Public Product Management Training Day 2:
Working with Development

How do you guarantee an on-time product delivery with a feature-set that meets your customers needs? Accurately translating market needs into product requirements and delivering on time is of huge value to your company. It increases product sales and dramatically improves the efficiency of your product development team. Day two of Tarigo’s product management training course concentrates on the requirements process; how to build a requirements document, write and prioritize requirements, assess technical feasibility, and work with your company to keep delivery dates on track. Tarigo’s product management training provides the framework and real-world techniques to help companies deliver on-time and on-target.

The Requirements Specification Process

This initial session sets out to define the importance of a good requirements process, and the elements that go into making that process work effectively. Delegates find out about the risks and pitfalls in the requirements process, and the huge benefits that the right process can bring to their company. Walking through an end-to-end requirements process, delegates learn how to implement the process and make sure it is used consistently, improving product quality and product take-up.

Key areas covered:

• The benefits of a requirements process
• Efficiency gains through requirements
• Key elements of a requirements process
• Requirements process description

User Profiles and Scenarios

Product managers must understand who their customers are and how those customers will use the product. Understanding their customers’ level of technical skill, working environment, and likes/dislikes leads to a product that better meets customer needs. In this session delegates learn how to build User Profiles, User Scenarios, and Use Cases to help clarify product requirements, and how to use these tools to give a more complete picture of product requirements to the development team

Key areas covered:

• Developing User Profiles and Scenarios
• Building Use Cases
• Using profile, user scenarios and profiles to support development

Writing Accurate Requirements

When it comes to writing actual requirements, language is important. Being too ambiguous, or describing an implementation method, or using non-testable language all increase the chances of the end product not meeting customer expectations. In this session, delegates learn what makes a good requirement, how to avoid the common mistakes, and how to structure the requirements document so that it remains relevant throughout the product lifecycle.

• What makes a good requirement?
• The language of requirements
• Structure a requirements document

Prioritization

No matter how well planned, requirements can change during product development; new customers might have new requirements, or issues may be uncovered at the design phase. Prioritization is a great tool to help product managers’ deal with change and manage risk. In this session, delegates are taught how to produce and maintain a prioritized feature list, use it to manage risk and requirement tradeoff, and how it can assist in the early delivery of a product.

Key areas covered:

• Feature prioritization benefits
• Getting stakeholder support
• Managing risk with prioritization
• Maintaining priorities through the development lifecycle

Delivering On-Time and On-Target

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of product delivery is ensuring that the product you define is delivered on time and feature-complete. There are enormous pressures working against you; external pressures from customers and competition combine with internal pressures from development, sales, and senior management. Couple this with limited visibility of development progress, and the potential to miss delivery dates or lose key product features becomes a very real threat. In this session delegates investigate the reasons behind feature and date changes, strategies to minimize their effect and methods of working with development to gain real clarity on progress versus plan.

Key areas covered:

• Why releases go off track
• Dealing with external pressures
• Dealing with internal pressures
• Gaining clarity of progress vs plan

“Enjoyable, informative and extremely practical. Take this course, you won't regret it"
Steven Logan, Product Manager, CTI Data Solutions Ltd

"An impressive and extremely in-depth training course! Can’t wait to return to the office and implement the skills I have learnt and use the results."
Alex Smith, Product Manager, TXT4