Topic outline

  • Week 4: Product development

    Topics & Speakers

    The week 4 moves the focus of the discussion to the last remaining interface of product management, engineering (also often referred to as development). The week proceeds from the basics of organising development in a single-product setting, to prioritising development in more complex settings:
    1. Organizing Product Development by Otto Hilska (Founder & CEO, Swarmia)
    2. Prioritizing Development by Tiina Nieminen (Head of Product Management, Services and Solutions R&D, KONE) 

    Readings

    Similarly to week 2, the two books - Perri's and Cagan's - are shorter on content that has to do with engineering. As we have seen by now, the roles that PMs take, greatly vary according to the context, and the books focus on a quite business (and team leadership) oriented approach to PM role.

    The little that is covered can be found from 

    • Cagan (Inspired): Ch 28-32, 
    • Also, Cagan's Empowered addresses these aspect in part 5.


    A widely recommended book on development (not the easiest  read, though):

    • Reinertsen, D. "The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development", 2009, Celeritas Publishing

    Reading suggestions from the lectures

    (will be updated to include reading tips from the lectures)

    Assignment
    In the fourth assignment, you will continue with the feature you proposed in assignment 2, and define the first slice(s) that development should address. 

    • Tuesday: Organizing Product Development
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      Otto Hilska: Organizing Product Development File PDF
    • Friday: Prioritizing Development
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      Tiina Nieminen: Prioritizing development File PDF
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