Successful product managers stay on top of their past and present to-dos in order to best inform their decisions about future work. Tracking every task and source of an idea is especially crucial to feature development.
In Acclaim Products, you have a dedicated space to capture and organize your product feature descriptions, requirements, personas, strategy canvas, and discussions, to ensure no valuable detail gets lost or forgotten at any point of the process.
Envision a holistic picture of product features
Effective product managers need a holistic picture of existing and new features, issues, dependencies, and release priorities to determine exactly how they should be rolled out. Product people often keep lists of what needs to be done every day, but they might be scattered across notebooks, sticky notes, and online tools like OneNote.
- How do you sell this feature to the market?
- How do you introduce it to the market?
- What is the short and long-term cost/benefit
- What are the benefits to the user personas?
- Are you effectively communicating its value?
- What problems does it solve?
- What teams need this information?
- Is the buyer the same as the user?
These are just a few of the many questions you might ask as a product manager while working toward choosing, developing, and managing product features.
However, getting a clear picture of how much work is involved requires linking these lists to the product being built and understanding that development is only one part of the process. Most product people aim to avoid cluttering up the software tools their development teams use daily, like Jira or Rally, with these details.
Acclaim Products is designed to support feature development with:
- A workspace to pull it all together, what is being built, who it will benefit, what value it will give them, and how long it will take to build, to ensure successful outcomes - A centralized hub for storing and managing feature sets, descriptions, requirements, discussions, and ideas
- Tools to align different teams, not just developers, on the goals and requirements for each feature
- A workspace that streamlines collaboration across teams
- Tools to visualize and enhance release planning and work prioritization
- A comprehensive project history and project archive
You’ll eliminate the need for fragmented communication channels, opting for real-time discussions, feedback sharing, and strategy development within the Acclaim product workspace. Acclaim Products fosters seamless collaboration and promotes shared understanding, enabling you to improve productivity by reducing delays, inconveniences, and misunderstandings.
Streamline workflows and prioritize work
As a product manager, you’ll frequently encounter the challenge of having more work to get done than you can accomplish – which requires tough choices about what to prioritize.
Acclaim Products provides tools to support feature and work prioritization:
- Workboard – Drag-and-drop release planning options to organize, identify trade-offs and prioritize wor
- Value-Effort Matrix – Easy-to-understand matrix that graphs the value versus effort of the work
- Automated Backlog Prioritization – Work prioritized for you after entry of key data points
Prioritizing work becomes much easier when you understand the value it will bring to the stakeholders and the effort it will take to accomplish. By providing these two values to your work items, such as user stories, activities, or bugs, Acclaim Products will plot the work on a graph showing you which work will bring you the best value in the least amount of time. This way you have a visual to help you determine which work to complete – why and when – and confidently justify your choices to your stakeholders and teams.
In addition to seeing the value and effort each work item provides toward your overall goals, Acclaim Products will automatically build a prioritized backlog for you. Taking into account the value and effort plus additional factors, your work is prioritized to bring the most value. And it cannot be accidentally reprioritized like other tools.
Product history
Product development goes beyond end results. Every conversation, thread, and idea that went into building a particular product feature can be valuable, which makes preserving all the information and thoughts around your feature development process important.
Acclaim Products is architected to support your product history:
- Acclaim Products serves as a comprehensive product repository, capturing the history of your features and activities.
This historical data enables you to track progress, review past products, and extract valuable insights from your past efforts and ideas for future endeavors. With the ability to capture history and valuable insights, you ensure continuity of knowledge and facilitate the evolution of features with a clear understanding of their origins.
By centralizing feature management, fostering collaboration, and enabling effective prioritization of tasks, Acclaim Products helps you gain an enhanced ability to manage the complexities of product development and boost the efficiency of your entire product management process.
