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
To Agile or Not to Agile: That is the Question for Manufacturers (Part 3 of 3)
PART 3
The impact on your org and how to be successful
To catch up with this series, please see here for Part 1: product planning for durable goods; and here for Part 2: getting started in our new integrated world.
To Agile or Not to Agile: That is the Question for Manufacturers (Part 2 of 3)
PART 2
Getting started in our new integrated world
Please read Part 1 of this 3-part series on the move to Agile here: product planning for durable goods.
To Agile or Not to Agile: That is the Question for Manufacturers (Part 1 of 3)
PART 1
Product planning for durable goods
Seeing first-hand what our durable goods manufacturing clients face daily as they aim to update their processes got us thinking about what it really means to effect change in their environment. What tangible and intangible factors must be considered. How to approach an endeavor that they perceive will append their entire product management operation. Naturally, we mean the “switch” from more traditional Waterfall models to newer Agile ones.
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.
What’s in a name? The different shades of Product Manager.
Product leaders as revenue growth drivers
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.
Product Management: the foundation of a successful business
Product Management has a strong strategic role within product-driven organizations.And yet, it is fraught with archaic processes and tools. Here, we discuss topics that every Product Manager, CEO and any team member contributing to product planning should be familiar with.
Adapting Your Product Strategy Assessment for Today's Market
If you want your company to grow and expand, the key to success is a solid product strategy. Your product strategy must be flexible and nimble to quickly react to changing market conditions. Our research has found that product managers rarely use specialized tools to set the strategy of their portfolio. Today’s general productivity tools make it difficult for companies to track and make changes and set their product strategy to adapt to the changing market needs in an agile and efficient way.
Just Released: Product Specification Equations
We are super excited to announce our latest capability for product managers to enhance their product scoring capability and define product specifications more accurately. With the introduction of equations, product teams can define specifications that can result from calculations based on features on the product.
Just Released: Categorizing Product Lines
Organizations with many products or variants need a way to organize their team and products to be easily managed and analyzed. Using the Gocious platform, you can organize your products into product lines. Today we are happy to announce that, in addition, you can now group your product lines under different categories. With categories, you can view all your product line changes and launch roadmap grouped by category.