Product Strategy and Portfolio Tools
Pearls of Innovation - Visual Tools to Make Better Product Decisions
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.
Technology Roadmap
Technology Roadmaps help teams determine which technologies to incorporate into a given product. They help anticipate risks by enabling a degree of visibility into the future. They reveal potential ar...
Social Community Matrix
Companies are using social solutions to help accelerate innovation and product development by creating a managed virtual community. In these communities users share ideas, build on them through collab...
Project Retrospective Methodology
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...
Product Vision & Selection Criteria Tool
The Product Vision & Selection Criteria tool offers a way to evaluate the many factors that go into product and portfolio decisions by ensuring their alignment with product development strategy, and a...
Product Roadmap
The Product Roadmap is a visual explanation of a company's strategy. It helps align engineering, marketing, sales, support, and the C-suite toward common product development goals. Product Roadmaps in...
Product Radar Chart
The Product Radar Chart offers a way to evaluate and communicate the factors that go into product and portfolio decisions by graphing the key dimensions of a product or concept against alternatives. I...
Product Portfolio Management Framework
The Product Portfolio Management Framework enables an intentional allocation of R&D and Marketing investments that realizes a risk/reward mix as determined by overall corporate strategy. By diagrammin...
Product Development Strategy Process
Effective product development strategy connects long-term goals to the daily management of product concepts. A strategic product planning process links together the company's vision, with the strategi...
Product Derivative Chart
A Product Derivative Chart is a diagram that depicts a set of related products over time. It shows related products that share underlying design components. It also shows the lifecycle of the platform...
Innovate Products Faster
Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development
Comparative Funding Model
This tool helps shift the debate about funding new innovation projects from the political to the strategic. By looking at your funding levels over time, it helps to communicate to business unit manage...