Training Courses

Product Strategy Workshop

Our 2-day workshop offered through the American Strategic Management Institute, June 4-5 (Wash DC)

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Jumpstart Your Roadmap Planning

A one-day deep dive onsite at your location to help your product team get your product on track to achieve strong business results. 

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Upgrade Your Product Requirements

A one-day workshop onsite at your location to help your product team create better requirements that focus on user needs. 

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Process & Training

Tune Up Your Organization

Effective product management in any company is driven by three core fundamentals - clear role definition, aligned processes and skilled staff.   Product Arts can help you in each of these areas, driven by your specific needs and goals.

We can work with you to improve the performance of your organization in the followng areas:

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Clear Roles & Goals

Aligned Processes

Skilled Staff

Product Management (and it's near cousins - Program Managment and Project Management) is not a one-size-fits-all function within any organization.  While there are some generic activities product managers generally do, in reality, the role is adaptive to the specific needs of an organization. 

These are driven by company size, product lifecycle, stategic objectives and other available staff in key positions.   Some areas that Product Arts can assist with include:
  • Job descriptions
  • Org structure options
  • Performance metrics
  • Department missions

Once your roles and responsibilities are defined, some specific processes need to be aligned across functional organizations to maximize the product manager's impact. 

These processes can be mostly informal or highly specified to match your culture.  Some of the processes we can assist with include:
  • Overall product development process
  • Requirements process
  • Roadmap and porfolio planning process
  • Go-to-Market process
  • Feature requests & prioritization
  • Release planning

Product management organizations consist of individuals who have nearly always come "from somewhere else", including Development, Marketing, Sales, Support and more. 

This means they may be highly skilled in their native function, but needing improved skills in other areas to effectively drive your product needs.    Product Arts can help you with:
  • General activities training
  • Tailored courses in requirements, roadmap planning, business cases, and more
  • Interviewing, staff selection, staff assessment
  • One-on-one coaching
  • Interim department leadership
 

Product Strategy Workshop

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June 4-5, 2012
Location - Washington, DC

Offered through the American Strategic Management Institute, this 2-day course walks you through the assessment of your product portfolio gaps and develops a plan to address them.   Read More...  

Product Requirements     

One-Day Workshop to Help You Satisfy User Needs

Are you in a quandary as to where to start with your requirements and what level of detail to provide?  Is your requirements process more ad-hoc than organized?  Confused about the difference between a BRD, MRD, PRD, or FRD?   This onsite workshop is for you.   Read More...


Roadmap Planning    

One-Day Workshop to Gain Clarity in your Product's Future

You're busy.   Daily demands pull you in every direction to support your product.  So when do you get time to actually think about your product strategically and where it needs it go?  When you do have the time, what should you focus on and how do you get alignment internally?  This one-day workshop is designed to help you.   Read More...
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