The Best-Selling Product Planning eBooks of All Time

A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy. This practical guide teaches you how to create an effective product roadmap, and demonstrates how to use the roadmap to align stakeholders and prioritize ideas and requests. With it, you’ll learn to communicate how your products will make your customers and organization successful.

Whether you're a product manager, product owner, business analyst, program manager, project manager, scrum master, lead developer, designer, development manager, entrepreneur, or business owner, this book will show you how to: Articulate an inspiring vision and goals for your product Prioritize ruthlessly and scientifically Protect against pursuing seemingly good ideas without evaluation and prioritization Ensure alignment with stakeholders Inspire loyalty and over­-delivery from your team Get your sales team working with you instead of against you Bring a user­ and buyer-­centric approach to planning and decision-making Anticipate opportunities and stay ahead of the game Publish a comprehensive roadmap without over­committing.

Concise yet comprehensive, Product Planning Essentials, Second Edition, addresses the complex, interdisciplinary nature of product development and product management. It covers strategic issues that emerge during the product life cycle, including identifying opportunities, idea generation and evaluation, technical development, commercialization, and eventual product dismissal. Instructors, students, and practitioners will appreciate the balanced managerial and how-to orientation. Changes to the Second Edition. • Addition of two chapters on design and legal considerations.

• Expanded discussion of global considerations to introduce sustainable product development and Base of the Pyramid (BoP) product development. • Simplified technical discussions of planning techniques for improved comprehension. • Inclusion of product planning best practices from recent noteworthy cases and studies in the final chapter.

Business success hinges on successfully creating products with the right features. You must correctly analyze the needs of the customer and match these needs with your resources to not only produce a product and but also deliver it in a timely manner. An in-depth understanding of systematic release planning can put you on this path. Authored by renowned expert Günther Ruhe, Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications presents methods and tools to apply sound planning to product development and product management.

The book covers the different aspects of supporting product release decisions ranging from foundations to methods, tools, and applications. Equal parts art and science, the actual decision-making is described as a process of combining rigorous methods with the intuition and experience of human experts. Ruhe provides a guided tour through the methodology and use of release planning, starting with technology and market needs and proceeding to product planning and finally to development projects. He studies three fundamental classes of problems: prioritization of features, product release planning on a strategic level (roadmapping), and release planning on an operational level (staffing). Presenting and discussing tool support for all the methods covered, the author supplies case studies that underpin the methodologies with practical examples. He also supplies trial accounts (read only) for the two most important decision tools for prioritization and product release planning. The author freely admits that the techniques presented are not supposed to be the ultimate truth, but a direction to go to support human decision-making, to better understand the rational of the decisions made, and to grow in the capability of mastering the whole planning process. About the Author: Günther Ruhe holds an Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at University of Calgary. His main results and publications are in software engineering decision support, product release planning, project management, as well as measurement, simulation, optimization and empirical research for software-based systems. From 1996 until 2001 he was deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has comprehensive experience in industry collaboration projects and is the Founder and CEO of Expert Decisions Inc. Dr. Ruhe is a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society and the German Computer Society GI.

PLANNING AND CONTROL - FUNCTIONS OF PRODUCTION CONTROL - JOB - BATCH AND CONTINUOUS - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN - MARKETING - FUNCTIONAL - OPERATIONAL - DURABILITY AND DEPENDABILITY ASPECT - STANDARDIZATION - BREAK EVEN ANALYSIS METHOD STUDY - IMPLEMENTATION - MICRO MOTION AND MEMO MOTION STUDY - WORK MEASUREMENT - TIME STUDY - WORK SAMPLING - PRODUCT PLANNING - VALUE ANALYSIS - ROUTING - QUANTITY - BATCH PRODUCTION - MACHINE CAPACITY - BALANCING - LOADING AND SCHEDULING - GANTT CHARTS - PERPETUAL LOADING - DISPATCHING - PROGRESS REPORTING - INVENTORY CONTROL - PURPOSE OF HOLDING STOCK - EFFECT OF DEMAND ON INVENTORIES - TWO BIN SYSTEM - ORDERING CYCLE SYSTEM - ABC ANALYSIS - RECORDER PROCEDURE - ELEMENTS OF JUST IN TIME SYSTEMS - FUNDAMENTALS OF MRP II AND ERP.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of recent developments in production planning. The monograph begins with an introductory chapter reviewing the need for these production planning models, that operate by determining time-phased releases of work into the facility or supply chain, relating these to the Manufacturing Planning and Control (MPC) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) frameworks, that form the basis of most academic research and industrial practice.

