Userpilot

MARCH 19, 2024

Even if you’ve been a product manager for a while, a new feature rollout can be a challenging experience. We explain what a feature rollout is, why it is important for product teams, and how to conduct them. Thanks to that, the development team can collect user feedback and test the feature before rolling it out to all users.

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

Feedback Software 68

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Moderate Need for Product Innovation and Change. When the team can plan—and not need to change its plans—for a couple of weeks at a time, the product has a moderate need for innovation and change. Then, the people who manage the product strategy, the product manager/product value team change what the team does next.

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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. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial. Testsigma 2.

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Once the team completes that highest priority feature(s), the team can release the product. Of course, there are feedback loops here, too: Notice that we expect feedback from later features back to the previous features. When we release, we can regroup and figure out what to do next for this product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. Good product and customer satisfaction come through from a great analysis phase.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Why is incremental innovation important for product managers ? Incremental innovation is a process of gradually modifying a company’s existing products or services through small improvements. Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. How is it different from other kinds of innovation?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2018

You can use Jobs-to-be-Done to learn from your customers and measure a new product idea before building anything. The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core tenet of the lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries. The assumption is the best learning occurs when people use your product. The costs balloon.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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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. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development. There is one silver bullet for product development—the speed of team learning time.

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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. When a long-awaited product or feature finally launches, it often comes well short of the needs. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

Your product mostly works. 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. You can release.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Matt Walton was one of the founders of FutureLearn, where he scaled the product team and organisation from nothing to the significant player in online education that it is today. Along the way, he learned a lot about continuous improvement of both the product and the processes for building it – including the use of [.].

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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. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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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. Here’s how we’re tracking on the balance of the Product Backlog items related to this Feature/Epic/Idea. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews.

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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. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’).

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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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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone. Test everything!

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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? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! They lead a team that consists of developers and designers.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. This spans planning, development, testing, approval, deployment, release, and post-implementation support. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

The product game has certainly changed over the last few years. Product Design has taken off in a way that no one could have predicted. They don’t just want to use your product, they want to love it. So what does this mean for Product Managers? And then you need to rethink your Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages. The feedback loop process is.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams. Ask for help.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Although there’s plenty of debate on this topic, product managers don’t need to be technical. 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. 5 Technical Concepts for the Non-Technical Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In the business world, “vaporous” is an insightful description of the Toyota Production System. Eric, when he was raising money for his own startup, ran into investor Steve Blank who made Eric take his course on rapid-cycle product development as a pre-condition for Steve investing. Don’t wait for more perfect products.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

They've started to use agile approaches. Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops.

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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 Warrior

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Have you ever heard a product manager say their role is a breeze and they have so much free time? Most product managers are busy with schedules packed full of meetings. So what is the difference between a team with a high growth product and one creating low value for the organisation - it’s not how hard they work.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Michael Sippey, VP of Product at Medium, shares some insights on how to think big and create clarity and focus for product management teams to unleash their full potential. It means the engineers, designers, marketing and executives are equally confused about their product.

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ProductPlan

MAY 31, 2023

Project-centric to product-centric. First, are you finding your business is more concerned with hitting project deadlines than actually creating great products that people love? But just because everyone’s busy doesn’t mean they’re being truly productive. What does this journey look like for an organization?

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Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

So, the team kickstarted the project to develop a mobile application from scratch — from product strategy and CX to end-to-end development and release, all in six weeks. Why the Ishihara Test? We felt that the century-old test could use a 21st-century makeover — a mobile app. Product Strategy and Design. Set a Goal.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There’s going to be a lot of designers, marketers, and product managers reading this and thinking to themselves, ‘what the hell is he talking about?’, an agile and/or digital transformation). They are still part of our code base and need to go through the same testing cycles as those that do add value. It’s a recurring theme.

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