Product Management

Published date: April 15, 2024, Version: 1.0

Overview:

Product managers are a group of executies who ensure that the products and solutions meet the economic business goals established by the portfolio. They collaborate with Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains to build the required functionality. Additionally, they collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to ensure proper delivery of products to the market.

Product Management Skills

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Understand customer needs and validate solutions by leveraging market research and continuous exploration

  • Ensure that development value streams are creating feasible and sustainable products and solutions by developing a clear model of how the solution provides value to customers, understanding the cost structure of all components and suppliers, creating any necessary pricing or revenue-generating elements and developing customer-centric ROI models that align with the value provided

  • Develop & communicate program vision and roadmap to the Agile Teams, while defining the s of the system.

  • Support the flow of work through the program Kanban and into the program backlog, ensuring enough s are always ready in the backlog

  • Define releases iincluding new s, architecture, and allocations for technical debt.

  • Understand the scope of upcoming enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architects to jointly sequence the Architectural Runway, that will host new business functionality

Secondary Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with System Architect/Engineering to define and maintain the Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs) to ensure that the solution meets relevant standards and other system quality requirements

  • Ensure that marketing and sales teams have the information they need to communicate value and execute against the sales objectives

  • Work with legal and compliance professionals to ensure the product meets all necessary requirements

Technical Skills :

  • Agile Tools and Methodologies

  • Data Analytics

  • Value Realization

  • Design Thinking

  • Requirements Gathering

  • User Experience

Soft Skills:

  • Stakeholder Management

  • Risk Management

  • Value Stream Mapping

  • Vendor Management

Tool Skills:

  • Jira, Jira Align

  • Sharepoint

  • Powerpoint

  • Reporting Tools (Tableau/Power BI)