The extensive body of work on Workload Control is also placed in this context, and proves the need for improved models with a discussion of the difficulties, these approaches encounter. The next two chapters present a detailed review of the state of the art in optimization models based on exogenous planned lead times, and examines the cases where these can take both integer and fractional values. The difficulties arising in estimating planned lead times are consistent with factory behavior which are highlighted, noting that many of these lead to non-convex optimization models. Attempts to address these difficulties by iterative multimodel approaches, that combine simulation and mathematical programming, are also discussed in detail. The next three chapters of the volume address the set of techniques developed using clearing functions, which represent the expected output of a resource in a planning period, as a function of the expected workload of the resource, during that period. The chapters on this subject propose a basic optimization model for multiple products, discuss the difficulties of this model and some possible solutions. It also reviews prior work, and discuss a number of alternative formulations of the clearing function concept with their respective advantages and disadvantages. Applications to lot sizing decisions and a number of other specific problems are also described. This volume concludes with an assessment of the state of the art described in the volume, and several directions for future work.

Considering or currently creating a new product?Whether its software or any other type of product, this book is for you!Learn what is really involved with creating a new product – debunking some of the myths, the initial planning, challenges while creating new products and making it available.The author shares his own experiences with creating new software products, beyond just writing code – from coming up with the initial idea to getting the new product released and out there.

This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology. It explains in detail the five phases, and it relates its significance to national, international, and customer specific standards. It also includes additional information on the PPAP (Production Part Approval Process), Risk, Warranty, GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing), and the role of leadership as they apply to the continual improvement process of any organization. Features.

Defines and explains the five stages of APQP in detail Identifies and zeroes in on the critical steps of the APQP methodology Covers the issue of risk as it is defined in the ISO 9001, IATF 16949, the pending VDA, and the OEM requirements Presents the role of leadership and management in the APQP methodology Summarizes all of the change requirements of the IATF standard.

Are you a strategic thinker? Or do you find it hard to rise above the fray of day-to-day thinking? Product Strategy & Roadmaps can help you move from operational to strategic thinking. It starts with foundational definitions. Next, it provides succinct and structured guidance on writing vision statements. It puts context into evaluating growth arenas. Then it shows how to integrate these thought processes into crafting product strategy and roadmaps. The book addresses questions such as:What does product strategy include?Is there a difference between a product vision and a product concept?

Under what circumstances should you be first to market?What are the three growth arenas and how much effort should you allocate to each?How should you approach creating a product family roadmap?What are the pros and cons of product platforms?Will better customer research improve your hindsight, insight and foresight?Product Strategy & Roadmaps provides a disciplined, yet flexible way for product managers to plan for the future.

ʻThe Product Launch Checklistʼ is the culmination of years of hands-on work with product launches in high-tech, software, and a consumer brand launch. Dominic J. Frúges is a Strategist, Innovator, Executive for Entrepreneurs, Small & Mid-Size, and Enterprise businesses. A thought leader who uses strategic, market, and situational analysis to assess strengths or areas for improvement. Expert at developing value propositions, strategic messaging, features & benefits that position products.

If you're looking to increase your knowledge of one of the core modules of SAP S/4HANA, this is the book for you. Settle in and let a long-time SAP professional guide you through the SAP Production Planning and Execution module. Author Himanshu Goel begins by explaining the nuts and bolts of production planning in SAP S/4HANA, before delving into various manufacturing methodologies such as discrete manufacturing, repetitive manufacturing, and process industry. He'll then walk you through setting up master data such as the material master, bill of material, work center, routing, and production version.

You'll then learn, step-by-step, how SAP PP processes are established from production order-based manufacturing to process order-based manufacturing. This book explains the complex concepts of production planning and execution in a straightforward manner and makes for an invaluable guide for SAP PP users from production plannersto shop floor managers and even junior/mid-level SAP PP consultants. After reading this book, you'll fully understand the concepts of SAP PP, and have insight into the latest developments in S/4HANA. What You Will LearnUnderstand master data in SAP PPStudy production planning; i.e., SOP and demand managementExplore discrete and repetitive manufacturingAcquire knowledge on Process Industry. Who Is This Book ForProduction planners, shop floor managers, and junior or mid-level SAP PP consultants who are looking to understand the concepts of SAP PP in SAP S/4HANA.