Silicon Valley Code Camp Preso: Deconstructing The Code For Product Excellence
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Deconstructing The Code For Product Excellence by Cindy F. Solomon 1:45 PM Saturday Oct 5 Room: 4305
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Everyone is passionate about product excellence - but in reality, is it possible to achieve? This interactive discussion will lay the foundation for how to define product excellence in your organization, product team according to your own standards; recognize the 7 phases of the product management lifecycle; understand perspectives of customers, users and others consuming your code, and isolate soft skills to help you communicate, collaborate and align with non-technical team members http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Session/2013/deconstructing-the-code-for-product-excellence
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Deconstructing The Code For Product Excellence
by Cindy F. Solomon1:45 PM Saturday Oct 5 Room: 4305
Forwarding Product Leaders
• Creating brilliant products is a group effort. • It takes designers, developers, marketers – really, everyone in the product ecosystem.
• Startup Product Summit is the premiere place to gain valuable insights from product stars that have been in the trenches and have the battle scars to prove it.
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• Founder, Host, Producer Global Product Management Talk • Organizer, Startup Product Talks.Producer, Startup Product Summit. • Startup Product movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective.• Contributing writer for the SVPMA, 42 Rules Product Marketing, and ProdBOK, Product Management Body of Knowledge• >15 years of web development, services, and software product marketing and management at Apple, Vadem, NetObjects and start-ups in Silicon Valley. www.linkedin.com/in/cfsolomon/
Cindy F. Solomon, CPM, CPMM
The Global Product Management Talk • started with a tweet that traveled 7400 miles• Pioneered Socratic Twitter Chat Format• Discovered difficult to tweet & discuss complex issues• Started recording thought leaders via Skype• Became top 10 business podcast on BlogTalkRadio• 2 years, >100 chats, 30,000 listeners/week, new programming
• Spawned in-person community >1700 members• Conference: Startup Product Summit• Startup Product Academy at Broadway Studios, SF
Listening to the market, to practitioners, to what’s needed to forward future product leaders
Startup Product
A movement for Product Excellence• Holistic view of product• Cross-functional, cross-discipline
collaboration
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1.RECOGNIZE WHO IS IN THE ROOM (who)2. ESTABLISH CONTEXT (why)3. DEFINE TERMS (what)4. SOLVE PAIN / PROVIDE VALUE (how)
4 Steps to Collaboration
Blank Slide
(I’ve got 50 slides prepared – however, none of them are more important than your answers to the following questions)
Questions
• Who’s here?• What do YOU want to get?• What does product excellence mean
to you?• What metrics do you use to measure
excellence?• What’s your success rate?• What’s not being voiced?
How Do You Define Product Excellence?
"Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.“ —Jeff Bezos, 2012
Product Excellence Depends on where you’re touching
What Makes A Product Great Depends…
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•On who you’re asking•On where you’re looking•On what you’re touching•On where it is in the Product
Lifecycle•On who’s using it, etc.
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The Invisible Computer
Donald Norman mapped lifecycle of products
why good products can fail…
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lifecycle of products“In its early days, a technology cannot meet all the needs of its customers.
Early adopters need the technology and they are willing to suffer inconvenience to get it.
With time, the technology matures, offering better performance and higher reliability.
When the technology exceeds the basic needs of most of its customers, there is a major change in customer behavior.
Emotional reaction, pride of ownership, and pleasurability all can become major selling points.”The Invisible Computer Donald Norman
Stage 1
Pure function is all that matters: If the one thing it does is the only option available, people
will be happy with it.
Stage 2 Feature Wars
The number of features matters because frequently the buyer doesn't understand what each feature actually means.
Later in this phase, specific features do make a difference as
people are looking for certain features to make their purchase
decisions.
Stage 3 Experience Wars
The experience and total cost of ownership matters most.
Products with fewer -but better- features will trump
the more feature-laden winners of Stage 2.
The actual item becomes absorbed into a larger
product mix. Individual features of the
technology no longer matter, but become a
price/performance issue for the integrator.
Stage 4 Commodities
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There is a lifecycle that every product, startup, idea and project passes through to be realized
that parallels the “creative process”
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Focusing on where the product is in its lifecycle enables a conversation
that brings us all together on what will serve the
product most to arrive at product/market fit, sustain
growth and generate revenue streams.
Identify Where The Product Is in the lifecycle
AIPMM Product Management Lifecycle Framework
Become Expert At Speaking “Product”DELIVER RESULTS ACROSS ALL PHASES
AIPMM Product Management Lifecycle Framework
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1.Business, organization view
2.Product Management functional view
3.Personal (team member) view
How You Define Product Excellence Depends on Where You’re Looking
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Solomon says
“Product Managers create context for the product within the company, within the development process, with all the stakeholders and within the industry, market, channel and end-user community.”
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Building a successful product management organization requires not only developing the skills of your product managers, but making sure they know how to work effectively with the rest of the product team, as a key part of your company’s overall product development organization and product development process, and knowing how to create the type of products your company requires, and knowing how to compete successfully in the markets you play in.
Marty Cagan, SVPG
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - NOUN
BUSINESS FOUNDATION
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Product Management
Product Management - Verb
Product-specific (inbound) responsibilities:•Product strategy development (high level vision for how the product drives the business model and competes against competition)•Requirements and use case gathering and development (both internal and external customers)•Requirement prioritization•Create specification (detailed to address requirements)•Product life cycle management (including release definitions, roadmap development, etc.)•Project management - manage the day-to-day execution of the product team (QA, development, design, copy, etc.)
Market-specific (outbound) responsibilities:•Product positioning and marketing messaging•Competitive monitoring and analysis•Collateral development explaining product and features•Training and education of internal and external customers on new product and features•Launch campaign development and support - e.g. PR campaigns, tradeshows, webinars, social media marketing, etc.
General business responsibilities:P/L management
Organization Function
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The PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - thing Department, Group
Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager,Product Owner,Scrum MasterAgile Project ManagerProgram Manager ?
Strategic?
Execution?
Customer driven?
Sales driven?
Technology driven?
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PRODUCT MANAGEMENT You
job, position, career, profession, identity Your Personal Value –
what you’re providing and what you’re getting from being or doing product management
PRODUCT MANAGEMENTProfessional People
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How Do You Drive Alignment of Product
perspective across all functions?
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Listen
• What are their concerns, issues, focus?• What motivates them?• How do they define and measure product success?• What do they need to guarantee success of the product?• What can you provide them that forwards their success?
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Ask Questions, Listen & Learn Their
Language
Translate the Road Map For Various Audiences
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Gain Respect of Developers
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Become A Better Leader
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Attributes of High Performing Product Teams
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