PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

A product manager that I hire needs to always keep in the mind the product vision and key success factors, and emphasize them through all of the discussions with company teams that seek to limit their own team's effort, expenditure, or risk, and will blindly limit the product's potential. Product vision statement 5. Product Vision 4.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Agile, discovery, experimentation have all become embedded in what we do. I have even met product teams who define their mission as being “exemplary at agile” in their organisation. Agile is not a strategy. That’s why you have to start with vision and strategy, they give you purpose and direction. Emotional.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

Aside from generating revenue, it’s also important to check if the solution aligns with the business’s direction, vision, and values. These processes with IMPACT can help you articulate what’s meaningful to business: Vision & Mission—Although it’s often handed down from senior management, it still influences your work.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

An outcome-based roadmap just sounds like a c-suite failing to construct a functional product organisation.”. Creating space for discovery and experimentation is crucial for agile development. Think waterfall vs agile methodologies.). When Agile came along, the idea of an ‘end date’ or ‘end product’ ceased to exist.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The only constructive byproduct is a learning experience worth communicating to save other products from succumbing to the same mistakes. Vision: The art of Seeing What is Invisible to Others. Moreover, regardless of the delivery methodology (waterfall, agile, pseudo-agile, SAFe etc.) Prioritization: Keep it in Order.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Product definition can become an isolated activity even for an agile environment that encourages collaboration. In the daily grind, with project groups engrossed in their specific tasks, the product owner endures the worst part of outlining the product vision. The person in question actually has responsibility for product vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

Shared vision & working practices At the organisation level your vision should be value-driven, emotionally engaging, & underpinned by metrics. In agile software methodologies we run “retrospective meetings” focused on improving our practices every 2 weeks?—?my Delegate & challenge constructively.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A properly constructed value proposition is extremely compelling to prospects. It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. .” I’m sure you’ve heard this term. Here are a few of my favorites: Stack ranking.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 3, 2020

A well-constructed epic achieves two objectives. This coherence check is the first important alignment activity required to assure the organization is effectively executing on the vision of the organization. Through the problem statement we can collaborate to achieve a shared understanding of how the teams will realize the vision.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

This role requires extensive experience in managing multiple agile product management teams. For example, listen to your team members without judging them and always try to provide constructive feedback motivating them to achieve the business goals. Thus it is important to get involved in new ventures as much as possible.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

Be Faithful to Agile Principles. While everyone in your team needs to be united by the same vision, it’s far more important that your team works in close collaboration and everyone understands the impact of their work on the rest of the team. It’s OK to improvise without knowing where this will take you.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. The only constant you see throughout the growth of a company is the need to align strategy and vision throughout all of the groups, as product managers, we need to make it part of our core goal.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality. He did, however, have a few gems.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

If the CS team was advanced enough, CS Ops were building out onboarding procedures, enabling support with better motions, and constructing customer-facing teams, such as renewals, while keeping them aligned. These questions are grouped together because they center on a particular quality: the vision to see the bigger picture.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. For example, organizations moving to an agile development process may have greater uncertainty over a longer period. If you’re an agile organization and you’re working in epics and stories,the roadmap should be at that epic level. But there are some caveats.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. You can learn more about effectively guiding the development team as the product manager or product owner by: Attending my Product Leadership Workshop ; Reading my book Agile Product Management with Scrum. Assume that the team members want to do their best. Be honest and open.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

When a clear path and vision is necessary for success, it makes sense that taking the proactive approach would yield the best chances. By seeing what issues may come with each step of product development, they can remain keen and agile, adjusting and shifting as necessary. Be a communicator. Even set a specific time do it.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

But most teams do a poor job of constructing hypotheses, or laying out their expectations of what the product release is meant to get them. Anchored to your solution, iterating from product release to product release, hoping to discover the missing piece that will make your vision come alive. Garbage in?—?garbage garbage out.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

Different ways of thinking in the workplace Working with somebody that sees things in a very different way than you do must be taken as a constructive challenge, not as an issue. I have some thoughts about this and I will share with you in the following article. All those steps must be time-boxed and measured.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It doesn’t align to the product vision, nor to the business goals. Constructive critique. The agile design process is about iteration agile, so critique can help a team find what needs changing. The designer has presented their masterpiece; they anticipate feedback; you were awaiting it; the deadline nears.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A product is no different from a well-constructed story. Agile development. They’re responsible for turning your product vision into a tangible product users appreciate and gravitate to. Explore each idea and evaluate how each one adds to the product vision. Editorial mindset.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I didn’t know if I wanted to be a librarian, but I wanted to bring librarianship to new settings, like this big information world we were constructing out of digital stuff. You might have to be thinking about how your organization is part of an agile process. How does it work with the methodologies for creating products?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Learn more on Retrospectives.)

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Haines-Group

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Product Management establishes the vision for exactly what we should make, Engineering/Development designs and builds it, and Marketing figures out how to get customers to buy it. The result is increased agility and proactivity. The second issue with journey maps is the importance of constructing both current and future state versions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

The ability to build constructively in a limited-resource environment (potentially having to wear several hats) is the most important to us. If I see the terms “Agile expert” or “scrum master” in the resume, it’s probably not going to be a great fit.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

From aviation’s decade-spanning aircraft design challenges to construction projects exceeding budgets and deadlines—the common thread is the struggle with unforeseen variables in the real-world. Popular methodologies that embrace both iterative processes and incremental principles include Scrum and Agile development.

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Sequent Learning

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some of those little steering motions are short-term things reactive to a specific deal, reactive to a specific change in technology, or their long-term concepts as we think about our product and our vision of our product, and where we go with a roadmap. The person who oversees all of our general construction and roofing sales.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Use Lean Startup practices and be as Agile as you need to be in each learning phase—the customer value preposition, the business model, and the model to scale. Practices like these make existing functions work constructively with the innovation team. You may find someone who has a solution that will work with your vision.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. The product manager’s role is about the business’s vision for the product, primarily on the market and customer feedback. They organize the visions of the product and map the route to be taken to meet customer requests. Do You Need Both?

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

Is there growth potential which supports the company’s vision and provides a sense of ownership and empowerment? Product vision and strategy: The vision describes the desired future state, and the strategy provides what the product hopes to accomplish and how it plans to move towards the vision. [I

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

Smaller, younger firms are by nature more agile, and it’s easier to get change buy-in. Define and articulate a vision. I do this to create the best chances for a successful interaction by acknowledging their feelings and speaking to them constructively. But small teams also have less to lose.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2018

You will need to share your vision and inspire supporters. projects, oftentimes we work with small teams which have to function well in an agile and fast environments. That being said, a honed charisma helps you to communicate your vision and inspire people to join you. Hopefully, you can benefit from them as well. Ferrazzi, T.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

The following is a framework that I use (loosely based on the Scaled Agile Framework ) to help navigate the strategy maze and to stay focused on influencing the appropriate stakeholders. Each of these decisions should be relatively contained and be able to be made by the agile team without any external dependencies.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

A lack of rigor in how we construct experiments creates many measurement problems. I saw this a lot in the agile community: we use a tool to track our user stories, tasks, and so forth, but its shape and structure winds up driving our process decisions when we ought to come up with our processes and then configure our tools to work that way.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

Product Managers must bring the Product Vision to life, they have to wrangle multiple product requests with aplomb, steer the success of the Product through the efforts of others and much, much more. bring the appropriate people together in constructive ways with good information”. These activities are leadership activities.

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