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Product-centric organizations gather here to connect, share knowledge, and learn about Responsive Product Portfolio Management (PPM), a framework that connects objectives, products, and resources with execution.

With 80% of product teams struggling with competing priorities and 97% of companies failing to scale due to misalignment, it’s clear that it is time for a new approach. That’s why today’s most successful companies focus on outcomes across the entire product portfolio. Using Responsive PPM, Chief Product Officers, Product Ops Teams, Product Managers, and other portfolio leaders collaborate and adjust in real-time to deliver customer delight and business outcomes. You’ve come to the right place if you’re ready to level up and do the same.

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Five Principles of Responsive
Product Portfolio Management

Whether you have one product or a hundred, the organizations driving the most significant
outcomes take a portfolio approach. Here are five ways Responsive PPM is changing the game.

Create a
Multi-Dimensional Portfolio

You need to quickly understand various aspects of your portfolio—zooming in and out of each area while understanding how everything connects.

  • Customer dimension: Reflects the type of customers the product serves (New, Existing, Enterprise, SMB).
  • Objective dimension: Reflects the variety of goals the product desires to achieve (grow new customers, retain existing customers).
  • Engineering dimension: Represents the solution options or resource requirements.

Operate Across
Three Horizons

The key here is not having an annual, quarterly, or weekly event but rather a rolling time horizon for long-term, mid-term, and near-term goals.
  • The details of the next level become fuzzier further into the future.
  • Operating rhythms like annual planning, quarterly planning, and sprint planning guide the focus across each team.
  • Responsive PPM connects the rolling time horizons across all levels of the organization to enable strategic alignment and operational autonomy.

Use the Double Diamond
Approach of Strategy
and Execution

The Responsive Product Portfolio Management process has two interconnected phases that correspond to the discovery and delivery cycles of building outcome-driven products: strategy and execution.

  • Each cycle focuses on a different time horizon at the same operating level, such as an executive annual strategy horizon with a quarterly execution focus.
  • The strategic cycle aligns goals, defines strategies, evaluates opportunities, and assesses resource allocation.
  • The outputs of the strategic cycle provide the guidepost for the execution cycle to iteratively deliver, measure, and adjust.

Leverage MoAR
Prioritization

The MoAR model (Metrics over Available Resources) allows
teams to connect benefits (return) directly to the goals
associated with the product initiative while comparing
efforts that require the same resources.

  • Outcome-driven product leaders require more robust metrics than simple ROI to evaluate product opportunities.
  • With MoAR, teams prioritize and allocate product investments with the most significant impact that will move the needle.
  • MoAR arms product leaders with the data they need to address resource restraints, understand the likelihood of achieving the desired goal and plan based on outcomes versus features.

Responsive
Re/Allocation

A traditional project portfolio allocates budget to projects. A responsive product portfolio gives multidimensionality, such as towards objectives and customer segments, providing autonomy in the execution cycle. Once the desired outcome has been achieved, adjustments occur toward the most impactful portfolio area.

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The Responsive PPM Certification Program gives you everything you need to become an outcome-focused portfolio pro. Learn the fundamental principles, understand end-to-end pillars, discuss best practices, and more. Join the growing community and receive your official Responsive PMM certificate today.