Product management carries significant responsibility, but often lacks authority. Building strong relationships, gathering insights, and aligning stakeholders’ motivations are key to product success. Effective team communication, prioritisation, and facilitation are essential in guiding decisions and actions, ensuring alignment, and making effective evidence-based decisions.
Our 1 day Product Communication & Alignment course helps you to define and apply strategy beyond your activities in order to maximise impact!
For a private (on-site or live-virtual) course for your team, contact us now!
Audience
Working product managers who want to bring more effective strategic thinking to their product process.
Course Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course, other than a willingness to learn about User Stories. No technical knowledge or experience is required.
Course Syllabus
Strategic Impact
- Understanding your role as a product manager within your organisation
- The significance of ‘process’ in product management
- The power of influence in driving success
Stakeholder Management
- Building strong, valuable relationships that enhance your product’s success
- Identifying, mapping, and understanding your stakeholders
- Gathering valuable insights from stakeholders
Team Communication
- Developing an effective communication strategy
- Structuring reports tailored to your audience
- Recognizing and mitigating bias in your reporting
Alignment
- Emphasizing the importance of alignment when exploring new opportunities
- Creating a structured and defensible framework for evaluating opportunities with your team
- Identifying key information required for thorough evaluation
Prioritization
- Exploring different prioritization methods and frameworks
- Emphasizing prioritization as a collaborative process
- Centering evidence-based decision-making in prioritization discussions
Facilitation
- Techniques for driving conversations toward decisions and actionable outcomes
- Identifying good practices in facilitation
- Designing effective workshops and collaborative sessions
Assessment and Certification
There is no assessment or certification with this course.
Course Outcomes
- Develop a solid grasp of how to incorporate strategic thinking into your tactical work
- Explore a range of frameworks and tools to learn how to choose the right one for each situation
- Discover how to involve your team and stakeholders in the product process, enabling them to co-create and support the vision and strategy
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Upcoming Courses
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