Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And only you know which collaborations matter more right now.

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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. Staffing : Help find people who have the right skills and are motivated to work on the product and who can fill the roles. The same is true for setting product goals.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 7, 2023

Want to get better at writing Agile user stories? Maybe you’re a Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a member of a product team. They’re a way to focus on the customer’s needs, foster communication within your team, and deliver a product that solves the problem. What are Agile User Stories?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. 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.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The problems in this question might not be problems at all, if the team is autonomous, has a product goal that could supersede a sprint goal, and collaborates to create mastery for everyone. Instead, I see assumptions that reveal a divide-and-conquer, and possibly a command-and-control culture, not an agile culture.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The framework uses its own product owner role, which is different from the one in Scrum.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1 , I started responding to Tom's interview question. Here's the question again: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. I'll return to that later.)

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Consequently, a product manager and a Scrum product owner are leaders, too. They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Free: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded and the newly introduced Product Goal as all of them are linked to one of the three Scrum artifacts as commitments.) For the Sprint Backlog it is the Sprint Goal. •

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend the team end an iteration in the middle of a week. 30 mins) 3:45 pm: How does this sprint support the overarching product goal? (Or Or otherwise create a sprint goal.) (20 If you don't have a product owner, you're not doing Scrum. That day needs an agenda.

Leadership 89

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The framework uses its own product owner role, which is different from the one in Scrum.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 28, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Join more than 150 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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Product Owner Theses A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The Product Owner is also the most vulnerable Scrum role. as in being the guardian of the Product Backlog?—?, Source: Scrum Guide 2020.)

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Agile teams use story points to express velocity and burndown charts to track it. What does velocity mean in product management? It is a well-known instrument used in Agile delivery frameworks like Scrum. What are agile epics? In agile, epics are large chunks of work that a team can’t complete in a single sprint.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I view the roadmap as a product plan that describes how you intend to implement the strategy and which specific benefits or outcomes the product should provide over the next, say, 12 months, based on the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy. I call these outcomes product goals.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How dare you: Agile is a mindset, not a methodology. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. Ask: Did we meet the Sprint Goal, and are we still on track to meet the product goal with the upcoming Sprint?) A Sprint Planning checklist? It is a journey, not a destination.

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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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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. An impact map is a visual representation of the connections between the goals you want to achieve, the customers, and solutions.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

32:20 | Are there any frameworks/tools to help me manage multiple products? 40:42 | What are good examples of teams who have effectively scaled their product organisations with multiple levels of product managers and multiple agile teams? Using The Kano Model To Prioritize Product Development (blog). Question 1 .

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I consider remarkable: No more roles : “The Scrum Team consists of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers. It is a cohesive unit of professionals focused on one objective at a time, the Product Goal.” I have never encountered a Scrum Team lacking an overarching goal, but probably that is a welcome clarification.)

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

This means making tiny but meaningful changes to product features, usability, UI, and design. Agile Methodology While agile practices aren’t new to product management, they still play a major role. A Director of Product who understands agile methodology is better able to implement an agile approach.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Product Roadmap Based on the Product Strategy, a quarterly and an annual product roadmap is made for the company by the PM. A product roadmap gives a broad overview of all aspects of an upcoming product: goals, timeline, features, resources, etc. Steps in Product Design and Development: a.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Here are three meetings with sample input data: Product strategy workshop : product performance data ( KPIs ), competitive analysis, market trends, development progress, for example, in the form of a release burndown chart , and user feedback on recent product increments. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

You should also investigate why you find it hard to let go and trust the team to do a good job: Are you anxious to meet an ambitious product goal? Do you doubt the team’s ability to meet the sprint goal? In the book Agile Project Management with Scrum , the meeting is changed to allow product owners to contribute (see pp.

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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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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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CardBoard

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s a tool for prioritizing work, tracking progress, and facilitating meaningful discussions about the product. In the world of Agile, it’s a key player in managing the product backlog effectively. The concept of user story mapping was popularized by Jeff Patton, a leading figure in Agile product management.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Product Management profession itself is still relatively new. With no university degree course or global certification standards, most practitioners step into being a PM from areas like Engineering & Agile Operations. Even the little wins can give everyone a morale boost as they make progress towards your bigger product goals.

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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. It also helps them to avoid falling into the build trap and building bloated products with a diluted value proposition. Product vision.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

In the MoAR method, teams consider how well a feature helps achieve a product goal and the resources it requires. To decide which prioritization framework is right for you, consider important factors, like the product management stage and the time available to create the feature. Pros and Cons Quick, easy, and intuitive.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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