PMBO 102: Workshop for Product Builders

PMBO 102: Workshop for Product Builders
₹150,000
480 mins
In-Person, 2 Days

** I do not sell any framework or certificate **

The goal of PMBO 102 is to elevate product managers from User Story writers and backlog groomers to a level where they will strive to ensure business outcomes.

It is designed to help product managers put strategic alignment into action down to the brass tacks of execution.

Also, ensuring that the "Why" and "Whether" of the product are never lost in the shuffle of "How" and "When" of the delivery.

This hands-on workshop is less like lectures and more like a guided trek in a demanding terrain.

Module 1: The Strategic Anchor

  1. Thinking Business before Backlog,
  2. Understanding the difference between User & Buyer personas, and how it impacts product success,
  3. The Product Vision Canvas, Assumptions, Risk mitigation, North Star,
  4. Defining the Common End-Objective for PM, Eng, QC, and Stakeholders.

Module 2: Decision Governance to avoid Feature Factory

  1. Always thinking WHY and WHETHER in the background,
  2. Preventing the Feature Factory by validating before & while building,
  3. Avoiding/Reducing waste,
  4. Using Market Feedback data,
  5. Pride in Value shipped, not in Story Points.

Module 3: WHAT & WHEN (The Delivery)

  1. Outcome-Driven Roadmaps rather than feature lists,
  2. Think Big, Plan small, Act now, Seek frequent feedback,
  3. Translating strategy into a coherent execution plan,
  4. Deconstructing Market Value into Vertical Story Slices,
  5. User Stories that focus on Market Value, not on the number of features,
  6. Culture, Common language, Acceptance Criteria, and Definition of Done.

Module 4: One Team One Goal

  1. Importance of One Common Goal
  2. Silos hurt all silos.
  3. How local optimization hurts
  4. QC for parallel testing
  5. QC & Dev for discovery
  6. Dev & QC for VoC
  7. Transparency to improve the efficiency of the system as a whole

Module 5: Better Predictability, Less Anxiety

  1. Building a delivery engine that Stakeholders and Sales can trust,
  2. Bite small, Chew well to avoid Big-Bang surprises,
  3. Blunder-o-Meter for self-auditing,
  4. Keeping Tech Debt in control,
  5. Steady Flow is better than Rare Flood,
  6. Information Radiator is better than the weekly bulletin.

Module 6: Boosting the Market Impact

  1. Sprint planning with laser-sharp focus on RoI
  2. Frequent Voice of Customer feedback; leveraging Telemetry for objective truth
  3. Quick course correction when needed
  4. Value Shipped is the #1 metric

Material I use in this workshop:

  1. -Context of the participants,
  2. -Challenges of the participants,
  3. -Market Needs & User Stories of the participants,
  4. -Sides to convey ideas & explain what-works, what-does-not,
  5. -The Product Manager’s Playbook: This is the interactive map of the terrain we will climb. It serves as a living document and a permanent reference for your team after the workshop concludes: https://gitmind.com/app/docs/mrat4kz7

About the Sherpa who will guide you in this tough terrain: https://tinyurl.com/y2x356dh

Workshop Format

In this in-person workshop, I sparingly use PPTs.

The workshop relies on realistic simulation by playing the roles of Buyers, Users, Stakeholders, Product Managers, Dev & QC.

For this simulation, we can use User Stories and scenarios from your work environment. We will refer to your challenges as examples to discover how to tackle them best, and I trust you will make valuable discoveries on your own also.

If you wish, I can do a Gemba walk for work practice assessment, in which I interact face-to-face with all the team members.

The recommendations I give in this workshop are completely based on my experience of working with numerous teams from various domains and backed by my first-hand experience about what worked & what did not.

Rather than following a linear and stage-by-stage process, modern product development thrives on an incremental and spiral approach. The same philosophy drives the six modules of PMBO 102, ensuring that product managers learn to navigate complexity through continuous iteration rather than an outdated & rigid sequence of modules.

Duration:

  1. 2 Days.
  2. With assessment on 15th, 30th, 60th, day (& intervention if needed)

Participants:

  1. Product Managers, APMs, Sr Dev, Sr. QC members.
  2. Ideally, from the same Squad / Pod / Team to ensure the impact assessment on 15/30/60 day is measurable.
  3. Max 8-10 participants.

Changes to expect from this workshop:

Participants will show a noticeable improvement in

  1. - value-flow to market,
  2. - reduced waste creation,
  3. - work culture of Ship-Small-Ship-Often,
  4. - team's Outward Focus & obsession for RoI,
  5. - team's mindset for working towards the Common Goal,
  6. - team's Silo-less Work Culture,
  7. - improved predictability, transparency & reduced anxiety.
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