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We have worked with a huge range of companies developing enterprise software products.

Many of them struggle with how to develop high-quality enterprise-grade software, product customization, and how to handle technical debt. And, typically these companies have a strong focus on product management.

The challenges we see depend on many factors including the size of target customers, company structure and development approach. They include:

Maturing the product management role to become more leading and strategic within the business
Maximizing the value of agile development in a business run with waterfall style governance
Getting the balance right between bespoke customer work and the efficiencies of a product-based approach
Balancing responsibilities for internal platforms and external products
Handling the challenges of localization across different markets

Many companies have run private on-site training courses for their teams. This has helped establish a common way of working and addressed specific issues. Others have sent participants to our public courses where they get a chance to learn with peers from other industries.

I’ve used other companies for product management training in the past but this was the best I’ve seen – I and everyone in my team rated the course as ‘excellent’.

Simon Witkiss, Product Director, IRIS Software Group

Excellent course, wish I’d done this a year ago when I started as a PM. It would’ve changed my view on leaving product management, but decision already made!

Cheryl Paterson, Product Manager, Allocate Software

We recently used Product Focus to deliver some excellent bespoke training to our Product and Marketing team and the feedback was really great – thank you!

Hanna Smith, HR Director, Madgex

The product manager course was paced well and covered a huge number of topics which you tend to take for granted, but it filled in the detail that I had forgotten about. The interactive group sessions were fun and informative and reinforced the exercises we had completed.

Rik Mellors, Product Manager, MHR

Good material very well presented at a good pace and in a relaxed, enjoyable way. The interaction with the other delegates also brought situations to life well. The course resources and year’s subscription to updates through their website will also be useful reference material going forwards.

Andy Laver, Product Owner, MHR

Highly recommend the course, even for experienced product managers, as it provides a holistic view of all areas of product management & reinforces a structured approach to successfully managing technology-based products.

Arshad Mahmood, Product Manager, Peppermint Technology

Good PM training course – well organized. The tools & templates provided are very useful for daily activities to manage the PM tasks and help make the decisions!

Benoit Roussel, Product Manager, Flowbird

Overnight after the training, it became easier to raise issues and design decisions. I can thank the exercises and discussions in class. In the future, I look forward to applying a few of the techniques when talking with customers and gaining their feedback on the first release.

Roy Matthews, Business Analyst, Dunnhumby