Creating Value through Collaboration™
Project Management for Product-Driven Environments
9:00am – 5:00pm
16 PDUs

Teqcorner
June 12 & 13, 2012
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Featuring...

~ Hector Del Castillo, PMP, CPM, CPMM;

This unique and powerful two day course has been designed by Lee Lambert of the Lambert Consulting Group and Greg Geracie of Actuation Consulting. This course offers 16 PDU's for PMI certified Project Management professionals (PMP) upon completion.

PURPOSE:
When project managers assume a leadership role in product development activities, they often experience culture shock. Product development projects typically last longer and are riskier to the business, highly visible, and involve potentially unfamiliar roles. To drive value in the organization, product and project managers need to work together closely. But lack of clarity on each other’s roles often leads to a failed project and a compromised product. This course teaches project managers what to expect from product management, how to discover blind spots and risks to your project within the product development process, and how to change the critical product management relationship from a collision course into a powerful partnership.

This course covers proven methodologies to increase the success of your product development projects and create value for your organization.These activities will help you and your project team gain deeper insight into the business drivers, product strategy, and the critical linkages that can improve project team performance in the product development process.


FORMAT:
To help assimilate the tools and techniques learned, this course contains a series of interactive sessions distributed throughout the training lessons. These interactive sessions include quizzes and video blackboard sessions which encourage analytic and creative thinking and further reinforce the concepts learned. The interactive sections provide an opportunity to engage with the course instructor via embedded video examples so you can compare notes and better understand the underlying concepts.

DAY ONE

Why Product Management Matters

• Look left and right
•”Product” defined
•The product management life cycle
• Stages and phases
• Growth stages impact

The Role of a Product Manager

• CEO of the product?
• Product manager role defined
• Plenty of responsibility
• Quiz number One

The Importance of Project Management

• What is a project?
• Product and project life cycle relationship
• Phases of a product development project

The Role of a Project Manager

• Roles and responsibilities
• Beyond the iron triangle
• Let’s talk size and maturity
• Projects through the lens of the product management life cycle
• Quiz number two

Know Your Blind Spots

• Global risks
• Project-specific risks
• Increasing the odds of success
• Project success criteria (blackboard video)

DAY TWO

Bringing it All Together

•Conceive, construct, commercialize
•Aligning product and project management
•Summary of key points

Core Learning Objectives Revisited

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Pre-requisites: None

Skill Level: Intermediate

Material: Product management material from the global best seller Take Charge Product Management. The course material also draws from The Guide to the Product Management and Marketing Body of Knowledge published by the Product Management Educational Institute. The project management material is drawn from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge authored by the Project Management Institute and S.T.O.P, The Project Management Survival Plan by Steven Starke.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Illustrate how the project life cycle integrates with and complements the product management life cycle so you can:

a. Become a more strategic project manager
b. Understand risks and blind spots that negatively impact your project and the product's success
c. Understand the factors that help your project and product succeed

2. Show how aligning product and project management leads to more effective teamwork and increased efficiency so you can...

a. Understand the the product management and project life cycles are deeply intertwined
b. Define your company's product production process and ensure that the major deliverables are in place
c. Deploy shared incentives, performance objectives and success criteria

3. Increase your ability to control project and product results by...

a. Expanding your product "domain" knowledge
b. Improving your core team's performance and collaboration
c. Ensuring robust and thoughtful planning, risk management, and communication

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