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PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
The Product Success Trinity
As a Product or Project Manager, focusing on three basic things maximise your chances of success: culture, routine and teamwork
Whilst writing a story on how to health check a project, which equally applies to a product, I reflected on what, if anything, are the most critical things to get right. Yes, plans are critical, so is managing risk, so is managing budget and myriad other things. But what’s the most critical?
I’ve been reflecting a lot on that as a programme I’ve been running is coming up to another large implementation — our fifth this year. We have about 50 people directly on my team, with about another 40 people who don’t work for me spending most or all of their time on the programme too. If I can distil what makes the team work, then it’s something to take to my next programme.
Having written the heath check, three things stand out for me:
- Culture
- Routine
- Teamwork
On one level this is obvious, but what’s less obvious is how these three things come together to resolve many issues that would otherwise derail your project, programme or product. Let’s explore this a bit.
