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Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development

The Product Coalition

Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. It can be used by product managers to develop products in a more agile and collaborative way. By understanding the basics of Scrum and how it works in practice, you can get started on your own Agile journey as a product manager.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

With Scrum came the POs, and with the new POs, came the interest for real Product Management. -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. Executives realized the importance of being close to their customers in order to build great products. -- 2013: "We don't do experiments here, Melissa. It is too risky. We will get sued.

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Agile Movers & Shakers (7): Ryan Ripley

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley Today’s guest is Ryan Ripley. He hosts the Agile for Humans podcast and most recently co-wrote Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions for Common Scrum Problems with Todd Miller for PragProg. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. Todd Miller.”

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Layoffs: Has the Product Management Industry Failed Us?

The Product Coalition

If we were truly lean and agile, shouldn’t we be way below the 153,000 layoffs mark? The limit of Product Product as a whole was built on top of two solid foundations: Agile and Lean. Taken from finbox.com The graph above shows quite clearly that Amazon’s business scalability has fallen since 2013 and never quite recovered.

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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

Make your strategy more Agile, Tim Leberecht, October 31, 2016. Economist Intelligence Unit, 2013. Product Strategy, Matt Cagan, April 10, 2009. The Fundamentals – Objectives & Key Results, NikeT , Nov 27, 2014. The Ten-Step, One-Day Strategic Plan, Erica Olsen, August 10, 2016. What is Good Product Strategy?

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Why So Many Products Fail to Create Value

The Product Guy

We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. Let’s go Agile! In the attempt to reduce waste and maximize the chances of success, many companies embrace Agile, at least on the surface. Enter Lean Customer Development.

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Be in a Band, not an Orchestra: how to Grow an Agile Product Team

Mind the Product

Many of these will probably be familiar to you from the agile manifesto but it required some convincing of a large traditional organisation like the OU. We launched the website on time in September, and ran our first course in Oct 2013. A single product owner with decision-making authority. Power Trio. Where next?

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