Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. Agile software teams are cross-functional and interdependent. Many agile software teams have somewhere between four and seven people. Just like software.) Sometimes, once a week.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. Price comparison tools often didn’t work. Pick the best UAT tool for you ?

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Build in-app flows to help users discover features. User empathy.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Breakthrough, disruptive or radical innovation are all more dramatic and often involve challenging the existing business model or introducing completely new technology. Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback. Disruptive innovation is what many SaaS startups aspire to.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. The right data and experimentation tools. Test everything! Cross functional alignment with the rest of the business.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 26, 2021

There are two reactions to receiving customer feedback: “yippie!” or “ouch…” And while we can’t guarantee you 100% positive feedback, we do have some proven strategies and tactics to help you join those 84% of digital companies that prioritized working on customer experience and recorded an increase in revenue.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. What is the Release Management Process Flow?

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Userpilot

MARCH 19, 2024

Thanks to that, the development team can collect user feedback and test the feature before rolling it out to all users. As stakeholders are often involved in the testing process, it also improves collaboration and alignment between teams. The team conducts research to identify opportunities and generates solutions.

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Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

Companion apps have helped users in self-diagnosis, allowing them to seek proactive treatment. Many healthcare organizations also use companion apps to help their users fight addiction. . Why the Ishihara Test? We felt that the century-old test could use a 21st-century makeover — a mobile app. Set Expectations.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Do you need feedback loops so you can: Cancel the project at any time (to manage schedule and cost risks. When you assess your risks and need for feedback, you can decide which approaches might work for this project, for now. Frequent releasing offers us feedback in many ways: Know that we're solving the right problem.

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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. I never had to experience CASE tools in the 90s. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! I'm a huge fan of tools that help me do my job. As an industry, we've tried tons of things.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. That's why there's feedback.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

5-step process The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a powerful tool in product design that helps teams focus on understanding the needs and objectives of their customers rather than just the product itself. Use customer feedback, surveys, and data analysis to determine which jobs are most important and underserved. Jobs to be done template.

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Usersnap

MAY 26, 2020

Collecting customer feedback is the magic that turned our company into a more customer-centric organization. We agilely implemented the feedback for our product and improved the customer journey. and in the past 20 years I was in the B2B industry, always surrounded by web technology. Hello everyone, my name is Klaus-M.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Solution: Describe the unique value proposition that sets your product apart from competitors. For example, “Through an AI-powered ride-sharing platform that optimizes routes for reduced travel time and environmental impact.” The Differentiation: Highlight the unique features or technology that differentiates your product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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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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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A client wants to know how best to calculate their software capitalization. They've started to use agile approaches. There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. Yeah, right.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Especially since teams now had these levers, from the iterative and incremental approaches: Prototype something for fast feedback.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? Userpilot is a growth platform with advanced feedback and analytics functionality. A product team structure is how a business organizes the product team to best support software development. Book the demo to see how it can support your product team structure.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. But it is not the only game in town.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

Creating Feedback Loops. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Generally steering clear of recaps of technical details, a good review will be a collaborative event, eliciting customer and stakeholder feedback. Why is the Review so important?

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Measure for a Purpose.

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eG Innovations

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

DevOps philosophies, practices, and tools increase an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at speed. The increased agility resulting from DevOps adoption enables organizations to better serve customers. In practice, DevOps engineering is an iterative approach to software development, deployment, and maintenance.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Measure for a Purpose.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification However this part of agile development is not practiced as religiously.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

That's brittleness in the system. If you only have one tester, the team collaborates to test when that one tester is busy. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). Shorten Feedback Loops. Next, I suggested that the team find ways to shorten their feedback loops , in Part 2.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2018

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core tenet of the lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries. The primary benefit is getting customer feedback and learning if an idea will work before it “gets too far, ” i.e. before significant resources have been sunk into a product that customers never wanted in the first place.

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Centercode

MARCH 12, 2021

Take Agile, for example. Eighty percent of today’s tech companies have adopted agile practices — so there must be something to it, right? But not everyone practices Agile the same way. Customer testing programs are the same way. Yes, customer testing is a necessary part of releasing high-quality products.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A prototype is a simulation or sample version of a final product or application used for testing before launch. The goal of a prototype is to test and validate products and ideas most inexpensively and eliminate possibilities of failure as early in the process as possible. What is a Prototype?

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

This need is what led me to think about and design the opportunity solution tree. When I finally wrote about the opportunity solution tree (back in 2016), I knew that it was a big enough idea that I would need to write a book about it. I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. That was a start.

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eG Innovations

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Adoption of new techniques, better tools, and improved collaboration methods continue to be on the rise in the DevOps universe. Enterprises today are looking for automation in the area of continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous delivery to facilitate their DevOps adoption. Read on to see our pick of 10 tools.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A deep understanding of the programming languages, APIs, databases, software, and information architecture used to build and run a product isn’t essential to the job in most cases. Agile isn’t particularly technical, but it represents the methodology and processes that most product development organizations now rely on. A/B Testing.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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