Business Plan

Description

The Business Plan is typically a plan produced by a product manager for a specific proposed product or service. This is roughly equivalent to a program plan when conducting an organizational transformation.

The Business Plan represents the contribution of all Members of a Product Team.

The resulting P/L for an investment in a product is a type of Investment Model.

Product Team

A Business Case for a Program is closely related to this Business Plan.

Contents

  • Marketing Data
  • Marketing Plan
  • Engineering Plan
  • Manufacturing Plan
  • Customer Services Plan
  • Top Level P/L Package
  • Team structure

Languages, Notations, Conventions

P/L Package structure.

Methods - Create, Analysis, Identify

Created by Product Manager and their team

Updated version available at the end of stage or larger Project within a Phase.

Modelling Techniques

Business Plan

Examples

See Process document from Digital Equipment Corporation

See Business Model Generation and the Business Model Canvas (This is a product / service based model of the value delivered to customers.) This has some information for a business plan.

References

Model Kind Links