For Product Managers

CogniDox is the "Glue" that holds the Product together

The role of the Product Manager in a typical high-tech company includes:

• Introducing and managing a phased product development lifecycle
• Having to manage multi-disciplinary teams of 30 or more people
• Overcoming difficulty in effective team communications
• Keeping hardware and software development in tandem
• Collaborating to manage project risks, issues and plans
• Working with offshore / outsourced development teams in different time zones
• Managing evolving requirements and change requests
• Moving from single to multiple project management
• Ensuring company is commercially-driven and customer-focussed
• Winning and retaining customer confidence during the design-in phase

Many high tech companies 'achieve through others' in bringing end-user products to market.

Companies who make it significantly easier for their technology to be designed-in to an end-user product will shorten their time-to-revenue and take an increasing market share; and companies who succeed in gaining design wins will stay designed-in for 80% of the time.

A Product Manager who invests time creating a CogniDox category for their product and manages all contributors' inputs through CogniDox will benefit from disciplined processes in planning and execution of product development. Program schedules will benefit from the multi site team integration and more efficient reviews that it brings. Because of the tight integration with R&D part of product development – software release and technical writing tools, for example – there will be fewer last-minute panics in defining what actually gets released.