This course has been designed by Lee Lambert of the Lambert Consulting Group and Greg Geracie of Actuation Consulting.  When project managers assume a leadership role in product development activities, they often experience culture shock. Product development projects typically last longer and are riskier to the business, highly visible, and involve potentially unfamiliar roles — including the critical role of product manager. To drive value in the organization, product and project managers need to work together closely. But the lack of clarity on each other’s roles often puts product and project managers on a collision course — leading to a failed project and a compromised product. This course teaches project managers what to expect from product management and vice versa, how to discover blind spots and risks within the product development process, and how to change the critical product management relationship from a collision course to a powerful partnership.

For more information, contact Hector Del Castillo at hmdelcastillo@aipmm.com.
Objectives

• Clearly illustrate how the project lifecycle integrates with and compliments the overall product management lifecycle. This will help you:
• Increase your value by making you a more strategic project manager and give you a deeper understanding of the core business needs
• Become aware of risks and “blind spots” that can negatively impact your project and the success of the product
• Understand the factors that improve your odds for project and product success
• Demonstrate how aligning product and project management leads to more effective teamwork and increased efficiency. This will help you:
• Understand that the product management and project lifecycles are deeply intertwined
• Define your company’s production process and ensure that the major product and project deliverables are in place
• Deploy shared incentives, performance objectives, an success criteria
• Increase your ability to control project and product results by:
• Expanding your product “domain” knowledge
• Improving your core team’s performance and collaboration
• Ensuring robust and thoughtful planning, risk mitigation, and communication

Audience
This course is designed for experienced project managers, program managers, technology managers, business analysts, and other experienced cross-functional managers who want to expand their ability to create value through collaboration in the product development process and drive improved outcomes.