explore the many practical aspects around their joint application and adoption.

This is not mere presentation-based training but a workshop using experiential learning (learning by doing, including robust simulations and discussions). It is facilitated by active practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience, which is used to highlight and expose participants to many common pitfalls. Experiential learning techniques are used to illustrate key concepts in a comprehensive manner that is interactively tailored to the participants’ particular needs. Participants will not only gain a foundational understanding, but will also gain practical insight around the nuances of putting the techniques into practice to maximize results.

Note: This workshop is not associated with, presented, sponsored, or endorsed by the Product Development and Management Association. This workshop does not teach the Product Development and Management Association’s Body of Knowledge.

Note: This workshop is not associated with, presented, sponsored, or endorsed by Pragmatic Marketing. This workshop does not teach the Pragmatic Marketing Framework.

Agenda

Overview
      Agility: Values and Principles
      Product Management and Product Development

Product Management and the Pragmatic Marketing Framework

      Business-Technology Strategy: Market and Quantitative Analysis

      Product-Release Strategy: Product Strategy and Planning

      Marketing-Sales-Support Strategy: Program Strategy, Sales Readiness, and Chanel Support

Scrum
      Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Team, and ScrumMaster
      Ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review
      Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burndown Chart

Integrating the Pragmatic Marketing Framework and Scrum


 

Agile Product Visioning and Roadmapping

(2 Days)

Participants

Product management and marketing professionals
(directors and product managers, technical product managers, and product marketing managers)

Project management professionals
(project managers and project/team leaders)

For onsite sessions, this workshop may be further customized to meet your particular needs.

Overview

This intense interactive training workshop focuses on product visioning and roadmapping. It not only provides participants with the skills for creating compelling product visions and actionable product roadmaps using agile techniques, but it also gives participants practical hands-on experience applying these techniques throughout the workshop. Participants will be introduced to agility and create a product vision and product roadmap.

This is not mere presentation-based training but a workshop using experiential learning (learning by doing, including robust simulations and discussions). It is facilitated by active practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience, which is used to highlight and expose participants to many common pitfalls. Experiential learning techniques are used to illustrate key concepts in a comprehensive manner that is interactively tailored to the participants’ particular needs. Participants will not only gain a foundational understanding, but will also gain practical insight around the nuances of putting the techniques into practice to maximize results.

Agenda

Overview
      Agility: Values and Principles
      Product Management and Product Development
      Agile Framework: Roles, Artifacts, and Ceremonies

Agile Product Visioning: Crafting a Vision
      Problems and Solutions
      Stakeholders and Users
      Needs and Features
      Assumptions, Dependencies, and Constraints
      Other Requirements

Agile Product Roadmapping: Crafting a Roadmap
      Layers
      Releases and Milestones
      Elements and Dependencies


 

Agile Product Requirements: User Stories for Product Requirements

(2 Days)

Participants

Product management and marketing professionals
(directors and product managers, technical product managers, and product marketing managers)

Product development professionals
(analysts and user-experience/interaction/visual designers, application architects and designers, developers, and testers)

Project management professionals
(project managers and project/team leaders)

Product management and product development professionals gain more from this workshop when attending with their product team counterparts in product development and product management respectively.

For onsite sessions, this workshop may be further customized to meet your particular needs.

Overview

Agile approaches to product management and development such as Scrum use stories to express requirements and tasks to express work. This intense interactive training workshop focuses on using user stories to express product requirements.

While user stories are conceptually simple and involve a few guidelines, the technique emphasizes a particular mindset around requirements. Many teams enact the technique, but don’t readily internalize the mindset, and thus don’t experience the benefits of using user stories.

This workshop not only provides participants with the skills for creating useful requirements using agile techniques, but it also gives participants practical hands-on experience applying these techniques throughout the workshop. Participants will be introduced to agility and work with user roles, user stories, and acceptance tests.

This is not mere presentation-based training but a workshop using experiential learning (learning by doing, including robust simulations and discussions). It is facilitated by active practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience, which is used to highlight and expose participants to many common pitfalls. Experiential learning techniques are used to illustrate key concepts in a comprehensive manner that is interactively tailored to the participants’ particular needs. Participants will not only gain a foundational understanding, but will also gain practical insight around the nuances of putting the techniques into practice to maximize results.

Agenda

Overview
      Agility: Values and Principles
      Product Management and Product Development
      Agile Framework: Roles, Artifacts, and Ceremonies

Working with User Roles
      Understanding Context
      Understanding Users

Writing User Stories
      User Story Template
      Gathering Techniques
      INVEST in Good Stories

Writing Acceptance Tests
      Acceptance Test Template
      Detailing User Stories

User Stories and Other Techniques


 

Scrum Essentials in Practice

(2 Days)

Participants

Product management and marketing professionals
(directors and product managers, technical product managers, and product marketing managers)

Product development professionals
(analysts and user-experience/interaction/visual designers, application architects and designers, developers, and testers)

Project management professionals
(project managers and project/team leaders)

Product management and product development professionals gain more from this workshop when attending with their product team counterparts in product development and product management respectively.

