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Lean Product Portfolio Management

Lean Product Portfolios: Beyond Value Stream Mapping

The approach to creating a product portfolio delivering exponential value must transcend the obvious by incorporating a deep understanding of customer behavior, shaping the trajectory of the business and understanding emerging trends in technology, marketplace and the competitive landscape in local and global context.

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What You Will Learn

Learn and manage foundational elements of scaling products
Build and manage a portfolio of related and unrelated products
Identify new product opportunities with adjacency to existing product portfolio

About This Course

Lean Product Portfolios: Beyond Value Stream Mapping is about building and managing products collectively as a portfolio to maximize value creation. It explores these key concepts:

● Customer centricity and Value Stream Mapping across related products

● Product Design using Lean Principles for Product Lines and Product Suites

● Building Scalable Enterprise Architecture

● The use of User Research & Human-Centered Design

● Day-to-day Product Management: Individual Product Plans & Integrated Portfolio Roadmap

● Actionable strategies for Product Lifecycle Management, including -

o New Product Strategy

o Market Acquisition, Expansion, Realignment

o Product-Market Fit, Go-to-market, & post-launch expansion

o Product and feature retirement (overlaps, non-opportunities, lifecycle decision)

● Creating and managing a complex Product Portfolio using Lean principles

Potential case studies for this course could include the challenges of evolving legacy product lines, such as Modernization Acceleration in Insurance and Banking industry, SSN management at Social Security Administration, health records at CMS; as well as new scaled product offerings at major tech companies like PayPal.

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At A Glance

Expert Instruction Build Skills
Self-Paced Progress at your own speed
4 Weeks 2-3 hours per week
Free or $249.00 For the full program experience Discounted to $224.10 when you purchase the full Lean Product Portfolio Management Professional Certificate Program.
10 Professional Development Units (PDUs) Earn PDUs toward your Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Mangement Professional (PMP) certification

Your Instructor

Tushar Rathod

I love addressing highly complex challenges currently facing the leadership ranks in corporates, academia, government and non-profits. I help large organizations scale product mindset through IT modernization, product-centric approach, composable architecture & enterprise agility.

Syllabus

Week 1

Value Creation Framework

Create a shared understanding of what value is, identify value creation opportunities in the market place and shape solutions

Week 2

Enterprise Architecture

Understand and align the needs of the customer (Customer Journeys) to business operations (processes and capabilities) to the IT systems (applications and services) that power them

Week 3

Product Operations

Understand User Experience Research & Design
Design and build foundational elements of product management discipline that product teams can adopt

Week 4

Product Lifecycle Management

Build a deeper understanding of what it takes to successfully navigate a product from 0-1, to a full-featured product, to product retirement

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