This open learning resource aims help you develop your own personal stance towards organising digital projects and managing the development process. There will always be a tension between what some perceive to be the rigorous approach to product management versus the flexible approach. The desire for control must be balanced against the need for flexibility.
There are various stances on product management, be it agile or project management or some other philosophy informs thinking. Working in the field you should reflection on the relative merits of various related industry attempts to 'scale and standardise' product management, in particular, systems for large teams doing distributed development, large scale deployment/operations.
- The AgileAlliance's certification services (https://www.scrumalliance.org/)
- The LeSS framework (Large-Scale Scrum https://less.works/)
- The SAFe framework (Scaled Agile Framework https://www.scaledagileframework.com/)
- The PRINCE2 framework (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRINCE2)
- The ISO9001:2015 Quality Management (https://www.nsai.ie/certification/management-systems/iso-9001-quality-management/)
- Oh, and of course, general project management.
