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It’s Time for Your Product Management Report Card
It should be a key component of your annual product planning
October marks the start of the fourth quarter. In most software companies the process for developing their annual business plan comes to a head at this time. Past performance is assessed, research is conducted, and goals, strategies, and tactics for the new calendar year are developed. Product management should be an integral part of this process. It’s time for your product management report card.
What is a Product Management Report Card?
A product management report card is an assessment of how your organization performed in achieving its goals for the year. It provides a fact-based approach to understand what worked in the past year, what didn’t work, and what can be improved in the next year. It is an input to your overall product management retrospective.
There is no ‘standard’ product management report card. Each company has its own approach to product management. Tools for assessing product management performance in a startup will be different for those used to assess product management in a mature company that serves a late majority/laggard market. You need to tailor your product management report card to your market, position in the market, and your…
