Agile Velocity

AUGUST 18, 2021

As teams learn how to work in new ways during an Agile transformation, an organization may consider adopting Agile values in departments outside of IT to support the initiative. In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s? In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s?

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. Feature toggles have become increasingly popular among software developers. This is probably due to their ability to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market velocity, and increase reliability. Take notes! Take notes!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. This software development methodology is still in its infancy when it comes to our understanding of which teams should be embracing it and which should be shunning it. Perhaps after twenty-one years it’s time to look back at what exactly spurred this obsession.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. The product manager can take on the role of the product owner in the Scrum framework. Citations: Schwaber, K.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. I had set out to create a software product for roadmapping but soon discovered people don’t have good processes that support roadmapping. He has worked for both small and large companies in the B2B software industry.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

When you have one team learning Agile, another learning Lean, and yet another learning Design Thinking, how are you supposed to get to alignment? Jeff takes us through the basics of the three main frameworks – Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking – and then gives us a set of principles that can help us effectively meld them together.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2023

Agile antipatterns or scrum antipatterns are (poor) practices that are utilized to enhance a process. Nonetheless, they impede your efforts and slow your progress towards attaining Agile objectives, thereby achieving the opposite effect. List of destructive agile antipatterns and how to avoid them 1.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Agile UX is a design methodology based on the principles of Agile software development. Agile is a proven software development approach that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration and efficiency. Agile UX adopts the same values, reframed in the context of digital design projects. What is the Agile UX Process?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. You would interfere with and damage the team’s self-management.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. David Matheson, whose session is titled “Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews.” Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

We’re not designers (except when we are) or engineers (unless we can code) or anything actually, y’know, useful. Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. What is Waterfall?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Signs your organization has missed the point of Agile and it’s become another buzz-word! Treating Agile as just a method not part of a mindset, or culture, is a common contradiction in orgs trying to become Agile organizations. Not grasping the Why of Agile is behind many failures to transform into an Agile organization.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

My product leader coachees and I sometimes do calendar reviews.  We A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps  It’s easy to feel guilty and overwhelmed.  Being a player/coach (i.e.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 11, 2023

First, the assignment of story points is subjective and can vary widely among team members due to differences in experience, perception, and understanding of the work. For Agile team members, this data-driven approach means more accurate sprint commitments, reducing the stress of overcommitting and the disappointment of underdelivering.

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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. Now, we have at least these: Low code environments so people can write their own code. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! As an industry, we've tried tons of things.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2020

TL; DR: Lipstick Agile?—?Happiness Have you noticed how many people in the agile field are unhappy with their work situation? A situation where an organization already struggles doing agile, not to mention ‘becoming agile?’ This is what I call lipstick Agile. They are supposed to write code.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2021

One of the many Agile myths is that it is difficult to manage evolving requirements. However, veterans of the software testing world know that agile development is a superior method to manage the constantly changing needs that many software development projects encounter.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The Nulab team is honored to announce that Software Advice recognized Backlog as a Top Kanban Tool in its 2022 Frontrunners report. Software Advice, a Gartner company, is a leading provider of advisory research for businesses navigating their software-buying journey. Learn more about the methodology here.

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CardBoard

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Balancing requirements, managing deadlines, and aligning stakeholder expectations are just a part of your daily routine. It’s a practical, hands-on framework that’s designed to make your role as a product owner more manageable and more effective. It’s a useful tool for software teams to solve complex problems.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 27, 2023

Introduction In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to enhance their software development and project management processes. What are Agile Methodologies?

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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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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. These are tech debts which arise from actual bad coding practice, bad/not scalable architecture design, incomplete requirements, half baked test, etc. Because every PO faces this dilemma on a regular basis. In short?—?these

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. What are we fighting for?—?is

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Believe it or not, this is also true of software architecture. Engineers love to crank out code. Why Care About Software Architecture? The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

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CardBoard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

scrum #scrumathome #scrummaster #agile #kanban ♬ Vlog BGM_03(953483) – Fujiwo Agile is a mindset. Both Scrum and Kanban are part of the Agile family, but they’re like siblings with different personalities. Scrum is a specific way to do Agile. It’s a way of thinking about how to get work done.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The overall scope of software development is impacting not only the depths of user’s lifestyles but also the growth and success of businesses and enterprises as well. When on one side, users tend to be more dependent on trends and technology-enabled software makes it easier for them to function in their daily lives.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

Product managers are rapidly advancing their skills, and as a result, the industry as a whole has had to level-up to compete as the world’s biggest brands continue to adopt a mobile-first approach. We’ve written a lot—and I mean A LOT—of content focused around mobile product management. What Is Mobile Product Management?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles.

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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. Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification

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