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Lean Product Management

By : Mangalam Nandakumar
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Lean Product Management

By: Mangalam Nandakumar

Overview of this book

Lean Product Management is about finding the smartest way to build an Impact Driven Product that can deliver value to customers and meet business outcomes when operating under internal and external constraints. Author, Mangalam Nandakumar, is a product management expert, with over 17 years of experience in the field. Businesses today are competing to innovate. Cost is no longer the constraint, execution is. It is essential for any business to harness whatever competitive advantage they can, and it is absolutely vital to deliver the best customer experience possible. The opportunities for creating impact are there, but product managers have to improvise on their strategy every day in order to capitalize on them. This is the Agile battleground, where you need to stay Lean and be able to respond to abstract feedback from an ever shifting market. This is where Lean Product Management will help you thrive. Lean Product Management is an essential guide for product managers, and to anyone embarking on a new product development. Mangalam Nandakumar will help you to align your product strategy with business outcomes and customer impact. She introduces the concept of investing in Key Business Outcomes as part of the product strategy in order to provide an objective metric about which product idea and strategy to pursue. You will learn how to create impactful end-to-end product experiences by engaging stakeholders and reacting to external feedback.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Lean Product Management
Contributors
Preface
Another Book You May Enjoy
Index

Summary


All the analysis involved in defining the Impact Driven Product experience and ensuring that all business functions are aligned toward meeting the same Key Business Outcomes, as well as a view of costs, comes together in the Cost Impact matrix. The Cost Impact matrix offers a visually compelling view of how a feature's value compares to the cost of building it. This can enable decision-making around which feature ideas to pursue for immediate benefits and which ones to invest in, for longer-term strategic benefit. It also helps in analyzing trade-offs and functional scope, and therefore in determining whether a feature idea can be trimmed down or whether it's worth investing in a feature idea even though the costs are higher. Once the cost-impact comparison is done, the feature ideas can make it to the product backlog.

Now, we have our backlog ready, so let's go and build our product in the next chapter!