The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Filed under “whiny excuses from product management for missing delivery dates.” So IMHO, calling something an MVP invites chaos. Do early technical trials change our scope or identify missing capabilities?

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

It is an important resource for the product management community. Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. I tend to seek out people who can advise me best in my current circumstances. that are field-specific to product management?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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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. including myself?—?went

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. Bear in mind that product backlog grooming should be a team effort and that you should involve the development team members in the backlog work. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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ProductPlan

JULY 2, 2019

With broad, sometimes ambiguous responsibilities and high expectations, the product manager role is constantly evolving. Product managers are continuously learning new things and need to improve themselves (not just the products they manage) on a daily basis. Lesson 4: Product Managers Are People Managers.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Radical Focus is about a management method called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR method has its roots in HP’s Management by Objectives (MBO) which seeks to achieve alignment through a cascading set of objectives through the enterprise. OKRs are the centerpiece of a conversation between leaders and teams and within teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

” Two spheres of capabilities are needed for product managers to be successful. One is competency in the processes, practices, and tools of product management. That is where I spend much of my time helping product managers and teams. My passion is inspiring and equipping product managers and leaders.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Development Teams are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work.” Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile ). ?? Team leads?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Speak to a Learning Advisor.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. The Personality Test. The Personality Test.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie. You won’t find these two sentences in any books on product management: “It was 6:45am. .” Your role as product manager is to see the forest, not the trees.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

42 rules to live by for product managers. Great insights and product principles for being a great product manager and making better products. 42 Rules of Product Management edited by Brian Lawley. Each encapsulates a key principle of effective product management. Being a great product manager.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Operations are in perpetual motion, managing every activity of the daily business. Others were consultative, or they advised about technical needs. Often, people can get caught up in the whirlwind of day-to-day management. But where do those actions derive their source of power? CS Ops Leadership.

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Modus Create

MAY 11, 2020

Actually, this is the day-to-day job of product, design and agile practitioners all over the world. Think of all that lingo we hear and speak in business meetings, like agile, digital transformation, leverage, etc. Is it the end? Definitely not. and the associated outcome, if any. Second, Ego Sanitization.

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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

It’s been over a year since the product management team went on a series of agile/scrum training courses. Product Management Prior to Scrum Before agile working practices where adopted the Product Managers role consisted of a lot of short term tactical wins coupled with continual fire fighting.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. For product management and UI/UX related skills, I have personally found LinkedIn Learning and Udemy to be helpful. Hemanth is currently a PM at Motorola. Interview preparation.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

We are aware that many companies choose their path and manage the challenges themselves. As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. That’s one approach to problem-solving. Sketching your ideas. Mindmapping.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. For some reason, when the average product manager thinks about setting up a product tour, they imagine a top-down, linear experience where each customer is shown the same product features in exactly the same way. Here are our top 4 tips for building great product tours: 1.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

None of her employment at that time was about product management. ” Amy also believes that with each job, she moved closer to software and began thinking about product management. I once had a manager who told me that I should just get a job somewhere else. working on radar systems. “I liked synthesizing concepts.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Yes Walk Away With: In-depth knowledge of JavaScript as well as agile methodology general development problem-solving. Plan for a 2-4 month application process - you'll take an 80-hour pre-course even after passing a technical interview. Beginners are advised to take Hack Reactors pre-bootcamp prep courses before applying.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Obviously, Agile should not be introduced with a ‘big-bang’ approach.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Our SaaS customers that use walkthroughs have managed to achieve: Higher activation rate. I hear you. Get a demo today!

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. I started as a product manager and ended up as the VP of product. Then, being the head of the department, I was responsible for managing multiple teams.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Whether you’re communicating via email, voicemail, chat, or conference call, Rose Eliff, Senior Technical Writer at Custom Business Solutions , reminds us employ the four 4 Cs: Clear – Avoid ambiguity. Be kind and supportive of your team,” Seddon advises. The agile guide to winning at team development. By Patricia Omoqui.

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