Product Culture

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There are numerous ways to come up with a product vision. Hopes and Fears is a simple exercise where each individual writes their hopes for the product’s future on one color of Post-it note or index card and then writes their fears on another color. Other ways to reach a vision? Tell me a story. Interested?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. The Product Owner should be the #1 person to go-to for the team if any vision or strategy questions come up. is a continuous exercise. That should be a continuous exercise. How do you learn about new ideas and requirements?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. The tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. What is impact mapping in agile?

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Radical Product Thinking is a clarion call for vision-driven product development over the iterative approach that has, for many, become the orthodox approach to product strategy and management. For Radhika, vision-driven product development embodies the power of long term thinking over short term. The problem with iterative approaches.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. While some of this rapid recalibration is healthy—and might be heavily influenced by the Agile onion impact on planning —executive teams, board members, and investors take little comfort in a zig-zagging product plan. Achieving great things takes planning.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. This depends on what delivery framework you use, Agile or Waterfall or Mixed.) There are many ways to scope out product features but a common practice agile teams use to break down work is Feature Mapping.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn. High performing agile teams can move a story through design, development and implementation with awesome velocity, tool and process discipline. What is planned and shipped feels opaque and out of synch to the less agile parts of the organization.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Best practices are fascinating thought exercises, but if they don’t affect change, that is all they are. Avoid agile-fall. The company gets to be better at making changes because the changes tie to a realistic vision. If they don’t see you as credible, your value decreases. Digital Transformation Blues.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

We’re “agile” (mostly). We narrowed our focus to just nailing down our product vision statement. We focused on a North Star metric that is reflective of our vision. Throughout the discussions we utilized “silent brainstorming” and “note and vote” exercises to avoid the pitfalls of the first meeting.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product. Compatible with agile methods for development. Let’s shed some light on this.

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Radical Product

MAY 23, 2018

It was an interactive session where we presented elements of Radical Product thinking and interleaved it with exercises so each person could develop a measurement strategy for their product/ organization, that was grounded in their vision and strategy. A vision-driven approach and a fast feedback-driven execution are complementary.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2020

Here are a few thoughts for how product managers – especially those in an agile development environment – can embrace uncertainty and live with the inevitable discomfort. There’s an expectation of product managers to spell out the vision for our products and what the product looks like one or two years down the road.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. 566 global ratings.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

Weak Development Team 78

Weak Development Team Vision Customer Experience Agile 78

Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. Your roadmap needs to tell a story of how you’re going to reach your product vision. But the training was intense! Managing up.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

In order to do this, you need teams who are familiar with methods like “agile “ , which facilitate collaborative teams and a quickfire approach to problem-solving. This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up. Day 4 is where you put in all the work.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 24, 2020

In the design phase in SDLC, you need to be as visual as possible about your vision. In the software development life cycle agile models, testing can happen more frequently. The software testing life cycle is not a resource intensive exercise, but your goal should always be to minimize your bugs caught. Agile Model.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Our vision. Throughout the creative process, there were plenty of thoughtful team discussions and healthy disagreements about what brand changes would best reflect our forward-thinking vision for the future of insights. Yesterday, we launched a fresh new logo and brand identity across our platform, website, and social media presence.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Our vision. Throughout the creative process, there were plenty of thoughtful team discussions and healthy disagreements about what brand changes would best reflect our forward-thinking vision for the future of insights. Yesterday, we launched a fresh new logo and brand identity across our platform, website, and social media presence.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning improves the alignment of teams and internal stakeholders with the product vision. Aligns your team behind the product vision. Product planning aligns them with the product vision. Product planning aligns teams with product vision. Speaking of Theresa Torres, this stage is not a one-off exercise.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Yes, they sell exercise equipment, but what they really sell is an experience. And they control every touchpoint of the consumer journey, from the purchase, to the exercise classes done with that bike. Imagine being a traditional exercise equipment manufacturer and competing with that. Speed and agility.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: No comments.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: No comments.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For today’s post, we sat down with Chris Hockley , an agile delivery manager and lean agile coach at SuperAwesome. Chris would start with one of the product KPIs that a team was actively looking to improve and set it as the outcome for the exercise. Did you miss the first post in this series? Business risk.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project. Modus Kickstart was created to achieve that alignment.”

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision. For example, you need to communicate your strategy and vision widely and cultivate an environment of transparency regarding business goals and direction. Vision and strategy should also directly inform your objectives.

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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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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In our upcoming 2020 Product Management Report, we found that they’re relying on a handful of options depending on the scale and scope of the exercise and which stakeholders are included. With agile, the prioritization and roadmapping process may have changed, but the roadmap is still necessary in an agile world.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user. If you don´t have this in mind, you might end up doing things just because people asked for it, not because it is alligned to your product´s vision.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. In an Agile, fast-moving and competitive environment, what you are frequently not able to achieve with output-focused product planning, however, are desired user and business results.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

” I said, “Ironically enough, Exercise Science is a major, so I can,” so that’s where I chose my major. So if we can make it feel a little bit better and add a little bit more vision for what the potential could be, it helps it move along a lot better. While in college, I started my first business.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2018

They all have their own agenda’s and pet peeves e.g. engineers want to build things the right way without tech debt even if that takes longer, some designers are hesitant to put a stake in the ground without a bunch of research and testing, data scientists don’t like agile etc etc. these are total hypotheticals and gross generalizations?—?but

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