The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. What is product development?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Thus, custom software development and engineers face the same challenges faced by the market demand. Read the article to know what it is? What is continuous improvement ?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Managing Product Development [Prev : Chapter 14?—?How Product Management 101 ] There are several methodologies to develop a Software Product. Traditionally, Waterfall model was used as an SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Methodology. Iterative v/s Incremental Development. Incremental Product Development? —?means

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product. .”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It’s how to communicate to developers what to build. I conducted competitive analysis for the feature. The actual development required was miniscule. We set the task as ‘ready to develop’. The next check in, we all agreed, would be from the development team before they began development. Everything.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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Split

APRIL 24, 2024

Managing numerous testing environments poses a significant hurdle in the complex sphere of software development. More test cases, more test results, more test data, and more testing teams interjected into the software development lifecycle. Test environments are where code becomes a reality.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose?—?solving Here is where the forensic Product Backlog analysis steps in, a light-weight, simple practice to help Product Owners and Scrum Masters unearth anti-patterns that led to your low-value Product Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. A typical product development process would follow the Waterfall principles, taking quarters, and even a year to release a product to the market.

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

If used properly, they can be an invaluable asset to the development process. By enabling feature toggles within the codebase, developers can quickly turn ON or OFF features without having to go through the entire development cycle over and over again. Feature toggles have become increasingly popular among software developers.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Split

JULY 13, 2023

The need for efficient and effective software development methodologies has never been more paramount. Amid this incessant search for perfection, two paradigms have become prominent: Test-driven development (TDD) and feature flag-driven development (FFDD).

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The Role of Throughput in Agile In Agile frameworks, throughput typically refers to the quantity of work items (like features, user stories, or tasks) completed within a specific timeframe. Review Result Analysis: Post-simulation, you will see a distribution of potential outcomes.

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Split

MARCH 14, 2024

From the initial stages of design and development to the crucial phases of testing and deployment, each step in the software development lifecycle shapes the quality and effectiveness of the final product. Within this development lifecycle, a comprehensive test environment is critical for ensuring software reliability and performance.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals. Level 1: Product Delivery If your job is to decide how features are implemented and if you work with one or two development teams to deliver them, then you are at level one.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. So what are the differences?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Remote development teams have accelerated from being nice to have to become the need of the hour. Why Should you hire a remote development team? A company might choose to hire digital teams and outsource projects or hire dedicated developers to fill gaps in existing teams. How to hire a remote development team?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As companies scale their agile product development practices they can struggle with the complexity of managing multiple interdependent products, teams & components. Clearly define ‘what’ products exist in your portfolio & assign each an owner, agnostic of agile teams. Invest in products not projects.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

As specialized product professionals, they are critical roles that help startups and established companies develop, launch, and manage products that provide financial services to a target audience. Finance PMs must know the challenges that businesses face in this niche as well as the products that they develop to target possible consumers.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. An agile approach requires a change in culture at the team level, at the portfolio level, and in management. Agile approaches change what we discuss, how we work together, and what we reward. Release trains.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we explore the subsequent sections, we will uncover how this iterative approach to product development has revolutionized the way products are conceived, developed, and refined. A paradigm shift in product development Real-world case studies Netflix: Shaping the future of online entertainment ? Development 4.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2024

For example, venture capital investors are backing startups with the resources needed to accelerate research, develop pioneering products, and navigate the intricate regulatory landscapes associated with their innovations. Finding customer demand in deep tech products with long development cycles is another significant challenge.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. It’s tempting to think that the developers?—?engineers, Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Development ?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

When you combine a simple portfolio SWOT analysis with market growth forecasts, the data paints a very clear and factual picture of your most lucrative market segments in pecking order. Does portfolio management impact our agile process? Nothing changes about how you work with your development teams. Here’s a bonus.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I expect most people reading this now would say “we are agile”. The nasty truth is that very few companies are agile, it is a big illusion, and it is stalling your company and your growth. Companies who are agile stand out above the others with innovation and market share. We need a serious talk about The Agile Illusion.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2021

We talked with agile consultant Liz Keogh about how to get this right, who estimates are for, her invaluable scale for estimating complexity, and how to pronounce the word Cynefin. Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). ’ piece at Agile Alliance. In this episode, sponsored by Hotjar, listen to learn [.]. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 11, 2017

When an executive, too far removed from what makes creating products hard thinks of “agile” as a silver bullet it becomes difficult to manage expectations. The business practice of agility (small a) – specifically when an organization, and not just a technology team, adopts the practice – has a lot of potential.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 17, 2021

In this post we’re publishing the full results as well as our own analysis and take on them. Although smaller, earlier stage companies are often viewed as innovative, agile, and forward-looking, we were surprised that so many in this size range were fully office based, even in a group as thoughtful as BoS attendees. Background.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 27, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. The Product Backlog may also be adjusted overall to meet new opportunities.”

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. Here are just the one I've experienced in the 70s, 80s, 90s: Structured Analysis and Design. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development.

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