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Best Practices for Product Managers

Tags : Best practices, software product manager, product software, software products, product development, product management software, product manager careers, product life cycle management, product marketing manager, product manager, product management, software
Industry : IT Products, IT Services
Functional Area : Application Software, Productivity & Performance
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Product management practices can make the difference between your product becoming a cash cow or an also-ran contender? And, how and when should you implement them? What steps do you take to get started? Here we'll learn how the most successful product managers apply the seven best practices on a day-to-day basis, and how you can begin to use them to improve the profitability of your own products from the members of Toostep.

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There are few billion dollar corporations in the Indian IT industry. Our IT services firms are moving up in the value chain. Their services have moved from manpower supply to providing offshore product development and maintenance facilities. Many Indian IT companies have championed product maintenance, design, coding, support and testing. Few became successful in product development. How many have championed in project management area? Did we reach maturity level in project management? Where do we stand in project management area in the IT world? Do we have successful project management methodologies in our organisations? What is the awareness of team members and other stakeholders about pr...
G.P.Sudhakar  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
I was really shocked to see significant portions of my article titled "Best Practices in Project Management" published in the 14-Aug-2006 issue of Express Computer, cut, pasted and presented to you by Mr. Mohan Nair. Although Mr. Nair mentions the...
Upendra Pratap Singh  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
The article is thought provoking for IT & ITES industries and gives a new insight to project Managers of non IT and ITES sectors. The article is laudable.
 
 
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Most software projects fail. In fact, a report says that more than 80% are unsuccessful -- either because they are over budget, late, missing functions or a combination of all three. Moreover, 30% of software projects are so poorly executed that they are canceled before completion. However, there is help out there. To vastly improve the success of any software development project, it's helpful to follow these 10 simple guidelines: Recruit skilled and experienced people. Today's environment is more complex that ever. Tools help, but in the end, inexperienced people produce mediocre results at best and, in most cases, fail because they don't understand good project management and the best way...
 
 
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Deliver customer value, not product features If you want to be a good product manager, try to deliver the fewest features which will provide the most value. Customers buy products because of the needs that the product fulfills and the problems the product solves. Features in and of themselves are useless — they exist to fill a need. Customers will find product features valuable only if those features satisfy a need and if the act of filling that need is something which is valuable to the customer. Stop gathering requirements A manager understand unmet needs and use that insight to drive requirements. A product manager who just “gathers requirements” is doing nothing more than taking orders ...
Jaygopal Raghavan  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
Absolutely well said however i would like to add one more point which is very important- get your placing and pricing right. Quite often we have seen good products getting trumped because of the wrong pricing and similarly even the availability...
 
 
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Product Development: Product development is the process of designing, creating, and marketing an idea or product. The product can either be one that is new to the marketplace or one that is new to your particular company, or, an existing product that has been improved. In many instances a product will be labeled new and improved when substantial changes have been made. The Product Development Process :All product development goes through a similar planning process. Although the process is a continuous one, it is crucial that companies stand back after each step and evaluate whether the new product is worth the investment to continue. That evaluation should be based on a specific set of obje...
 
 
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1 Reducing rates and making Discount packages
2 Staff recognition and orientation
Rajat Mittal  |  Supported idea  "Personalized and efficient service"  |  2 years ago
Direct employees to desired performance levels with personal, hands-on coaching techniques and milestone-setting activities. The most common challenges for hotel managers revolved around motivating staff so that negative behaviors such as high...
Amar Nath Mukherje  |  Added idea  "Save consumptions of energy "  |  2 years ago
Save fuel and electricity.Close some wings. Open package for any domestic functions like wedding anniversory, Birth day party etc.Draw prople for some dinner and game like Housie etc.
Mihir Jhaveri, PMP, CSCM  |  Supported idea  "Reducing rates and making Discount packages"  |  2 years ago
Hi All I agree that reducing rates and making discount packages is good one, but I feel it is not a best practices to reduce the rates as it is short term approach. Need to see if how to reduce the cost element and have the still the same profit...
 
 
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1 SAP solution manager
2 SAP Product Life Cycle Management (PLM)
Dhananjay Raturi  |  Added idea  "SAP Product Life Cycle Management (PLM)"  |  2 years ago
http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/plm/index.epx It's fairly mature. Would suggest though to refer to Gartner's magic quadrant on PPM.  
Sanjay Gambhir  |  Added idea  "SAP solution manager"  |  3 years ago
SAP' Solution Manager should provide you all that you are looking for. SAP Solution Manager is a platform that provides the integrated content, tools, and methodologies that you need to implement, support, operate and monitor your SAP and non-SAP...
Praveen Asthana  |  Supported idea  "SAP solution manager"  |  3 years ago
Some of it features are: Central access to all tools for your project (Project Administration, Business Blueprint, Configuration, Test Workbench, Group Rollout templates) Central management of all information for your Project (roadmaps, system...
 
 
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Many manufacturing companies consider mechatronic development simply as the merger of several engineering disciplines with which they may be very familiar. Although mechatronics is indeed an amalgamation of well-established disciplines, it is the convergence of these very familiar practices with new and emerging market forces that presents engineering and product development challenges. Companies that have traditionally excelled in one or two of the engineering disciplines involved in mechatronics are often challenged by the need to synchronize the development cycles of fundamentally different disciplines and integrate them into a single system. Manufacturers need to recognize that mechatro...
 
 
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