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Presenting at Dreamforce '13 as part of Founders Forum
A hands-on session around company and product strategy which will help you make decisions on how to grow your SaaS product business, including how to: -Measure growth and define success -Identify common roadblocks to company growth -Determine where to focus your efforts -Refine company & product portfolio strategy and trade-offs -Assess different potential opportunities Thursday, 11/21/2013 10:00 AM p.force.com/foundersforum Click here to learn more about my session in the Dreamforce app Recently a CEO suggested I consider doing some short term consulting work for his company. He wanted to know what questions I would ask to figure out how I could help his product management / products team.
This is what I came up with (what do you think?): -How do you balance short term improvements with long term innovation and new revenue opportunities? -How do you make product decisions using different market, portfolio, and client analysis techniques? -What are the components (including success metrics) you include in a business case or MRD for different situations? -Which among the many different PRD or requirement documentation options do you use? -How do you change the organization of a team and its processes based on the stage and size of the product line and the company? (i.e. How agile should you be?) I recently gave a talk at Google on Strategy and Product Discovery. We discussed: Discovering Features and Products (Product Strategy) Discovering Products and Product Lines (Product Line / Company Strategy) Marty Cagan: Using High Fidelity Prototypes for Product Discovery I put a few more product management and product marketing slides from my Stanford Continuing Education class on my website: http://www.johngibbon.com/pm-slides.html
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