4 Steps to Agile Development Success for Product Managers
As a Product Manager, you have to select and deliver the highest value features while providing customers full visibility into development status to drive customer loyalty. And, you need to have an efficient way to collect requests from multiple sources, ideally by leveraging customer information stored in your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. That’s why we’ve put together a toolkit to help you jumpstart your Agile adoption. Fill out the form below to get Rally’s free Agile Product Manager Toolkit.
Step 1: Learn the Basics
First, learn the basics with this set of resources, specifically designed for Product Managers, including:
“How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise” Webinar: As more development teams adopt Agile processes to increase their responsiveness to customer needs, Product Managers must change the way they work to keep up with faster development cycles and shorter customer feedback loops. Product Managers new to Agile soon realize that Agile processes require more involvement from their group. In this on-demand Web seminar, learn how to manage these new activities to best serve the Agile Enterprise.
“Agile Product Management Meets CRM” Webinar: Learn how Agile teams are integrating leading Agile lifecycle management solutions with the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution from Salesforce to prioritize features by the number of customer requests, expected revenue, degree of alignment with your product strategy and competitive advantage.
Step 2: Train Team and Pilot Tool
Train your team in record time by participating in the Agile Product Owner course with one of Rally’s in-house Agile coaches. Then, begin your pilot project on Rally Enterprise and Rally Product Manager.
Step 3: Prove ROI with Rally’s Productivity Calculator and “The Agile Impact Report”
Prove ROI of your Agile investment with a third-party study on the productivity of Agile teams and our Productivity Calculator. The study concluded that, as compared to industry averages, development teams using Agile practices were 37 percent faster to market, 16 percent more productive and able to maintain normal defect counts despite significant schedule compression.
The Productivity Analysis Calculator was designed to help companies and development teams analyze potential savings in time, money, and efficiency by using Agile and Rally solutions.
Step 4: Implementation
Replace your other tools with Rally’s Programmable Platform. By delivering a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture specifically for software lifecycle management, Rally provides software-driven organizations with a programmable platform that extends the Rally application, connects disparate role-based tools and shares Rally data and views with other applications and Web portals.
In addition, Rally provides free Agile education through our library of white papers, webinars and articles on adopting and scaling Agile. Or, for more formal training, Rally also offers public training courses and on-site coaching and consulting. Regardless of your level of Agile adoption, Rally has the resources to help you become an Agile expert.
- Learn more about Agile Product Management
- Learn more about Agile program management or Rally’s integration connectors
- Learn more about free resources or professional Agile training
Additional Resources:
Agile University
Agile Commons
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Customer Testimonial:
Right when we started using Rally, our project management time went down to nearly zero. Rally lets us focus on the backlog and getting it prioritized."
Chris Spagnuolo, Senior Project Manager, DTS
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