Skills Brief
Project and Product Strategy
Keep your org on track with efficient project management strategies.
Expect the best, but plan for the worst.
Organizations use project and product strategies to deliver consistent results, reduce inefficiencies and cost, and improve customer and stakeholder satisfaction. A good project management methodology provides the framework, processes, guidelines, and techniques to manage the project's resources and output, and deliver increased value to the organization.
Success in a competitive marketplace requires the discipline to focus on customer needs, build a great team, control risks, and deliver results- learn the skills you need to maximize your organization's resources and deliver innovative products to the market.
Skills Detail: Project and Product Strategy
Exceed your customer’s expectations by aligning your team with a common framework and repeatable processes that enable success at all levels of the organization.
- Quality Assurance
- DevOps
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Product Management
- Quality Management
- Testing Automation
- End to End Testing
- Development Practices
- DevOps Discipline
- DevOps Tooling
- Configuration Management
- Release Management
- Dev-Sec-Ops
- Lean
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- Tooling
- Change Management
- Issue Tracking
- Communication
- Documentation
- Canvas
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Requirements Analysis
- Constraints
- Scope
- Estimation and Planning
- User Stories
- Risk Assessment
- Product Management
- Success Metrics
- Testing Methodologies
- Development Practices
- Dysfunction
- Automation
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Monitoring
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Deployment
- Orchestration
- Configuration Management
- Release Management
- Dev-Sec-Ops
- Business Process Re-Engineering
- Scrum Master
- Agile Transformation
- Flow
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Scope Management
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Product Leadership
- Quality Management
- Strategic DevOps
- Performance Based Scaling
- Agile Governance/ Techniques
- Value Driven Delivery
- Project Performance
- Communication Management
- Program Management
- Product Leadership
Featured Project and Product Strategy Authors
Casey Ayers is an independent project manager and strategic consultant, with experience leading projects in many fields, including healthcare, digital media, mobile app development, consumer product design, education, and event management.
Casey has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and earned an MBA from the Crummer School of Business at Rollins College in beautiful Winter Park, Florida in 2010. Prior to that, he received a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree majoring in Economics and Investment Finance from the University of North Florida.
Jeremy Jarrell is an agile coach and author who helps teams get better at doing what they love. He is heavily involved in the technology community, both as a highly rated speaker throughout the United States and as a syndicated author whose articles and videos have appeared on sites such as InfoQ.com, StickyMinds.com, Simple-Talk.com, and ScrumAlliance.org. Jeremy resides in Pittsburgh with his wife and two children and is an avid runner.
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Skills Detail: DevOps Project Manager
DevOps is an IT management philosophy that seeks to seeks to reduce time to delivery, enabling IT teams to rapidly evolve their software in short bursts, and quickly deploy those into production. To successfully implement DevOps tactics, organizations often need to make cultural changes and adopt specialized tools that facilitate a product-centric approach.
- Quality Assurance
- DevOps
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Product Management
- Quality Management
- Testing Automation
- End to End Testing
- Development Practices
- DevOps Discipline
- DevOps Tooling
- Configuration Management
- Release Management
- Dev-Sec-Ops
- Lean
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- Tooling
- Change Management
- Issue Tracking
- Communication
- Documentation
- Canvas
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Requirements Analysis
- Constraints
- Scope
- Estimation and Planning
- User Stories
- Risk Assessment
- Product Management
- Success Metrics
- Testing Methodologies
- Development Practices
- Dysfunction
- Automation
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Monitoring
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Deployment
- Orchestration
- Configuration Management
- Release Management
- Dev-Sec-Ops
- Business Process Re-Engineering
- Scrum Master
- Agile Transformation
- Flow
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Scope Management
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Product Leadership
- Quality Management
- Strategic DevOps
- Performance Based Scaling
- Agile Governance/ Techniques
- Value Driven Delivery
- Project Performance
- Communication Management
- Program Management
- Product Leadership
Featured DevOps Project Manager Authors
Richard Seroter is a Senior Director of Product for Pivotal, a 10-time Microsoft MVP for cloud/integration, an instructor for developer-centric training company Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies. As a Senior Director of Product at Pivotal, Richard works with customers and partners to realize the full value of the Pivotal platform and transform the way they build software.
Jason Helmick is an author for Pluralsight. His IT career spans more than 25 years or enterprise consulting on a variety of technologies, with a focus on strategic IT business planning. He’s a highly successful IT author, columnist, lecturer, and instructor, specializing in automation practices for the IT pro. Jason is a leader in the IT professional community, and serves as board member and COO/CFO of PowerShell.Org. Jason’s publications include Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches, and he has contributed to numerous industry publications and periodicals, including PowerShell Deep Dives and Microsoft TechNet Magazine. He is a sought-after speaker at numerous technical conferences and symposia, and has been a featured presenter in the Microsoft Virtual Academy.
Skills Detail: Developer Team Lead
A developer team lead is responsible for not just designing and writing code, but for the coordination of an entire development team. Team Leads often transition into the position from developer, quality assurance tester, or other hands-on technical roles. Prepare to lead a team of developers by adding new project management, collaboration, and leadership abilities to your existing technical skills.
- Quality Assurance
- DevOps
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Product Management
- Quality Management
- Testing Automation
- End to End Testing
- Development Practices
- DevOps Discipline
- DevOps Tooling
- Configuration Management
- Release Management
- Dev-Sec-Ops
- Lean
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- Tooling
- Change Management
- Issue Tracking
- Communication
- Documentation
- Canvas
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Requirements Analysis
- Constraints
- Scope
- Estimation and Planning
- User Stories
- Risk Assessment
- Product Management
- Success Metrics
- Testing Methodologies
- Development Practices
- Dysfunction
- Automation
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Monitoring
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Deployment
- Orchestration
- Configuration Management
- Release Management
- Dev-Sec-Ops
- Business Process Re-Engineering
- Scrum Master
- Agile Transformation
- Flow
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Scope Management
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Product Leadership
- Quality Management
- Strategic DevOps
- Performance Based Scaling
- Agile Governance/ Techniques
- Value Driven Delivery
- Project Performance
- Communication Management
- Program Management
- Product Leadership
Featured Developer Team Lead Authors
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Tommy van Schaik found out early on that his natural habitat was between business and IT. After graduating with his Bachelor in the area of Business & IT and later his Master in Business Process Management & IT, he has worked most his career for the Dutch Department of Defense. There he focused on project management, IT governance, business processes, IT architecture, requirement engineering, and business rules. After a beautiful expat adventure in the United States, Tommy has now moved back to the Netherlands where he is employed as a project manager for the Dutch government.
Michael is General Manager at Fairway Technologies, a San Diego based technology consulting company. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Development at PDSA, Inc. and has many years of management, technology, and leadership experience. Prior to PDSA, Michael was the Director of Information Technology at the Long Beach division of Boeing. He also has been an instructor at UCLA and University of California, Irvine's extension program for 15 years. Michael has been a speaker at DevConnections, DevIntersections, SoCal Code Camp, and other venues specializing in IT best practices of management, project management, and leadership. Michael holds a BA in Mathematics and a MS in Computer Science from UCLA.
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Skills Detail Category Definitions
Foundation- Requisite knowledge that is essential to developing related skills.
Application- Skills needed to create, build, and execute on the most common or useful scenarios for a particular topic.
Composition- Specialized knowledge needed to combine independent skills, enhance them and create something greater than the sum of its parts.
Strategic- Often acquired through years of experience, these skills allow you to make effective, business critical decisions.
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