- You need to clearly convey the direction and strategy of your product portfolio to gain alignment, support, and funding from your organization.
- IT organizations are traditionally organized to deliver initiatives in specific periods of time. This conflicts with product delivery, which continuously delivers value over the lifetime of a product.
- Delivering multiple products together creates additional challenges because each product has its own pedigree, history, and goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Empowered product managers and product owners are the key to ensuring your delivery teams are delivering the right value at the right time to the right stakeholders.
- Establishing operationally aligned product families helps bridge the gap between enterprise priorities and product enhancements.
- Leadership must be aligned to empower and support Agile values and product teams to unlock the full value realization within your organization.
Impact and Result
- Common understanding of product management and Agile delivery.
- Commitment to support and empower product teams.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
7.3/10
Overall Impact
$32,564
Average $ Saved
20
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
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Waterloo Region District School Board
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
Hans was very flexible in the approach we want to take and was willing to engage in the discussion. He has a good grasp of the agile approach we w... Read More
TAB Bank
Workshop
8/10
$64,999
20
The best part was the access to the knowledge from Hans and the team. The ease of which suggested material was referenced, made available and share... Read More
The City Of Columbus
Workshop
4/10
N/A
N/A
The best parts were the guided conversations with our staff. The worst part was that the final deliverable provided only offered a single insight, ... Read More
Workshop: Enable Product Delivery – Executive Leadership Workshop
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Understanding Your Top Challenges
The Purpose
Understand the drivers for your product transformation.
Key Benefits Achieved
Define the drivers for your transition to product-centric delivery.
Activities
Outputs
What is driving your organization to become product focused?
- List of challenges and drivers
Module 2: Transitioning From Projects to Product-Centric Delivery
The Purpose
Understand the product transformation journey and differences.
Key Benefits Achieved
Identify the cultural, behavioral, and leadership changes needed for a successful transformation.
Activities
Outputs
Define the differences between projects and product delivery
- List of differences
Module 3: Enterprise Agility and the Value of Change
The Purpose
Understand why smaller iterations increase value realization and decrease accumulated risk.
Key Benefits Achieved
Leverage smaller iterations to reduce time to value and accumulated risk to core operations.
Activities
Outputs
What is business agility?
- Common understanding about the value of smaller iterations
Module 4: Defining Products and Product Management in Your Context
The Purpose
Establish an organizational starting definition of products.
Key Benefits Achieved
Tailor product management to meet the needs and vision of your organization.
Activities
Outputs
What is a product? Who are your consumers?
- Product definition
Identify enablers and blockers of product ownership
- List of enablers and blockers of product ownership
Define a set of guiding principles for product management
- Set of guiding principles for product management
Module 5: Connecting Product Management to Agile Practices
The Purpose
Understand the relationship between product management and product delivery.
Key Benefits Achieved
Optimize product management to prioritize the right changes for the right people at the right time.
Activities
Outputs
Discussions
- Common understanding
Module 6: Commit to Empowering Agile Product Teams
The Purpose
Personalize and commit to supporting product teams.
Key Benefits Achieved
Embrace leadership and cultural changes needed to empower and support teams.
Activities
Outputs
Your management culture
- Your management culture map
Personal Cultural Stop, Start, and Continue
- Personal Cultural Stop, Start, and Continue list
Now, Next, Later to support product owners
- Now, Next, Later roadmap