The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product managers who work at startups have their work cut out for them. Nowadays, sharpening your startup product manager skills has become more of a priority than they have ever been. Startups need to align with professionals who will minimize their chances of failing once they have launched their products.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product owner plays a central role in agile product development philosophy and scrum for development teams. The product owner (PO) workforce crossed 6,140 and is still on the rise. The product owner has to critically analyze problems and identify possible innovative solutions quickly.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Adaptive Mindset 'Hats' Your Product Manager Wears By DAVID ALLSOPP No matter the product, industry or company size, successful Product Managers must wear various ‘hats’ on any given day to make all the pieces of the puzzle fit together. The Product Management profession itself is still relatively new.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 10, 2020

In this deep dive, Matt LeMay, author of Agile for Everybody and Product Management in Practice, explains what data means to product management and how it should be used to ensure that we’re building products designed to achieve meaningful outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

The Daily Scrum meeting, sometimes also referred to as stand-up meeting, wants to help the development team manage its work. In Scrum, the team collectively agrees to a sprint goal and is responsible for meeting it. Do you doubt the team’s ability to meet the sprint goal? Tip #1: Know what it’s all about.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you looking for crucial technical program management skills to become a successful technical program manager? Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. Well, you’re in the right place.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 28, 2021

Turning the Sprint Review into a Sprint acceptance gate where stakeholders sign off features is unfortunately prominent and defies the idea of self-management. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ??

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Product vs Project Management?—?Batman Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. Product and Project Management?—?two In contrast, a project manager focusses on the how and the when.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. I call these outcomes product goals. With an actionable product roadmap in place, move on and stock your product backlog. Enter the Cycle.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? 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. What is impact mapping in agile?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Product managers, have you ever wondered what user story mapping is? 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.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

In this episode, Tristan and Rosemary discuss product intuition, the art of prioritisation, managing your HiPPOs, and draw from their own experiences and expertise to answer questions from the Mind the Product community. 32:20 | Are there any frameworks/tools to help me manage multiple products? Question 1 .

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Join more than 210 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ??

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). They don't have a specific sprint goal. They do have product goals. And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 28, 2023

You’re a product owner. Agile, Scrum, sprints – these aren’t new terms to you. But fully grasping how sprints can help you build the right product? We’ll delve into sprints, their role in Agile and Scrum, and why they’re a game-changer for you. All sprints are Agile. Things change.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Consequently, the calls for accessibility and inclusion have become louder, and Ken and Jeff managed to answer them compellingly. I consider remarkable: No more roles : “The Scrum Team consists of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers. The Product explanation : “A product is a vehicle to deliver value.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product manager courses are everywhere. Product management is one of the most diverse disciplines and requires an extremely broad set of skills. Additionally, the product manager role drastically changes with your seniority. Beginner product manager. Mid-career product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

What is agile release planning? How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. The next step involves reviewing the backlog to align it with the goals.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Are you using a friction log to track and prioritize what to improve in your product? In this guide, our aim is to help savvy product managers understand what friction logs are, where you might use them, and how to create them. Product friction describes anything that causes your users difficulty. Let’s dive in!

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

A feature prioritization matrix is a product management tool that helps teams decide what features to develop next. The criteria usually revolve around feature importance, like its business or customer value , the resources required to build them, like cost or time, and how much they reflect the organization’s values and goals.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Even if UX work seems fine at your organization, know that there are still some things to set a budget for, like improving the product’s creation process, or your customers’ and users’ experiences. Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals? It also helps in saving on directionless development costs.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Acquiring a consensus on product direction remains the number one challenge for product professionals, according to ProductPlan’s 2021 State of Product Management Annual Report. The art of product leader communication relies on the concept of responsibility without authority. You could use a command approach: (1.)

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. They can also help product managers secure key stakeholder buy-in. Effort or Opportunity scoring. Buy a feature template from Miro.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Chapter 14/17: How to Prioritize Product Features ? Managing Product Backlog ] [ Next : Chapter 15 -Managing Product Development ] [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Your Product Backlog list seems endless as the contribution comes from so many different sources?—?internal Won’t have?—?

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Interested in having me speak or attend an event?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. All self-managing teams I have worked with greatly benefited from an experienced coach.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A colleague, Tom, told me about this question he received in an interview: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. Let me start with the idea of a sprint goal.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Done right, product tours can become a pivotal part of any user onboarding process. Increase activation rate If there’s a metric you should care about as a product manager, it’s activation. It’ll help you understand whether customers are getting value from your product. Get the demo now.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Moreover, they must maintain a consistent overall business strategy and set goals. 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.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consider These Product “Owner” Teams Effective product owners need to collaborate with several kinds of teams: They work with “their” feature/product team, to write stories and create good backlogs for the near-term work. However, in a small organization, that someone might be a VP, not a product manager.

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