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Product Information Management
by Jorij AbrahamProduct Information Management is the latest topic that companies across the world are deliberating upon. As companies sell online, they are confronted with the fact that not all information necessary to sell their products is available. Where marketing, sales and finance have been core processes of the corporate world for a long time, PIM is a new business process with its own unique implementation and management challenges. The book describes the core PIM processes; their strategic, tactical and operational benefits and implementation challenges. The book has been written for managers, business users as well as students, and illustrates the different concepts with practical cases from companies like Coca Cola, Nikon and Thomas Cook.
Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
by Richard Banfield Martin Eriksson Nate WalkingshawIn today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and it’s rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others don’t?This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over the world. Authors Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw draw on decades of experience in product design and development to capture the approaches, styles, insights, and techniques of successful product managers. If you want to understand what drives good product leaders, this book is an irreplaceable resource.In three parts, Product Leadership helps you explore:Themes and patterns of successful teams and their leaders, and ways to attain those characteristicsBest approaches for guiding your product team through the startup, emerging, and enterprise stages of a company’s evolutionStrategies and tactics for working with customers, agencies, partners, and external stakeholders
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): A Digital Journey Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
by Uthayan ElangovanProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM): A Digital Journey Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) provides a summary of the essential topics of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the era of Industry 4.0. The book discusses emerging technologies, their contribution towards enhancing product design, development, and manufacturing. It also presents the integration of PLM, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) along with IIoT as well the integration of mechanical, electronic components, embedded systems, firmware and software focusing on smart design, development, and manufacturing in the digital transformation journey. The book provides a high-level overview of how the smart product development through smart manufacturing materializes within the smart ecosystem. Manufacturing professionals, designers, mechanical, electrical, electronics, instrumentation and industrial engineers, information and communication technology consultants and those working in production planning, process control, and operations will find this book invaluable.
Product Lifecycle Management Enabling Smart X: 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2020, Rapperswil, Switzerland, July 5–8, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #594)
by Abdelaziz Bouras Louis Rivest José Ríos Felix NyffeneggerThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2020, held in Rapperswil, Switzerland, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 technical industrial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: smart factory; digital twins; Internet of Things (IoT, IIoT); analytics in the order fulfillment process; ontologies for interoperability; tools to support early design phases; new product development; business models; circular economy; maturity implementation and adoption; model based systems engineering; artificial intelligence in CAx, MBE, and PLM; building information modelling; and industrial technical contributions.
Product Lifecycle Management in the Digital Twin Era: 16th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2019, Moscow, Russia, July 8–12, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #565)
by Alain Bernard Abdelaziz Bouras Louis Rivest Clement FortinThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in July 2019. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: 3D modelling and data structures; PLM maturity and industry 4.0; ontologies and semantics; PLM and conceptual design; knowledge and change management; IoT and PLM; integrating manufacturing realities; and integration of in-service and operation.
Product Lifecycle Management to Support Industry 4.0: 15th Ifip Wg 5. 1 International Conference, Plm 2018, Turin, Italy, July 2-4, 2018, Proceedings (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #540)
by Abdelaziz Bouras José Ríos Paolo Chiabert Frédéric NoëlThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2018, held in Turin, Spain, in July 2018.The 72 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: building information modeling; collaborative environments and new product development; PLM for digital factories and cyber physical systems; ontologies and data models; education in the field of industry 4.0; product-service systems and smart products; lean organization for industry 4.0; knowledge management and information sharing; PLM infrastructure and implementation; PLM maturity, implementation and adoption; 3D printing and additive manufacturing; and modular design and products and configuration and change management.
Product Lifecycle Management. Green and Blue Technologies to Support Smart and Sustainable Organizations: 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2021, Curitiba, Brazil, July 11–14, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #639)
by Abdelaziz Bouras Louis Rivest Frédéric Noël Osiris Canciglieri JuniorThe two-volume set IFIP AICT 639 and 640 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2021, held in Curitiba, Brazil, during July 11-14, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.The 107 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Sustainability, sustainable development and circular economy; sustainability and information technologies and services; green and blue technologies; AI and blockchain integration with enterprise applications; PLM maturity, PLM implementation and adoption within industry 4.0; and industry 4.0 and emerging technologies: Volume II: Design, education and management; lean, design and innovation technologies; information technology models and design; and models, manufacturing and information technologies and services.
