Planning & Organization
This type of planning leads to more efficient and successful product development.
What is Product Planning?
These consist of delivering value, exploring markets and users, connecting with the customer, defining product strategy, vision and roadmaps, and managing and prioritizing the backlog.
What are responsibilities of a product manager?
Putting ____ at the center of the development process enables product managers to create products and services that resonate and are tailored to their customers' needs.
What is people?
This refers to the "A" of a RACI Matrix - stakeholders that are ultimately answerable for the correct and thorough completion of the deliverable or task.
Customer satisfaction is the highest priority of this methodology.
What is Agile Development?
Name one key element of project planning
What is: 1) Identify stakeholders; 2) Define roles & responsibilities; 3) Hold a kickoff meeting; 4) Define project scope, budget and timeline; 5) Set and prioritize goals; 6) Define deliverables; 7) Create project schedule; 8) Do a risk assessment; 9) Communicate project plan.
This product management task consists of making product justifications, conducting multi-year planning, and managing and controlling costs.
What is budget management?
"I'm a Vet, so I understand what all Vets need" is an example of this.
Daily Double!
What is the name of your Stakeholder Management Skills Coach?
Who is Dan Carroll?
This is a time-boxed event that occurs at the beginning of each Sprint where the Team and Product Owner plan the next Sprint based on the product backlog priorities.
What is Sprint Planning?
This type of planning leads to more efficient and successful product development.
What is Product Planning?
What is PI Planning?
This behavior or quality is a crucial ingredient to understanding the needs and wants of our customers, and an important element of the HCD process.
What is empathy?
This helpful tool helps define and document ownership and responsibility at each stage of your project.
What is a RACI Matrix?
This Agile methodology is often wrongly thought of as a counterpart of agile, focuses on simplifying complicated tasks as much as possible, and can take years of practice to master.
What is scrum?
According to Locke & Latham (2006), doing this is linked to higher motivation, self-esteem, self-confidence, and autonomy.
What is setting goals?
Success for a ______ is delivering a product that users love and use, while success for a _____ is delivering a defined scope of work on time and on budget.
What is 1) Product Manager and 2) Project Manager?
True or False - Celebrating the wins of your stakeholders is just as important an engagement strategy as is keeping them informed throughout the product development process.
What is True?
Identifying changes that can be implemented immediately or added as part of the next Sprint's plan is a key objective of this type of event.
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
This is a structured way to organize tasks and improve efficiency.
What are the 4Ds of Time Management?
This key customer and collaborator of the product manager focuses on the big picture and the product's role in the overall business ecosystem. But they may lack in-depth knowledge of specific product requirements or user needs.
Who is the Business Owner?
These are described as the three lenses of human-centered design, an effective method to evaluate the potential of ideas.
What are 1) Desirability (Does the solution serve the needs of Veterans?); 2) Feasibility (Can the solution be executed?); and 3) Viability (Will the solution have a significant, positive impact on VA?)
Too many ______ stakeholders in a RACI matrix could be a sign of too many "cooks in the kitchen".
What is "Responsible" stakeholders?
Daily Double!
This project management contrasts Agile Development. Whereas Agile is more iterative, this approach is more linear and rigid.
What is Waterfall?