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I have worked with many product managers on a product vision exercise. In my observation the place where the product managers get hung up the most is when they confuse product vision for product definition. To use an analogy, product vision is a trailer and product definition is a movie. When you're watching a movie trailer it excites you even though you fully don't know how good or bad the movie will be. Abstract and unfinished A trailer is a sequence of shots that are abstract enough not to reveal too much details about the movie but clear enough to give you the dots that your imagination could start connecting. Some of the best visions are also abstract and unfinished that leave plenty of opportunities for imagination. Product visions should focus on "why" and "what" and not on "how" and most importantly should have a narrative to excite people to buy into it and refine it later on. Vision should inspire the definition of a product and not defin...

Last Wednesday, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) John T. Brennan, Interoperability Clearinghouse (ICH) Executive Director, kicked off the Agile Cloud collaboration. This industry-wide effort is targeted at developing an open and inclusive cloud service brokerage environment capable of rapidly provisioning innovative technologies to the US Government on a fee for service basis. This cloud services environment will favor existing commercial services over custom development, will incorporate industry standards and will enforce a consistent implementation environment. Additional key characteristics will include: Interoperable technologies; A consistent acquisition model; Standard technical assessment framework; and a Standardized service level management model. A key difference between this and other government focused cloud computing efforts is that the Agile Cloud environment will be funded and implemented by industry. The kick-off event's keynote speaker was Polly Schaffer,  Industry Innovation...

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The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (ITAAC) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are announcing a slate of innovative leaders to serve as facilitators for the upcoming  " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session being held in Alexandria, VA on April 23, 2014. Enjoying a great response thus far, industry participants include Boeing, Oracle, Google,SAP, Leidos and Capgemini. Government participants include the US Navy, US Army, US House of Representatives and GSA. The confirmed facilitator lineup is: • Prospective Customers & Missions: Phil Dixon - Google • Tentative Service Catalog: Roger Bernhardt - Boeing • Governance and Management: Colleen Dealey - Cloudbound • Service Provisioning: Dave Rose - Oracle • Service Level Agreements: Angela Smith - GSA • Sourcing and Acquisition Procedures: Young Nam - Virtustream Due to conference room limitations and in response to numerous request,  "Virtua...

Associate Spotlight Interview with Kevin L. Jackson MBO Associate Since 10/2013 1)    Tell us a little bit about what you do. I am the CEO and founder of GovCloud Network, LLC . In a consultative role, I help companies develop and execute targeted media strategies via social media channels to over 1.5 million professionals across 20 industry verticals. With a specialty in cloud computing, we and our partners also provide the critical technical training and business education needed to thrive through the use of advanced information technology. For more information, please visit www . GovCloudNetwork.com . 2)    What led you to become an Independent Consultant? My position as a senior executive at my previous firm didn't give me the latitude to participate fully in the rapidly growing cloud computing consultative market. I felt that the rewards of becoming an independent consultant in this business area far outweighed the risks. 3)    How has the independent career path changed your...

The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (ITAAC) and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are honored to team with NGA in hosting the first " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session, April 23, 2014 at TIA headquarters. This not for profit and free industry event is designed to improve cloud computing standardization and interoperability. Polly Shaffer, NGA Industry Innovation Advocate , will be presenting at the " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session on April 23, 2014 . Jointly hosted by the ITAAC ( http://www.it-aac.org/ ), Telecommunications Industry Association ( http://www.TIAonline.org/ ) and NGA ( https://www1.nga.mil/ ). Attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate with government representatives on conceptualizing a multi-vendor marketplace from which NGA and other government entities could quickly source and acquire innovative and interoperable cloud co...