Product Lifecycle Management. Leveraging Digital Twins, Circular Economy, and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Innovation: 20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2023, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 9–12, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #701)
by Abdelaziz Bouras Ramy Harik Louis Rivest Felix Nyffenegger Christophe DanjouThis two-volume set IFIP AICT 701-702 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management: Leveraging Digital Twins, Circular Economy, and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Innovation, PLM 2023, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during July 9–12, 2023. The 61 regular papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. They are organized in the following thematic sections: Part I: Technology implementation: augmented reality, CPS and digital twin; organisation: knowledge management, change management, frameworks for project and service development; modelisation : CAD and collaboration, model-based system engineering and building information modeling. Part II: Circular economy: characterization, criteria and implementation; interoperability technology: blockchain, IoT and ontologies for data exchange; learning and training: from AI to a human-centric approach; smart processes: prediction, optimization and digital thread.
Product Lifecycle Management. Leveraging Digital Twins, Circular Economy, and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Innovation: 20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2023, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 9–12, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #702)
by Abdelaziz Bouras Ramy Harik Louis Rivest Felix Nyffenegger Christophe DanjouThis two-volume set IFIP AICT 701-702 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management: Leveraging Digital Twins, Circular Economy, and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Innovation, PLM 2023, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during July 9–12, 2023. The 61 regular papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. They are organized in the following thematic sections: Part I: Technology implementation: augmented reality, CPS and digital twin; organisation: knowledge management, change management, frameworks for project and service development; modelisation : CAD and collaboration, model-based system engineering and building information modeling. Part II: Circular economy: characterization, criteria and implementation; interoperability technology: blockchain, IoT and ontologies for data exchange; learning and training: from AI to a human-centric approach; smart processes: prediction, optimization and digital thread.
Product Lifecycle Management. PLM in Transition Times: 19th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2022, Grenoble, France, July 10–13, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #667)
by Abdelaziz Bouras Louis Rivest Frédéric Noël Felix NyffeneggerThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2022, Grenoble, France, July 10–13, 2022, Revised Selected Papers.The 67 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Organisation: Knowledge Management, Business Models, Sustainability, End-to-End PLM, Modelling tools: Model-Based Systems Engineering, Geometric modelling, Maturity models, Digital Chain Process, Transversal Tools: Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Visualization and Interaction, Machine learning, Product development: Design Methods, Building Design, Smart Products, New Product Development, Manufacturing: Sustainable Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, Models for Manufacturing.
Product Lifecycle Management: PLM and Digital Twins (Decision Engineering)
by John StarkThis volume addresses the convergence of three technologies that emerged in the early 21st century: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Digital Twins. These are available to all manufacturing companies as their products go through the product lifecycle. This starts with Ideation, continues through Definition, Realisation and Use/Support, and ends with Retirement/Disposal. This book is the 7th volume in a series that started in 2004 with the publication of ‘Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation’, which has become a seminal book on PLM. The first chapters of the book address the fundamentals of PLM, the IoT and Digital Twins, highlighting their value and benefits. The following chapters look at applications and advantages resulting from the convergence of the three technologies in specific phases of the product lifecycle. Digital Twin applications in these phases include decision support, design iteration acceleration, predictive analytics and maintenance, product and process documentation, product upgrades, product and manufacturing process simulation, quality assurance, remote monitoring and troubleshooting, remote sales, training, virtual prototyping, and virtual showrooms. The final chapter addresses the implementation of an integrated PLM and Digital Twin environment. The book gives the reader a broad understanding, valuable insights, and practical guidance about three important technologies and the way they are converging and evolving together. It will stimulate innovation, propel companies forward, and motivate them to succeed in an increasingly digitally connected product world.
