Product Management In Brief

Integrating different departments:

• Research & Engineering: What’s possible
• Design: User Interface & Experience (user, gadget, environment, software) design
• Marketing & Strategy: What customers / consumers want? Competitors? Use Data analytics.
• Integration: Using some form of collective mind map that depicts all of the different components of the product in which everyone in the team can contribute. 

Steps:

• Design
• Prototype
• Test & Get user feedback
• Develop & Get user feedback & Employ Data Analytics

Scheduling:

• Working backwards from goal theoretically and starting with the features other parts most depend on (Topological sorting).
• Utilization of Operations Research models.

Human Resource Management & Team Management:

• Smart people want to innovate. Encourage them so that they can come up with innovative solutions in every step of the process and share with others.
• Gamify. Points, Badges, “Most innovative engineer” etc.
• Make sure all the team members really care about the product - startup like environment, enthusiasm.