AI-powered meeting notes meet intelligent action: fractional CTO Brad Taylor shows how pairing Granola with Claude lets you stay present in meetings, then turn transcripts into updated decks, PRDs, and policy docs in minutes.
TCGen principal and Innovate Products Faster co-author Jeanne Bradford explores how visual tools help product teams make better decisions, communicate more clearly, and bring products to market faster.
Many leaders view Net Promoter Score as the standard for measuring customer satisfaction, but by itself NPS is useless for deciding what ought to change to drive improvement. Read this paper to learn how to develop habits that drive improvement in customer outcomes.
A good capacity model is your secret weapon for improving your ability to deliver value rapidly. This paper describes how capacity models work and steps to develop your own.
Measuring schedules is not new. Using this graphical tool, that allows you to quickly monitor performance to the initial plan and check key drivers that can take you off course, is a new technique for many organizations.
Product management methodology is a set of structured frameworks, principles, and practices that product managers and development teams use to plan, execute, and deliver products to market.
Have you made a clear decision about how to order Quality, Time, and Scope in your organization? If not, you may not be getting the results you want.
Better development habits let your team deliver more value, faster. This paper explores five key habits that the team at Agilent’s Software division adopted to double their productivity and build competitive advantage in the contested market for laboratory informatics.
The Stage-Gate Process divides product development into 5 stages where progress to the next stage is approved at the gate.
Product development life cycle describes the 4 stages of a product’s life: 1. Introduction, 2. Growth, 3. Maturity, 4. and Decline. It is fundamentally part of your product development strategy.
Discover the essentials of Agile documentation with TCGen’s comprehensive guide. Learn the importance, process, and best practices for effective Agile documentation in software development, and how it differs from traditional methods.
Learn about the digital product development process to start creating digital products that solve customer problems, provide value, and drive profits.
Two of the most effective and beneficial of these practices are sprint demos. Powered by these twin aspects of Agile, development teams of all manner of products can increase accountability and make programs faster and more predictable.
Managers want to optimize their resources by loading them up and have them do more on the priority list to satisfy the executive suite and improve project efficiency. The optimum load is approximately 2 projects – one large and one small.
The Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix is a tool that helps to estimate the amount of time a project will take in any given phase. It leverages past experience combined with the critical few, key drivers that impact a project’s schedule.
Preparation is key to a winning retrospective. The most important goals in most programs are time to market, a winning feature set, and quality. The best method is to collect the events that impacted these factors using a timeline.
Setting “project boundaries and conditions” at the time of a project’s approval is an effective way to create a “contract” between the management and project teams.
The new product introduction process is a set of repeatable steps or stages a company uses to realize the new product to satisfy a market need.
Of 12 Agile principles contained in the Manifesto, 75% are not specific to agile software development projects.
Maximize the success of your Agile project with these four crucial Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives.
A new product development process is a series of stages to turn an idea into a product that satisfies customer needs.
Product discovery can be a significant investment for any company. Before you launch a team into the discovery process, ensure that the idea is one where you can win and that it is worth it.
Are you wondering what is agile project management and when we use it? In this post, you will learn everything there is to know regarding agile project management.
Agile project management can help streamline construction processes and reduce delays. In this article, we explore how to be agile in the construction industry.
Learn what an agile project plan is, why it’s important, and how to create an in-depth agile plan for your company to streamline business operations
In this article, we’ll discuss these different methodologies. We’ll define key terms like Agile product management, Scrum project management, and the Waterfall methodology and see how they compare with each other
Learn what refactoring in Agile is, its benefits, principles, and techniques to follow in order to utilize Agile best for software development.
Unleash the power of Agile with our handpicked selection of 14 must-read books. Enhance your project management skills, master Scrum methodologies, and transform the way you work.
Understand what an Agile workflow is, how it’s different from Waterfall, and how to create an effective Agile workflow process for your own business.
Confused between Agile and Scrum? Understand the difference and similarities between the two terms to know what to apply to your business.
Time to market (TTM) is the length of time to develop a product from conception until it is released to the market and is available for sale.
Learn more about the product management process, its main stages, differentiation in terms of software and hardware, examples and much more in our guide.
Learn more about lean product development, its benefits, implementation, and tips for success in our guide.
Using product management frameworks is a way to dramatically improve product management and make your products a success. Read on to find the most powerful frameworks you could use to boost your business.
Product management is a complex process that begins with ideation and ends in commercialization of a new product.
These Product Development Process Tools are based on real life examples, and have been tested in the field with clients on multiple engagements. We often are stuck when first getting started working on a complex issue, because we don’t know how to take the first step.
The new product development process describes the steps to move from an idea to a finished product to generate a profit.
The fastest way to destroy an Agile implementation is to let functional silos get in the way. Unfortunately, it happens all the time. And it happens because many companies underestimate the organizational implications of a successful Agile implementation.
You can’t take the risk out of invention and no project is completely risk-free. But you can reduce the risk, even in the most innovative programs. How? By anticipating it. The Risk Management Matrix is an elegant way to anticipate, manage, and mitigate product development risks.
So-called “Waterfall” or “Phase-Gate” product development methodologies often give management the illusion that they are under control of the project, while they are actually just meddling and slowing it down.
Project post mortems can be an excellent tool for learning from mistakes and implementing process and decision-making improvements.
Innovation entails many kinds of risk: technical, market, or risks related to external events. Product developers can’t avoid it, but they can do more to mitigate risks.
The Change Impact Matrix is a descriptive tool that details the scope of the changes that everyone involved in a project will face. The matrix is useful for presenting the project context to upper management when discussing the project status, schedule, and progress to plan.
We’ve all experienced those mind-numbing meetings – there are a lot of people in the room, and many issues to resolve – but at the end of the meeting, little has been accomplished – what a waste of time and energy! One of the biggest factors driving inefficient meetings is organizational politics.
The Risk Mind Map enables a team to create a comprehensive risk profile. It allows management to anticipate where risks might arise and to prepare to meet these challenges more effectively.
Four-Fields Process Map Originated in Japan, the Four-Fields Map is a graphical technique most commonly applied to cross-functional processes.
Breaks projects down into tasks, shows the dependencies of one work stream on another, and provides real estimates, created by the people who actually perform the tasks.
Shows the team and management how much progress they are making on a project. An improvement on Gantt Charts in that it focuses on customers, and provides a more accurate estimate of the work performed on a project in-progress.
Social Innovation enables organizations to tap the wisdom of the crowd, both inside and outside of your company. The Social Innovation Maturity Scorecard helps determine your organization's maturity l...
The Schedule Prediction Accuracy Chart provides an early warning when a project fails to hit the schedule. This tool allows project teams to anticipate problems before they occur, and to intervene bef...
The Root Cause Diagram is a framework that helps you discover the ultimate cause of any outcome. Also known as the Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram, it is a graphical representation of an evidence-based m...
This overview of the TCGen methodology is utilized for Project Retrospectives and Process Reviews. These are conducted as a series of workshops that help a team constructively build a prioritized cons...
The Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix is a parametric tool that helps estimate the time to complete a given phase of a project. It creates a rough estimate using past experience combined with the critic...
The Four-Fields Map is a graphical technique most commonly applied to cross-functional processes. It emphasizes the elements of task, teamwork, and quality, with a focus on how you do the work rather...
This simplified RACI helps you clarify who owns what decisions within a project.