Product Management in Practice: A Practical, Tactical Guide for Your First Day and Every Day After
by Matt LeMayProduct management has become a critical function for modern organizations, from small startups to corporate enterprises. And yet, the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product managers are high-flying visionaries who build products that people love. In practice, they're hard-working facilitators who bring clarity and focus to their teams.In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition, Matt LeMay provides real-world guidance for current and aspiring product managers. Updated for the era of remote and hybrid work, this book provides actionable answers to product management's most persistent and confounding questions, starting with: What exactly am I supposed to do all day?With this book, you'll learn:What the day-to-day work of product management entails--and how to excel at itWhy no job title or description will resolve the ambiguity of your roleHow to bridge the false dichotomy between "strategy" and "execution"Why the temptation to focus on decks and documentation can be bad for your team (and for you)How to prioritize your time and pick your battles
Product Management in Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century
by Matt LeMayProduct management has become a critical connective role for modern organizations, from small technology startups to global corporate enterprises. And yet the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product management is about building products that people love. The real-world practice of product management is often about difficult conversations, practical compromises, and hard-won incremental gains.In this book, author Matt LeMay focuses on the CORE connective skills—communication, organization, research, execution—that can build a successful product management practice across industries, organizations, teams, and toolsets.For current and would-be product managers, this book explores:Real-world tactics for facilitating collaboration and communicationHow to talk to users and work with executivesThe importance of setting clear and actionable goalsUsing roadmaps to connect and align your teamA values-first approach to implementing Agile practicesStories that convey realities of product management in the fieldCommon behavioral traps that turn good product managers bad
Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications
by Guenther RuheBusiness success hinges on successfully creating products with the right features. You must correctly analyze the needs of the customer and match these needs with your resources to not only produce a product and but also deliver it in a timely manner. An in-depth understanding of systematic release planning can put you on this path. Authored by ren
Product Research Rules: Nine Foundational Rules For Product Teams To Run Accurate Research That Delivers Actionable Insight
by C. Todd Lombardo Michael Connors Aras BilgenDigital product research doesn't have to be difficult, take a long time, or cost a lot of money. Nor should it be a job solely for scientists or expert researchers. In this practical book, Aras Bilgen, C. Todd Lombardo, and Michael Connors demonstrate how your entire team can conduct effective product research within a couple of weeks--easily, cheaply, and without compromising quality.Drawing from decades of experience in product development, the authors lay out nine simple rules that combine user research, market research, and product analytics to quickly discover insights and build products customers truly need.Recognize and avoid common research pitfallsSwitch to the insight-making mindset that underlies all successful research effortsFind out how to look at data, formulate the right questions, and pick the right research methodLearn interview techniques and research skillsAnalyze for insights collaboratively while avoiding biasInspire action with your insights through powerful presentations and prototypesLearn how to involve a wide variety of stakeholders in research, from developers to executivesDiscover how you can make research a habit, not a one-off effort
Product Research: The Art and Science Behind Successful Product Launches
by John A. Cafeo N. R. RaghavanThis book is a collection of research papers to be presented at the GM R&D India Science Lab workshop on Art and Science of Product Development held at Bangalore, India. Leading researchers from around the world, and from within GM, present some of their latest research and experience around methodologies and analytics that we believe, are very critical to any product development activity. This book has articles in four major pillars of product development research: a, uncertainty modeling and information integration; b, role of behavioral research in understanding customer requirements and designing products; c, advanced analytical approaches for identifying voice of the customer; and d, human centered decision making and its role in product development.
Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
by C. Todd Lombardo Evan Ryan Michael Connors Bruce McCarthyA good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy.This practical guide teaches you how to create an effective product roadmap, and demonstrates how to use the roadmap to align stakeholders and prioritize ideas and requests. With it, you’ll learn to communicate how your products will make your customers and organization successful.Whether you're a product manager, product owner, business analyst, program manager, project manager, scrum master, lead developer, designer, development manager, entrepreneur, or business owner, this book will show you how to:Articulate an inspiring vision and goals for your productPrioritize ruthlessly and scientificallyProtect against pursuing seemingly good ideas without evaluation and prioritizationEnsure alignment with stakeholdersInspire loyalty and over-delivery from your teamGet your sales team working with you instead of against youBring a user and buyer-centric approach to planning and decision-makingAnticipate opportunities and stay ahead of the gamePublish a comprehensive roadmap without overcommitting
Product of Random Stochastic Matrices and Distributed Averaging
by Behrouz TouriThe thesis deals with averaging dynamics in a multiagent networked system, which is a main mechanism for diffusing the information over such networks. It arises in a wide range of applications in engineered physical networks (such as mobile communication and sensor networks), as well as social and economic networks. The thesis provides in depth study of stability and other phenomena characterizing the limiting behavior of both deterministic and random averaging dynamics. By developing new concepts, and using the tools from dynamic system theory and non-negative matrix theory, several novel fundamental results are rigorously developed. These contribute significantly to our understanding of averaging dynamics as well as to non-negative random matrix theory. The exposition, although highly rigorous and technical, is elegant and insightful, and accompanied with numerous illustrative examples, which makes this thesis work easily accessible to those just entering this field and will also be much appreciated by experts in the field.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
