Product Management Articles

Simon Leyland

Simon Leyland
More than 20 years experience working with product data at three OEMs and the worlds biggest automotive competitive data supplier.
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Recent Posts

Interval Roadmaps: Product Roadmap Innovation at Your Fingertips

Our new Interval Roadmap converts our dashboards into a streamlined vertical roll-up, clearly displaying product plans by time intervals.

Now, your product management teams can easily understand and monitor their development plans by month, quarter or year, over a 1-, 3-, or 5-year timeframe.

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A Guide to Platform Organizations and Their Evolution

The structure of an organization defines its hierarchy, communication flow, and allocation of responsibilities, fundamentally shaping its efficiency and effectiveness. A well-designed organizational structure is crucial as it directly influences decision-making processes, operational efficiency, and employee morale. An optimal structure not only supports the strategic goals of the organization but also enhances its ability to adapt to changing market dynamics and external pressures.

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The Role of DevOps in Accelerating Product Roadmap Delivery

Streamlining Development to Deployment in Manufacturing

In the competitive landscape of cyber physical product development (physical products with a software component), the ability to rapidly deliver new features and updates is crucial for winning over and retaining customers. These results are easier said than done, as cyber-physical product manufacturers must navigate the challenges of integrating hardware and software development at scale across diverse portfolios. Development frameworks, collaborative software, and cross-functional teams are all key solutions that make product delivery easier.

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Just Released: Enhanced Module Management and Category Navigation

At Gocious, we're dedicated to supporting our customers' needs. When they tell us how a certain feature or capability would make their team's work easier, we listen and take the feedback seriously. Every quarter, we release updates that make dynamic roadmapping more effective and efficient for all levels of an organization, from lead engineers to product management teams to executive-level positions. 

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Compliance Management: Meeting Regulatory Standards While Maintaining Flexibility in Product Roadmaps

Navigating the landscape of regulations and compliance standards is an unavoidable reality for manufacturers. With varying requirements in different regions and industries, the challenge lies in effectively managing these complexities. One approach to addressing this challenge is the implementation of compliance management systems (CMS), which serve as structured frameworks for ensuring adherence to legal obligations and industry standards. By integrating compliance considerations into the product roadmap, manufacturers can ensure that all teams are aware and informed, enabling proactive management of regulatory requirements throughout the product development process.

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Webinar replay: Collaboration made efficient using the Gocious - Jira Integration

Our main topic in this webinar is the importance of efficient collaboration between product management and development teams, particularly regarding the benefits of integrating Gocious's platform with JIRA. 

 

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Webinar replay: Gocious product roadmap management

There are plenty of product roadmap tools out there today. Still, our research has shown there is a clear need to improve product roadmaps to ensure teams of teams are aligned, the entire portfolio meets strategic business objectives, and there is efficiency in re-using components and increasing innovation. Many roadmap platforms today:

  • Organize teams around one product at a time, not your entire portfolio
  • Are more focused to meet the needs of developing software rather than physical products
  • Can force you into specific ways of working rather than being flexible enough to adapt to the unique requirements different manufacturers do have

Struggle to understand the dependencies of product content across your product teams and your overall organization

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Product Management tools: today and tomorrow

Product Management plays a key role inside companies driven by their products; it’s instrumental for organizational growth and strategic market advantages. 

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Webinar replay: Tools for modern product management

The function of product management is evolving within manufacturing companies.  Senior leadership is pressing for more growth, more innovation, more diversification, more market expansion.  All of this falls in the lap of product management to figure out the path forward. It is more important than ever for product management to revisit the tools in their proverbial toolbox.

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Webinar replay: Optimize your product fit using past performance

Launching a new product can be a bit like a science experiment. You have made observations and created a hypothesis with data that supports your claims. Next, the hypothesis gets approved so you launch the product thus testing it.

Now it ss time to draw conclusions and refine the hypothesis.  

But this presents you with a problem. Your original hypothesis data is not the same as that returning from the real world. So what can you do?

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