Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When it comes to Sprint Planning in the Scrum framework, precision and predictability are paramount. Monte Carlo Simulations: A Closer Look Originally rooted in complex mathematical models and named after the renowned Monte Carlo Casino, this method employs random sampling and statistical modeling to predict outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

As its name suggests, a product owner in Scrum is in charge of a product. Note that the choice of the name is intentional. But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”. Scrum Product Owner. SAFe Product Owner.

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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

In Scrum—the framework that gave birth to the product owner—the role is responsible for maximising the value a product creates for the users and for the business. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. This has created more confusion and increased the misconceptions of the role.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. The product manager is the one who takes the decision on which framework to use. Like everything else in the world of agile methodology , we need to be agile while choosing our frameworks. Product Strategy Frameworks.

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airfocus

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A key piece of every agile software development framework is the notion of a cross functional team that has all the skills necessary to deliver value on a regular basis. These teams go by a variety of names, whether it’s a scrum team in the Scrum framework or an agile team in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. My experience is that when people use frameworks for larger efforts, they experience these unexpected side effects: The framework actions often require more manager-type people to control the actions of others.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification On the flip side, many development teams are now fully immersed in “Agile world” that is all about delivering small increments of working code according to strict rituals. Specification

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. With Dual-Track Agile, the development team participates in the discovery track – often led by the lead engineer, the UX designer, and the product manager.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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Modus Create

MAY 20, 2020

In the ’60s, his first attempt at creating a supercomputer failed with huge financial losses – but undeterred, Watson went on to make IBM a household name. 1 – Agility (not Agile). Agility is the way of being agile. Also agile is a common noun, not a proper noun. Why is success made of little failures?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

It’s a change in approach that’s driven by demands for more agility and greater velocity from the time a problem is identified to the time that a product is released. . Figure 1: FRAMEWORK OF METHODS TO CAPTURE AND DEFINE PRODUCT FEATURES. Figure 2: FRAMEWORK OF VARIOUS METHODS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH OPTION.

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Amir Rozenberg

APRIL 12, 2018

.” Just like Rihanna, you might think there are too many frameworks to learn in the testing arena! Now there is a new cross-browser test framework gaining adoption in the community: Gauge , a framework sponsored by ThoughtWorks. So why is a market for another framework? How does Perfecto work with Gauge?

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Back when I was gearing up to write "Escaping the Build Trap," I bumped into a publisher who was keen on me penning a book about Agile UX. Back in the day, if you were a consultant or speaker and wanted to get noticed, you needed a book with a publisher's name on it. Laying out the framework was a breeze. That was back in 2016.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

In Scrum—the framework that gave birth to the product owner—the role is responsible for maximising the value a product creates for the users and for the business. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. This has created more confusion and increased the misconceptions of the role.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 9, 2019

My name is Erik Cottrell, and I’m with Agile Velocity. What we intended to do with this panel was to give folks a glimpse into what it’s like for leaders who are on an agility journey. My name is Nicole Tanzillo. My name is Amy Green-Hinojosa I work at Texas Mutual Insurance Company.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. It was all the same work I had been doing before, but now it had a different name. I liked this name. That was until I had my first experience teaching Product Management at a company using the SAFe framework.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Job Titles The two common names with the different side effects they have: The Product Manager often is not only a manager.

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Modus Create

MARCH 6, 2020

For those concerned with vendor-lock, Serverless Framework may be a good choice. Honestly, however, vendor-lock is far less a problem than the cost of not pursuing a cloud-based agile digital transformation strategy. Serverless is Agile by design – perfect for Lean product development. Both are open source.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. Once we had a couple dozen big names, it was easy to convince the laggards. Let’s go Agile! Agile is sometimes seen as a panacea to all product development problems.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Hands-on Agile #30: Making Your Scrum Work?—?The just to name a few. Think of “MVP.”)

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions. Why should product managers use a prioritization framework? And what to do after prioritizing features.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Agile Boards It’s common for teams to use agile boards with columns like TO DO, IN PROGRESS, TESTING, READY FOR TESTING, DESIGN, DONE, DEPLOYED, etc. Name each sync differently to reflect its unique objective. However, this is a very small step towards true collaborative synergy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As companies scale their agile product development practices they can struggle with the complexity of managing multiple interdependent products, teams & components. Clearly define ‘what’ products exist in your portfolio & assign each an owner, agnostic of agile teams. Put in place lightweight cross team collaborations.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. 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. Name Image Description. Who the product is for (the market).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

TL; DR: 11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. is a critical success factor to step up the transformation game: You want to become agile, not “do agile.”

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

As the name suggests, the PM quadrants are four sections, depicted on a 2x2 graph. Additionally, the product owner must have: A deep understanding of agile methodologies in practice. In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. the post-it note.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2020

I meet a lot of product people – product managers, product owners, agile coaches, scrum masters, business analysts, project managers – and I’ve learned that there are a couple of constants, whatever the title or role. Mind the Product has launched a new training workshop for product leaders on mapping.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Probably, because the organization is reserving the job to “agile coaches?”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Download ’71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Hiring Agile Imposters’ 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Scrum is not a methodology but a framework. The Product Owner is the least well-defined accountability within the Scrum framework and?—?at Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To this day, CAT tools remain an ideal option for long-term projects that require a custom setup, but they are still too ponderous and inflexible for Agile projects. But CAT tools are very cumbersome and are not at all adaptable for Agile projects. But compatibility with Agile methodology is just one advantage of LMS systems.

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Agile Velocity

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your organization is planning an Agile transformation, you may be asking, or be expected to answer, the question of whether to take a centralized or decentralized approach. In sharing this topic with my Agile Velocity colleagues, who all have experience in this area, a more nuanced conversation emerged. . Where to begin .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

We recommend you use the Agile software development methodology for this. The architect can choose from several popular architecture patterns, e.g.: MVC (Model-View-Controller): This architecture pattern involves three components, namely, model, view, and controller. Agile project teams need to focus on value to clients.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” What is Sustainable Pace? But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product.

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