The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

6:49] How is poor CX costly to an organization? I see too many teams and organizations say, “It would be great for our KPIs if customers clicked this button more.” Often CX resources are small and less available, and product managers have to get special approval to talk to the CX team. Then we need research.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. The Stage-Gate process came from stories of successful entrepreneurs and teams.

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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 No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. Engage the team in a further inspection of the items in question.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

The importance of good user onboarding Given the variety of different fintech apps available, like banking apps, and trading platforms, convincing people to download yours is a challenge. This measure gives you a sign of how successful your onboarding process is convincing people to register once they’ve downloaded your app.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. Agile Leadership Summit. This event may have gotten its start as an ancillary part of the Agile+DevOps Leadership Summit, but for Agile product leaders, this is the main event.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. The Development Team, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders need to figure out whether they are still on track delivering value to customers. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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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. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

You can also download a copy of the SiriusDecisions’ Product Management: Planning Assumptions 2019 to learn more about these trends — plus a “bonus” sixth trend — and learn how to stay ahead of the curve, or listen to a recorded on-demand webcast to hear my colleague Lisa Singer and I discuss these trends in more detail.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. That means you have to download the app or sign up for the product! Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Microsoft Teams had to figure out how to scale and service their product when its application was far greater than they had anticipated. They were agile beyond agile, and for a lot of brands that’s just not part of their DNA. Click here to download the Action Guide. These leaders had to follow the terrain.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To get a sense of where these opportunities may lie, we asked our executive team to share five predictions on trends that will impact businesses in 2021. Meanwhile, more consultants will collaborate with their clients on large-scale open source development projects. Transformational CMOs will own product innovation.

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Izenda

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For many product managers and their teams, technical debt can be a black hole. Throughout product development, it may feel like you take two steps forward and three steps back. Technical debt is a common problem among product teams with no clear-cut solution. How agile teams accumulate technical debt.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful. You get extra points if Agile story format is used!

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

You can also download a copy of the SiriusDecisions’ Product Management: Planning Assumptions 2019 to learn more about these trends — plus a “bonus” sixth trend — and learn how to stay ahead of the curve, or listen to a recorded on-demand webcast to hear my colleague Lisa Singer and I discuss these trends in more detail.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Pros: Great interactions Drag and drops Multiple platforms Master elements Cons: Too complicated for newbies Quite expensive Limited functions in the standard edition Mobile views need to be improved Complex prototypes tend to be slow Price: $29 / user / mo UXpin Many designers and product teams use UXpin. Definitely has to be on this list.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 14, 2016

From this and focus groups, I was able to develop personas for our users and introduce them to our development team. Multi-location and agile gaps. A key part of being a Product Manager is your development team and how you communicate the upcoming work to them. This baffled me at first.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. I’ll be presenting on Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t. deepPRODMGMTthoughts.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. I’ll be presenting on Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t. deepPRODMGMTthoughts.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. Agile product management tip of the day: Don't write user stories that start "As [persona X]" unless you've agreed on and documented "persona X." prodmgmt #agile.

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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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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. Agile product management tip of the day: Don't write user stories that start "As [persona X]" unless you've agreed on and documented "persona X." prodmgmt #agile.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2018

Apptimize helps teams develop better digital products with easy to deploy SDKs and a centralized dashboard for all channels. The first thing mobile teams need to understand without a shadow of a doubt is the differences between a mobile website, a hybrid app, and a native app. You know that it’s not about just having an app.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. When new to a project or team, conduct key stakeholder interviews. This free-to-download bundle contains the following resources: Benchmarking 101 [ebook]. Download the library.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The team comprises one of the most important things in your work: these people surrounding you, and the relationship with them. This article will give some help on how to discuss design with a designer or team, based on the book by Aaron Irizarry and Adam Connor , Discussing Design. BAD design critique is… Selfish.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. Apart from designing impactful digital solutions for our clients, we develop our products at UX studio — UX folio and Copyfolio. Our client portfolio is rich and diverse.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 17, 2021

You can also download a copy of this report as a PDF for easier sharing. 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. Losing some team culture.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement Agile turns into micromanagement as a result of the middle management’s resistance to change. Self-organizing, empowered teams often conflict with the middle management’s drive to execute personal agendas, self-preservation being one of them. be it tech or legacy.

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Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

We’ve put together a synopsis of today’s content so you can get an easy download of what folks were streaming today. They envisioned themselves as a CS Pit Crew for a racing team with the CSM as the driver. Major Takeaways: Companies need to organize and set up teams properly to accomplish growth. The answer?

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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. Scrum Team working independently of other teams is an ideal scenario.

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Radical Product

JUNE 8, 2018

If you hand this vision to the poor product manager who works on reusable rockets, it’s just not that helpful. Using the Toolkit, you can craft the source code to your vision , your RDCL Strategy , Prioritization rubric , Strategic Roadmap and develop a hypothesis driven Execution and Measurement Model.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. Shape Up occupies the same territory, serves the same function, as Those Various Agile Methodologies. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This is way more efficient than relying on your already-busy dev team. You can add interactions so that other team members can see the functionality. You can also use InVision to gather feedback from other team members, and collaborate with them on your designs. Once your design is done, you can hand it over to your dev team.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

So far, this Product Owner interview guide has been downloaded more than 8,000 times. ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner.

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