16 Questions to Assess Your Product Management Life Cycle

Click on this link to Get your FREE Product Life Cycle Assessment Questions to be able to assess your product management lifecycle.

If you have been following this blog, you will know that we at Spice Catalyst have identified six key and SPICEY things a company must have to ensure they will have successful products.  

One of them is to have a well-defined product management lifecycle process.

That’s nice, but how do you know if the one you got is working and can be improved?

Over the years I have developed 16 questions you can ask to conduct your assessment.

They cover all the interpersonal and inter-organizational behavior questions that are key to understanding what is working well, what is not and what your team should suggest being done about it. It also covers asking about the inputs that help your team get the job done and what competencies they need to do their job.  The questions will also help you get a feel for how well your team understands your company’s culture and whether or not the culture is enhancing success — or encouraging failure.

Product Management Life Cycle Assessment Yourself

You can use these questions to do interviews throughout the company yourself or…hire a 

Product Management Life Cycle Assessment Consultant

Or, you could hire a McKinsey-like consultancy and have one of their newly-minted MBAs come out and interview everybody, give no one in your organization credit for their time or views, then charge you big bucks.  I know, I had that done to me when I was at Apple and Dataquest.

Or, find someone that knows how to listen, observe, and pull together the findings in a compelling report/presentation that can make a difference…hmmm, all the good qualities of a great product manager.

(Here comes the commercial. If you are going to look for outside help, why not hire Spice Catalyst?  We’ve done it before and are good listeners and can compare and contrast your real-world challenges with what we have seen work well as similar organizations… End of shameless self-promotion.)

In any case, get your assessment list here and start assessing!