Ryma Technology Solutions – Product Manager’s Perspective

The average product manager in software organizations works over 60 hours per week. Are you maximizing the quality of your time, generating crucial market insights and making well-informed product decisions?

Imagine working in an environment where you can prove your mastery of the market to your colleagues, backing up your decisions with market data. Where your routine activities are automated, giving you more time to interact with product stakeholders. Where your organization is completely aligned around your product roadmaps, and supports them completely, because they participate in the product innovation process.

That is just what Ryma’s on-demand and professional services can do for you.

Ryma Technology’s products allow you to truly enjoy your work, by:

	Getting more real work done in less time It is frustrating spending time doing routine tasks that should be automated. Creating custom analysis in a spreadsheet tool. Entering in requirements. Building product release plans and roadmaps. Building reports for management. Using Ryma tools, these functions and many others are automated, so you spend your time where they maximize the benefit to your company – and your career.
	Increasing your competence and confidence When your decisions are well-supported by market facts, they deliver better results and motivate the engineers, marketers and executives who depend on you. Product managers that use Ryma solutions feel confident in their product releases and roadmaps, knowing that the recommendations are accurate and timely.
	Increasing your visibility for rewards and recognition Great products are driven by unique market insights. When you work with Ryma services, your insights are well-documented and supported. When the products you manage outperform the competition, management will know that that you are as much a reason for their success as the engineering, marketing and sales teams – perhaps even more so. We take pride that “our” product managers get recognized and promoted for the quality of their work. Now you can spend your time talking with customers and working on with engineering on technical innovations rather than trying to manage hundreds of feature specifications and prioritization criteria manually with Word™ and Excel™. You can spend less time defending the product roadmap decisions internally and more time selling the product roadmap externally.

How do we do it ?

Our flagship products, FeaturePlan  and IdeaScope, can automate your Product Management process. The data then becomes your greatest asset and is always at hand to help you:

• Collect ideas and enhancement requests from all source and manage them in a central repository
  
  
• Create market requirements documents for innovative new products
  
  
• Create product specification documents for new and existing products
  
  
• Create feature enhancement requests for engineering to work directly from
  
  
• Create product roadmaps for internal and external use
  
  
• Make transparent and informed decisions on product priorities
  
  
• Explain and show the real market criteria used to make prioritization decision
  
  
• Allow your customers and internal stakeholders to vote on priorities and see the results of voting that drive actual decision making.

The Ryma Technology’s tools will help you lead your organization to adopt a true Integrated Product Management approach to product innovation. To help you in that task Ryma has developed a patented implementation process, called the Adaptive Product Management Foundation, that insures that your organization is not force fit into someone else’s way of doing things but that the Ryma tools are implemented to support “your way” of developing products. Whether your way is based on the Pragmatic Marketing® Framework, Stage-Gate®, or completely home grown, we want you to spend as much time as possible executing the process and innovating and as little time as possible chasing paperwork to comply with the process. The Adaptive Product Management Foundation allows us to truly link your People, Processes and Technology to get you up and running quickly by configuring the Adaptive Product Management Foundation methodologies to your unique way of doing business.

If you are ready to get started then contact us  to set up a meeting so we can show you more details about how we can help you right away. In the meantime we suggest you read the HBR article “Managing your Innovation Value Chain” and our white paper titled “The Business Case for the Integrated Product Management approach”. If you want to see how your organization stacks up against others, take the Innovation Adaptive Product Management Foundation  Value Chain challenge questionnaire and you may find that you are further along than you thought. We also invite you to join out thriving community, of Product Managers just like yourself, and read about what many of them are doing with the Ryma tools and their own processes to lead innovation activities at their companies. The community is called Product Management View, it is free to join and we think you will find it very valuable, and who knows you may even find your soul mate there.