Product Portfolio Management 

You have a complex product that consists of co-dependent systems that are hard to coordinate? Your team is working on too many projects at the same time? You had a hard time launching a new product in a large organisation? Or you are a PM and you do not understand the jargon that executives use? Do you recognise those challenges?

We were there before, that is why want to invite you to the Product Portfolio Management course. Perfect for Heads of Products who aim at the optimal use of resources and strategic alignment but also for Product Managers who want to take the next step in their career. This course is based on the PDMA standards and the trainers’ experience as a Head of Product Management and founders of audio companies (hardware and software products). Therefore, it is a perfect fit for hardware/electronics, consumer audio, music tech and software product people. 

26-27 September 2024

 

Thursday and Friday 16:00 -20:00 CEST (10:00 – 14:00 EST)

Online, via Teams

Cost: 250 EUR (+ VAT if applicable)

Benefits

 You will learn how to build and balance a product portfolio and  use portoflio management as a tool to achieve strategic objectives

You will learn techniques that applied will improve the financial results (revenue and profit) of products 

You will learn how to improve satisfaction of your teams and reduce employee turnover 

You will obtain a badge of Certified Product Portfolio Manager 

Who will benefit the most

Product and R&D Directors

The course will equip you with tools and methods that will help you to realise the strategy and  coordinate work of your product teams 

Product Managers and Product Owners

The training can help experienced product managers to take next step in their product career and become a product director

Executive, entrepreneurs and startup owners

This training will provide you with practical methods and tools that can improve your strategic decision making

About the trainers:

Wojciech Ozimek

Wojciech Ozimek

Head of Product Management, my3Daudio Ventures

Product Leader with passion for music-tech. Currently, Head of Products at My3Daudio Ventures, previously Head of Product Management at XPLUS where he was responsible for a multi-milion software product portfolio.. He has almost 12 years of experience in designing and building products and was the founder and first chapter president in the Product Development and Management Association in Central Europe. Musician and immersive producer in spare time.

Tomasz Żernicki

Tomasz Żernicki

Co-founder, Zylia and My3Daudio

Serial entrepreneur and an audio engineer passionate about building and scaling audio companies. Co-founder and the first CEO of Zylia, a company that provides tools for 3D audio recording and music production.  The company’s flagship product, The ZYLIA ZM-1, created under his leadership, has been recognized by the industry worldwide and won awards, e.g., Best in Show Summer NAMM. He is also internationally recognized MPEG expert, holds PhD in Audio Signal Processing.

Pricing & info:

Ticket price: €250

*You can resign with full refund until 14 days before the event. We leave right to change the date of the event when the group is not formed

Agenda 

Introduction 

You will learn what is the role of Portfolio management in the product organisation,  the impact of strategy on Product Portfolio, the portfolio processes (selection of new and analysis of existing products)

 

 

Typology – types of product portfolio projects 

You will learn what are Breakthrough, derivative, platform and support projects, and ways to group NPD projects (e.g., level of novelty for the company, for the market, etc.)

Project selection 

You will learn and practice quantitative and qualitative (ROI, NPV, IRR, payback period) criteria of selecting new products and the selection tools (pass/fail, scoring)

Projects analysis (balancing the portfolio) 

You will learn and practice to how balance a company portfolio and what are the best portfolio analysis tools (types of bubble charts, risk matrix etc)

Case study

Real life example of building a portfolio management process in the company and what challenges where met along the way

About the trainers:

Wojciech Ozimek

Wojciech Ozimek

Head of Product Mgmt, my3Daudio Ventures

Product Leader with passion for music-tech. Currently, Head of Products at My3Daudio Ventures, previously Head of Product Management at XPLUS where he was responsible for a multi-milion software product portfolio. He has almost 12 years of experience in designing and building products and was the founder and first chapter president in the Product Development and Management Association in Central Europe. Musician and immersive producer in spare time.

Tomasz Żernicki

Tomasz Żernicki

Co-founder, Zylia and My3Daudio

Serial entrepreneur and an audio engineer passionate about building and scaling audio companies. Co-founder and the first CEO of Zylia, a company that provides tools for 3D audio recording and music production.  The company’s flagship product, The ZYLIA ZM-1, created under his leadership, has been recognized by the industry worldwide and won awards, e.g., Best in Show Summer NAMM. He is also internationally recognized MPEG expert, holds PhD in Audio Signal Processing.

Pricing & info:

Ticket price: €250 (+VAT)

*You can resign with full refund until 14 days before the event. We leave right to change the date of the event when the group is not formed

*10% discount for PDMA members

 

  • Introduction to Product Portfolio Management

You will learn what is the role of Portfolio management in the product organisation,  the impact of strategy on Product Portfolio, the portfolio processes (selection of new and analysis of existing products)

  • Typology – types of portfolio projects

You will learn what breakthrough, derivative, platform and support projects are and other ways to group projects (e.g. the level of novelty)

  • Building a portfolio

You will learn what are the financial and non-financial criteria for selecting NPD projects and selection methods (pass/fail and scoring matrix)

  • Balancing a portfolio

You will learn to how balance a company portfolio and what are the best portfolio analysis tools (bubble charts, variance and trend analysis)

  • Case study

Real life example of building a portfolio management process in the company

Voices of our customers

Several dozen companies from various markets. From Fortune 500 to local innovators.

A dose of broad yet deep knowledge from Wojtek is the greatest asset of the Product Portfolio Management training. The people who came to it were an added plus and a guarantee of a good discussion. Highly recommended! 

Helena Milevych - Head of Products at KP Labs

Our cooperation with Rokanan  helped us to increase efficiency of our Products Introduction. We highly recommend Rokanan to any organisation striving to improve its NPD process.

Tomasz Świętosławski - Board member at ICB Pharma

Register for the session

Early Bird

 

€200

Valid until:

12.07.2024

Normal

 

€250

Valid until:

13.09.2024

Last Minute

 

€270

Valid until:

20.09.2024

* We offer group discounts,

*Your registration will be confirmed upon payment, there are 15 spots in the class, don’t wait!

* We reserve right to change the date when the group is not formed