e News and Resources from Pivotal Product Management                     June 2008

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Value-Based Requirements


The technology world is littered with high profile products that demonstrated great development feats but did not produce the market successes originally hyped. The problem many of these products faced was delivering enough benefits to customers to overcome the "costs" incurred. In other words, the products did not deliver enough VALUE.

The steps to determine if enough value can be delivered to the market need to happen as early as possible in the product development lifecycle to reduce the risk of market failurehttp://media.emm.adhost.com/adhost_5377.

Events User-Centered Product Requirements Workshop July 16-17 This highly interactive course provides a step-by-step process for creating user centered Market and Product Requirements Documents (MRDS, PRDs).

Product Management Intensive: Sept 24-25
Learn from award-winning, practicing PMs and immediately apply the seven best practices for greater product success now.

AIPMM Certification Review and Exam: Sept 26  Become a CPM and show your leadership in your company or the marketplace.

Tools
Value-Based Requirements White Paper (fill out Hot Button survey for a complimentary copy)

Book: The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design

A good User Experience newsletter

More thoughts on user persona development

Special OfferHow do you document requirements?

Take just 30 seconds to respond, and you'll receive a complimentary copy of our own Requirements template for your own use! We'll report the survey results in the next newsletter. 


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