by Michael Felderer Pekka Abrahamsson Andreas Jedlitschka Anh Nguyen Duc Sousuke Amasaki Tommi MikkonenThe Eight International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Impro- ment (PROFES 2007) brought together researchers and industrial practitioners to report new research results and exchange experiences and findings in the area of process and product improvement. The focus of the conference is on understanding, learning, evaluating, and improving the relationships between process improvement activities (such as the deployment of innovative defect detection processes) and their effects in products (such as improved product reliability and safety). Consequently, major topics of the conference include the evaluation of existing software process improvement (SPI) approaches in different contexts, the presentation of new or mo- fied SPI approaches, and the relation between SPI and new development techniques or emerging application domains. This year s conference theme focused on global software development. More and more products are being developed in distributed, global development environments with many customer supplier relations in the value chain. Outsourcing, off-shoring, near-shoring, and even in-sourcing aggravate this trend further. Supporting such d- tributed development requires well-understood and accurately implemented devel- ment process interfaces, process synchronization, and an efficient process evolution mechanisms. Overcoming cultural barriers and implementing efficient communi- tion channels are some of the key challenges. It is clear that process improvement approaches also need to consider these new development contexts. "
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
by Barbara Russo Pekka Abrahamsson Luis Corral Markku OivoThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015, held in Bolzano, Italy, in December 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and 18 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on lessons learned from industry-researchcollaborations; instruments to improve the software developmentprocess; requirements, features, and release management; practices of modern development processes; human factors in modern software development; effort and size estimation validated by professionals; empirical generalization; software reliability and testing in industry; workshop on processes, methods and tools for engineering embedded systems; workshop on human factors in software development processes; and workshop on software startups: state of the art and state of the practice.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. Industry-, Workshop-, and Doctoral Symposium Papers: 25th International Conference, PROFES 2024, Tartu, Estonia, December 2–4, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15453)
by Dietmar Pfahl Jil Klünder Javier Gonzalez Huerta Hina AnwarThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2024, held in Tartu, Estonia, during December 2–4, 2024. The 9 Industry papers, 2 Workshop papers, 2 Doctoral symposium papers and 1 Keynote paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Industry Papers; Third Workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software (PPQS 2024); and Doctoral Symposium Papers.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29–December 1, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10611)
by Dietmar Winkler Michael Felderer Federica Sarro Daniel Méndez Fernández Burak Turhan Marcos KalinowskiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2017, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in November/December 2017. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers, 21 workshop papers. 3 posters and tool demonstrations papers, and 4 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on : Agile software Development; Data science and analytics; Software engineering processes and frameworks; Industry relevant qualitative research; User and value centric approaches; Software startups; Serum; Software testing.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 19th International Conference, PROFES 2018, Wolfsburg, Germany, November 28–30, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11271)
by Kurt Schneider Marco Kuhrmann Sousuke Amasaki Dietmar Pfahl Marcus Ciolkowski Regina Hebig Paolo Tell Jil Klünder Steffen KüpperThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2018, held in Wolfsburg, Germany, in November 2018.The 16 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 10 workshop papers and 2 industry talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: processes and methods; empirical studies in industry; testing; measuremene and monitoring; and global software engineering and scaling. Further relevant topics were added by the events co-located with PROFES 2018, the Second International Workshop on Managing Quality in Agile and Rapid Software Development Processes (QUASD) and the Third Workshop on Hybrid Software and System Development Approaches (HELENA).
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 20th International Conference, PROFES 2019, Barcelona, Spain, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11915)
by Xavier Franch Tomi Männistö Silverio Martínez-FernándezThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2019, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2019.The 24 revised full papers 4 industry papers, and 11 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product and service quality needs. They are organized in topical sections on testing, software development, technical debt, estimations, continuous delivery, agile, project management, microservices, and continuous experimentation. This book also includes papers from the co-located events: 10 project papers, 8 workshop papers, and 4 tutorial summaries.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 21st International Conference, PROFES 2020, Turin, Italy, November 25–27, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12562)
by Andreas Jedlitschka Maurizio Morisio Marco TorchianoThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2020, held in Turin, Italy, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 19 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product and service quality needs. They are organized in topical sections on Agile Software Development.