For onsite sessions, this workshop may be further customized to meet your particular needs.

Overview

This intense interactive training workshop focuses on Scrum, a proven lean and agile approach to product development. It is a simple “inspect and adapt” framework used to organize work for maximum efficiency and effectiveness using three roles, three ceremonies, and three artifacts wherein stories express requirements and tasks express work.

While Scrum is conceptually simple and involves only a few roles, artifacts, and ceremonies, truly doing Scrum causes a paradigm shift in product management and product development. Many teams and organizations enthusiastically focus on enacting Scrum practices while not readily absorbing the underlying principles and values necessary to achieve Success in truly doing Scrum --- thus not experiencing the benefits of Leanness and Agility, and not maximizing their return on investment!

When product management and product development teams absorb the underlying principles and values, a transformation results where the appropriate win-win practices emerge in the context of the organization --- ultimately, the whole is more than the mere sum of its parts! However, when product management and product development teams merely enact practices, an unhealthy tension commonly results where harmful dynamics emerge in the context of the organization --- ultimately, negative stress impacts individuals, teams, and the organization!

If you have participated in Certified Scrum Master (CSM) training; are only aware of Scum concepts; are an experienced product management, project management, or product development professional; are not experiencing Success with Scrum or are not experiencing the benefits of Leanness and Agility; or have no background related to Scrum and looking to be Successful with Scrum, this Essentials in Practice workshop is for you!

This is not mere presentation-based training but a workshop using experiential learning (learning by doing, including robust simulations and discussions). It is facilitated by active practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience, which is used to highlight and expose participants to many common pitfalls. Experiential learning techniques are used to illustrate key concepts in a comprehensive manner that is interactively tailored to the participants’ particular needs. Participants will not only gain a foundational understanding, but will also gain practical insight around the nuances of putting the techniques into practice to maximize results.

Agenda

Overview
      Agility: Values and Principles
      Product Management and Product Development

Scrum Essentials
      Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Team, and ScrumMaster
      Ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review
      Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burndown Chart

Scrum in Practice
      Product Visioning and Roadmapping
      Release Planning and the Product Backlog
      Sprint Planning and the Sprint Backlog
      Daily Scrum
      Sprint Review

Scrum in the Enterprise


 

Enterprise Scurm: Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise

(2 Days)

Participants

Product management and marketing professionals
(directors and product managers, technical product managers, and product marketing managers)

Product development professionals
(analysts and user-experience/interaction/visual designers, application architects and designers, developers, and testers)

Project management professionals
(project managers and project/team leaders)

Product management and product development professionals gain more from this workshop when attending with their product team counterparts in product development and product management respectively.

For onsite sessions, this workshop may be further customized to meet your particular needs.

Overview

This intense interactive training workshop focuses on scaling Scrum to the Enterprise.

This is not mere presentation-based training but a workshop using experiential learning (learning by doing, including robust simulations and discussions). It is facilitated by active practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience, which is used to highlight and expose participants to many common pitfalls. Experiential learning techniques are used to illustrate key concepts in a comprehensive manner that is interactively tailored to the participants’ particular needs. Participants will not only gain a foundational understanding, but will also gain practical insight around the nuances of putting the techniques into practice to maximize results.

Agenda

Overview
      Agility: Values and Principles
      Product Management and Product Development

Scrum Essentials
      Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Team, and ScrumMaster
      Ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review
      Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burndown Chart

Scrum in the Enterprise
      Enterprise
      Scrum: Decouple, Balance, and Couple
      Basic Core
      Sharing
      Organizing

The Competitive Enterprise


 

The Competitive Enterprise: Lean and Agile at Scale

(2 Days)

Participants

Product management and marketing professionals
(directors and product managers, technical product managers, and product marketing managers)

Product development professionals
(analysts and user-experience/interaction/visual designers, application architects and designers, developers, and testers)

Project management professionals
(project managers and project/team leaders)

Product management and product development professionals gain more from this workshop when attending with their product team counterparts in product development and product management respectively.

For onsite sessions, this workshop may be further customized to meet your particular needs.

Overview

This intense interactive training workshop focuses on becoming a Competitive Enterprise, harmonizing Leanness and Agility and scaling to the Enterprise.

This is not mere presentation-based training but a workshop using experiential learning (learning by doing, including robust simulations and discussions). It is facilitated by active practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience, which is used to highlight and expose participants to many common pitfalls. Experiential learning techniques are used to illustrate key concepts in a comprehensive manner that is interactively tailored to the participants’ particular needs. Participants will not only gain a foundational understanding, but will also gain practical insight around the nuances of putting the techniques into practice to maximize results.

Agenda

Overview
      Lean, Agile, and Competitive
      Enterprise

Lean: Optimal

Agile: Responsive

Competitive: Sustainable Influence

Transformation: Scalability and Sustainability