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IDC PlanScape: IT Product Management

Publisher IDC
Published Apr 24, 2025
Length 16 Pages
SKU # IDC19991530

Description

Technology departments are in the business of delivering a range of technology services — communications, transaction processing, analytics, data, and so forth. By treating the major technology services as products — each with a set of desired outcomes, knowledge of customer needs, and life-cycle management — technology leadership is more likely to be responsive to the changing conditions and proactive in its planning and delivery of the technology services it provides.Leveraging the existing best practices for product management — product goals and objectives, life-cycle management from introduction through retirement, product road maps, and processes for changes to the road map — technology leaders can shift from a reactive, project-to-project environment to a more intentional and, by gathering inputs from a wide range of stakeholders, more comprehensive approach to technology service management.If IT product management is new to the organization, there is benefit in, as a starting point, implementing product management with a subset of the technology services, revising the approach based on what is learned, and then expanding to cover all of the major technology services (infrastructure, application, analytics, AI, etc.).

Table of Contents

16 Pages

IDC PlanScape Figure

Executive Summary

Why Is IT Product Management Important?

What Is IT Product Management?

Why Use Product Management for Technology Services?

Who Are the Key Stakeholders?

How Can My Organization Take Advantage of IT Product Management?

Definition of Product and Services Goals and Outcomes

Development of the Road Map

Inputs to the Product Road Map

Three-Horizons Planning

Assessment of Architectural Fit

Validation of the Road Map

Delivery of the Road Map

Review/Update of the Road Map

Retirement/Replacement of the Service

Advice for Technology Buyers

Related Research

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