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Quartz Product Model

Simplify your path from idea to market

Product organizations often struggle because they lack a common way to make decisions, prioritize investments, understand markets, and bring products to market.

The Quartz Product Model provides a comprehensive system to help organizations assess, design, implement, and continuously improve their product practices.​

Remove the confusion. Embrace consistency.

The Quartz Ecosystem

Quartz Product Model

Define the scope of activities from idea to market for product teams using a framework designed to be extended and adapted to your unique situation.

Quartz Certification

Develop practitioners who understand how to apply Quartz in real product organizations.

Team Assessments

Identify gaps in product practices, execution, ownership, and organizational alignment.

Implementation Coaches

Help teams translate the model into working practices appropriate to their organization.

Learning Programs

Give product teams a common language, practical methods, and consistent ways of working.

Advisory Services

Support product leaders as they establish or improve their product operating model.

Quartz Product Model

At the core of the Quartz product model is an open and adaptable framework, which provides the structure for activities and decisions.

Click any section to learn more. Click the Quartz icon to return to the model.

What is Quartz?

In under 4 minutes, Steve Johnson, architect of the Quartz Product Model, shows how to avoid the challenges of managing products when little or no process is in place.

Learn the concepts of the model in this video.

Put Quartz to work

Adopt Quartz

Use the model, tools, facilitation, coaching, and advisory support to establish an operating model that fits your organization.

Assess your organization

Find gaps in product practices, execution, ownership, and alignment.

Develop your team

Build a common language and consistent approach through Quartz learning programs.

Get a set of ready-to-use templates to kickstart your implementation of Quartz.

Quartz is free to use, easy to deploy in any organization, and open with a Creative Commons License.

Learn how to manage your products with Quartz

In Turn Ideas into Products, author Steve Johnson, architect of the Quartz Product Model, introduces a nimble idea-to-market process with a strong emphasis on personal experience with customers.

Certification exam

Leverage your product management training and your lifetime of experience to obtain Quartz Certification. 

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Certification is only $95.

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Thinking about starting your own practice? 

You already know how to lead a product organization. Yet, every client is different. That doesn't mean every engagement should start from scratch. How much of your practice is repeatable and how much is just you?​

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Learn how Quartz Product Leadership can turn decades of experience into a repeatable consulting practice. 

Quartz Product Model

Simplify your path from idea to market

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