Training Options
George’s principle message is:
Product Managers must know their users like they know their best friends in order to make good product decisions and defend those decisions to management.
- Are your product managers order takers or strategic thinkers?
- Do they understand your users’ and customers’ challenges?
- Does your team communicate and work effectively together?
- Are your requirements processes standardized and efficient?
Improve Your Team
A typical consultations starts with an analysis and report highlighting areas for improvement in your product team structure and activities.
Then I deliver the training your team needs most.
Product Manager mentoring
Product experts looking skill up on their own can learn the skills, shortcuts and mistakes that I have made in 20 years of software product management.
Speaking Engagements
Your team doesn’t need a cheerleader. They are already motivated.
They need to learn a better way to manage products.
Improve Your Team
Processes, Documentation and Relationships are the foundation of an effective, smooth-running product team.
This service includes an assessment and/or training for Product managers, owners and analysts. If needed, we can include Development, QA and UX staff in redefining processes and communications.
I review Staffing, Market Research & Requirements Gathering, Team Communication and Process Standardization.
Through interviews and observations, I gain an understanding of your current product related workflows, then provide recommend improvements.
Your Team
- I help your team right-size and skill up to be more efficient and more effective.
Your Workflows
- We work together to improve communication and process flow between customers/users/business stakeholders and your product managers and your broader product team.
Your SOPs
- Ensure clarity and completeness of documentations including roadmaps, User Stories, style guides and more.
An assessment typically takes a few days to interview team members and review documentations.
Cost will vary by the size of the team or number of product teams. Contact me to discuss details and pricing.
Product Manager Mentoring
I have managed more than a dozen products across multiple industries. Product management should be a fun and challenging job. But it should not be painful.
I can help you handle, or avoid the pitfalls that make many PMs feel like order-taking clerks.
Overview
In mentoring sessions, we can talk about any topic you like, and I’ll provide options on how to overcome these challenges.
Experience is the best teacher. But it takes time and you need results now.
Format
Typically, my mentoring relationships include regularly-scheduled, 1 hour meetings.
We discuss issues you are currently encountering or practice the techniques that make product management easier and more fun, while empowering you to be a Go-To expert within your organization.
Contact me to discuss how I can specifically help you.
Speaking
Your team doesn’t need a cheerleader. They are already motivated.
In this one hour presentation, your audience can understand the challenges faced by product managers and how a few powerful skills can improve your business and the lives of both your customers and your PMs.
Product Managers need to be right.
Your company depends on product teams making the right decisions.
Product managers and owners need to learn the specific techniques that help them select the right product features to be delivered in the right order, and to give stakeholders confidence that the decisions are correct.
This presentation is an optimistic look at the challenges faced by product managers and the techniques that change a product manger from an order taker to a strategic decision maker.