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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise. Since it’s not a prescriptive methodology, but a collection of values and principles, people feel lost when it comes to “becoming agile”. That’s when we could claim to be Agile. We all know the driving license analogy.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2024

The definition of product management has been changing and evolving over the past 10 years and I’m not sure it’s for the better. I make it a regular habit to have conversations with product management directors and VPs. It keeps me current on the landscape of the product management profession without any slant or bias to what we do.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging So in the mode of Ben Horowitz’s classic essay Good PM/Bad PM , I’ve captured my thoughts on what I believe makes a good product team vs a bad product team. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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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.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Finding user problems.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit.

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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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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? I said that if the coach wanted to move up the hierarchy in the organization, the coach needed some form of management experience. Focus on business results, not agility per se. What do I do next?” Most cannot.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

Judging by what product managers have told us , my guess is that it sounds familiar to a good chunk of you reading this. Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. Responsibility for defining the roadmap may officially rest with the product team, but there are others in the organization who can directly influence it.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development?

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. Let’s tuck in… What makes for a highly effective Product Manager? ?? the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. More often than not, teams are overly optimistic on the timeline that will be required to complete an activity. You can put unnecessary pressure on your team. You might design your organisation or team poorly.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. Seeing things in practice.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I’ve been pair-writing a book with Mark Kilby , From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. This is both a strength and weakness. It’s a weakness because I might stomp on the other person. We hit a big milestone today: We published the first complete draft today.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments.

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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. The Agile Manifesto. Simplicity is essential.

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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. The Agile Manifesto. This is not agile.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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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.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Centercode

APRIL 16, 2021

One of the greatest traits of agile development is that it allows teams to respond to customer desires quickly. Unlike the avalanche of changes you’d release every so often under Waterfall, this snowball approach of cumulative product evolution over time enables teams to act on what customers want, when they want it.

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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. And I don't want to return to the bad old days—I much prefer where we are now.

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