The CloudTeams Playbook combines best practices described in various guides and methodologies, in order to deliver a handbook for every Project Manager, a series of steps that should follow in order to increase the chances of launching a successful product. This handbook is accompanied with real-life scenarios that our team faced during the development phase of CloudTeams itself, and showcases the techniques we used to meet our goals. Nevertheless, the innovation that this Playbook brings is that it is accompanied by a web tool, the CloudTeams platform, which is designed to support the PM throughout different steps of the product development phase; this is the reason it is called a “Playbook” and not a “Handbook”, as it brings a playground for PMs to apply the theory, with a great level of flexibility and customization.
The Playbook should be read and mastered by people working as Product Managers, or people who want to become ones. However, it is expected to be shared with the team members, as well as with high levels of management, in order to help an organization to align its goals under a common mentality. The team that applies this Playbook may declared itself as “rigid”, “agile” or “lean”, but it may use parts or complete steps of the methodology and tools of the platform. To increase the chances to succeed on your goals, if you like what you read we would suggest you to share it within your organization with people that have similar “pains” as you; this is why it is available as a free e-book. The only thing we want is not to forget to attribute our work, and the work of other people we reference in our book; this is way we have chosen to publish this book under Creative Commons
