PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

A product manager that I hire needs to always keep in the mind the product vision and key success factors, and emphasize them through all of the discussions with company teams that seek to limit their own team's effort, expenditure, or risk, and will blindly limit the product's potential. Product vision statement 5. Product Vision 4.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2018

What problems arise in agile teams and how to measure them? Product Agility As our product scales, team size grows and we adopt more processes and infrastructures, the complexities to which they adhere to become immense. The “Happiness” stat from our last Agile Health Assessment was 97% . More on this story later….Stay

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2019

But in the context of planning, agile software development practitioners are wise to take Eisenhower’s words to heart. “In Eisenhower Why agile teams need a product roadmap There are many discussions out there on both the importance of, and lack of importance of agile product roadmaps. Instead, we consider the idea of planning.”

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 8, 2019

In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. From there, we’ll walk you through the agile roadmapping process step by step. Eisenhower.

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Actuation Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Today we will look at two of the most important: the Product Vision and Product Strategy documents. Each of these elements fulfills a distinct function, but are often presented together. Defining a Product Vision Document. The Product Vision document looks into the future. Advancing the Profession of Product Management.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 8, 2018

Why Organizational Agility is Necessary. U ncertain – Unclear about the present and hard to predict the future. Organizational agility allows you to respond quickly to this unpredictable world. What is Organizational Agility? Benefits of Organizational Agility. Focus and clarity. Innovation. Happy customers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. From Product Vision to User Stories to Roadmap Tools In my experience, product roadmaps work best as an extension to the Product Backlog. Before you try to come up with a product roadmap, fix the vision problem first. Agile Experiments ??

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. As the person in charge of the product, you should lead the discovery and development effort.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Learn Agile. Convey product vision & goals. Agile training. Meet Daily.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. When each product initiative advances, the product vision is easy for everyone to be on board. Storylines help underpin the product’s vision and mission.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

Aside from generating revenue, it’s also important to check if the solution aligns with the business’s direction, vision, and values. These processes with IMPACT can help you articulate what’s meaningful to business: Vision & Mission—Although it’s often handed down from senior management, it still influences your work.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. Stay present. Use this decision rule for high impact decisions like setting a product vision and coming up with a brand-new or significantly changed product strategy. I therefore recommend using a dedicated, skilled facilitator. 8 Choose a Decision Rule.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

The first is to set the strategic vision and continual alignment of the product with the rest of the organization. In Agile that person is called the product manager. When I worked at Pivotal Labs, an Agile shop, we referred to our client sponsor as the product owner. In Scrum that person is called the product owner.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When you present a plan for digital transformation or some other company-wide change, many people’s first instinct will be to feel threatened or worried. Transforming your product development process from waterfall to agile. Present the potential benefits to your stakeholders. I’ve outlined them below.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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. The tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. What is impact mapping in agile?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. Agile methodology has matured a lot in the technology development phase? Dual-Track Agile, by Jeff Patton.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

This means that there are specific discussions that we must lead and participate in because they significantly impact our products and the vision we want to set. Therefore, we must attend and be a participant in agile retrospective discussions. In addition, we can find out if the customer is already assessing our competitors.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. Teams meet frequently and communicate, and the vision and work are visualized using Scrum. The Market Requirements Event involves customer-facing people like sales and marketing, and it’s led by product management with developers and engineers present.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Product-Led Transformation re-focuses the company on the fundamentals of real value creation while embracing the benefits of the faster engines that Digital and Agile practices deliver. We need to apply positive pressure and that according to Kotter, requires CEOs to communicate the vision by a factor of ten. 2 – Tactics. 3 – Timeline.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The “agile onion” and the layers that you as a product leader should be in. Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. As a product leader, you may be involved in defining the purpose of your company, or be responsible for the vision for the product, or it may even be something that is already set. What is your role?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

Product Owners are the ones creating the tasks, stories, managing scrum/agile, doing the daily standups…etc, while PMs are spending their time with the initial research, user interviews, collecting user feedback and data. Craft a long-term vision and strategy for the product. Product Manager.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Even if you are thoughtful with your written pieces and presentations, you miss out. Avoid agile-fall. The company gets to be better at making changes because the changes tie to a realistic vision. For example, when shifting from waterfall to agile, go to each team and understand what waterfall did for them.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Alignment with product/business goals Using a feature prioritization matrix helps the team stay true to the product vision and strategy. Product vision. What’s more, not all feature requests will be in line with the product vision. This often translates into higher feature adoption and customer retention. Feature request.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 23, 2023

This speaker presented on the topic Get into the Discovery Zone. With Lean and Agile methods, it is too easy for teams to fall into the trap of pursuing speed and a sense of progress, while failing to provide value on the most important aspects that customers need. They had developed a vision of an ATM photo machine.

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UX Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

The Hidden Costs of Design Ops For In-House Design Teams Building an in-house design team presents a unique set of challenges, many of which revolve around the efficient operation of Design Ops. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, agility and efficiency are key to staying ahead.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Mixing the words, key responsibilities across companies started to emerge: Define product vision and strategy. Mechanisms would be our processes used to translate the company vision into product strategy, prioritize and set each clan’s backlog and to get it done sprint by sprint. Responsibilities and skills word clouds.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

While many companies adopt agile and product discovery techniques to better understand their customers faster, it still takes too much time and effort to identify suitable solutions that solve real user problems and also help the business. Vision and mission presentation at XING’s yearly kick-off event.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. Compatible with agile methods for development. Let’s shed some light on this.

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All About Product Management

JULY 25, 2010

I was asked to present, at an interview, on how I see the role of the product manager working in an agile scrum environment. However since the interview/presentation and starting in the new role the company has decided to change direction and combine waterfall with scrum.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2020

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash There are many parts of Agile that are attractive because of how they bring out more creative ways of working. Visual boards allow a shared vision A critical failing of disagreements is to pose one person’s viewpoint against another. This is because of three key reasons.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2020

We don’t behave logically when presented with the same choice framed in different ways. Here are a few thoughts for how product managers – especially those in an agile development environment – can embrace uncertainty and live with the inevitable discomfort. Focus on the big picture vision in broad terms.

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All About Product Management

MARCH 1, 2009

There are many good product management frameworks available - however, I thought I would create an agile product management framework that is broad enough to be applicable to any product management groups that is practising agile/scrum. Research and come up with ideas and present to stakeholders and arrange a brain storming sessions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

If you have read my article “There is no business like flow business” you know I am all up for a rewrite challenge, so with no further ado I am proud (and at the same time worried it will not make any sense nor resonate with you all) to present the Product Management Alphabet Aerobics.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ulrike Laubner-Kelleher is a sought-after mentor, educator, and presenter on the topics of product management, innovation and teams efficiency. They’re very frustrated because they put in a lot of work and present their concept, but if it doesn’t follow the direction of the company’s strategy, they can’t execute it.

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