Product Management Services

Agile product management integrates the disciplines of business product management, knowledge of how to implement business objectives as solution features, knowledge of the technical aspects of software development, and IT project management.

Product management often applies to the development of Commercial Off the Shelf Software (COTS).

Charles Goolsby has extensive experience in the product management of commercial COTS software solutions as well as custom-built solutions, and especially in regard to enterprise Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) modular software products. Charles' background also includes commercial product managent.

Services:

Perform Product Management Planning

• Organize the product management activity
• Manage product owners and product analysts
• Create and Manage portfolio-level product roadmaps
• Engage in portfolio-level forecasting and release planning

Perform Product-specific Planning

• Plan and coordinate activities with product owners/analysts
• Perform sprint planning, work inspection and retrospectives
• Defining product business use cases, epics, and user stories
• Oversee the definition of product-specific roadmaps
• Coordinate product vision and strategy with Leadership
• Perform product-level forecasting and release planning

Manage Communication

• Manage product development with transparency
• Communicate project status to all stakeholders

Facilitate Product Ideation

• Facilitate Leadership-level product ideation
• Facilitate Leadership-level product requirements sessions
• Define Business case for the product's value proposition

Product Research

• Perform Market Research (evaluate the viability of the idea)
• Execute detailed analyses of competitor products

Define Requirements for the Proposed Product

• Elaborate on Leadership's Vision with detailed requirements
• Create, update and communicate sprint backlog
• Facilitate joint application requirements/design sessions
• Define product requirements (agile epics/user stories, or and/or traditional business, functional and technical requirements)

Perform Technical Evaluations of Product Idea

• Coordinate analysis by solution architects

Manage Prototype Development

• Coordinate work with development and testing teams
• Demo prototype products to Leadership and customers
• Manage requirements change

Production Product Management

• Manage production maintenance and operations
• Coordinate requirements change management