Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. No one sees the big picture. See the Lifecycle series.)

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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. Just think about any personal transformation.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product. What is Sustainable Pace?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

Is your team Agile or Fragile? designed using: canva.com With the massive increase in the number of products launched in the past decade, a lot of organizations have adopted the AGILE approach as a system of managing their processes. HIPPO is an acronym for ‘Highest-Paid Person’s Opinion’. Are you ready?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What are its business goals? What business model will it use in order to achieve the business goals, including revenue sources, cost factors, and channels? As the person in charge of the product, you should lead the discovery and development effort. What makes the product stand out? How will it differ from competing offerings?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. Analyzing user experience One area where product analytics can help you massively is analyzing user experience, which is a big part of the job. Soft product management skills Soft skills are more subjective and linked to your personality.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

These are user stories at their most basic level, and if you’re going to master agile product development and become a truly great PM, you need to know how to write actionable stories that have maximum impact, why they’re so important, and when to implement them. Learning About Agile? What Are User Stories? Define ‘done.’ That’s great!

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Building products for big corporates, small startups and scale-ups. What I have seen, is that both startups and big corporates have issues in understanding how to be more product-led without the right mindset and framework. Design, UX, Agile Have Already Done the Hard Work. I have worked with in product for most of my career.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

Despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Like the technology we use to build the products we love ages and gets left behind, Agile has died while we were perfecting our standup. Because behind those big companies are the things that matter most; the people.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

The goal of digital transformation is to use technology to create a better experience for customers, optimize operational efficiencies, unlock new business opportunities, and achieve higher levels of organizational performance. It can involve anything from streamlining workflows to increasing automation or integrating new technologies.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed. Agile Transformation Requires Management Collaboration.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

While the fundamentals of product management remain the same, there are a few key differences between the goals of general product managers and mobile product managers, especially when it comes to prioritizing projects and delivering new ideas for product improvement. What Is Mobile Product Management? So how do you get beta testing right?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results. What’s Our Goal for Delegation? Let’s unpack….

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2020

whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach?—?because including Scrum Masters and agile coaches?—?in Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. Lip-service is cheap, and walking the ‘agile talk’ may put the incumbents out of well-paying jobs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

They also help PMs ensure that the new features are aligned with product and business goals. To create a prioritization matrix, define criteria that are in line with your goals and create a grid or table around them. Not recognizing your personal bias is another mistake. Customer requests aren’t enough to make product decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. This image shows a 6-person team where the leader/manager micromanages. All decisions go through that person in the middle. People don't affiliate as a team—they affiliate with just one person, the leader. Worse, it's not just Project A.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I studied computer science down in Southern Germany and then I started in a big German publishing house doing mainly concept work—it was called project management at that time. It was an 80-person startup back then.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Their goals are always stated in terms of delivering products and features (output), and never in terms of expected business and customer outcomes. Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. That’s a big question, and many roads lead to this outcome. I believe in focusing on outcomes to power-up aligning your product strategy with business goals onto a roadmap.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

It was a big challenge for me once. You can find dire outcomes, you can create vertical takeoffs, and you can talk about the bad personal outcomes if the situation is not fixed. It’s used the time in big Hollywood blockbusters.). They asked me to help them with their agile demo because I am an agile expert.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to Agile and Scrum best practices, product owners and product managers should be two different people. As many have written before, the two jobs have notably different goals and areas of focus. There’s an entire school of thought that firmly believes the same person should always do both of these jobs.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

Think about times you’ve had to make tough choices in order to build a better product for your users, or talk about the methods you’ve used (they could be agile user-first frameworks like story mapping) or how you embed the voice of the customer into development. Which person would you hire? So choose your scenario carefully!

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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. Solving big problems for customers creates big value for businesses Melissa Perri.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

It was a big challenge for me once. You can find dire outcomes, you can create vertical takeoffs, and you can talk about the bad personal outcomes if the situation is not fixed. It’s used the time in big Hollywood blockbusters.). They asked me to help them with their agile demo because I am an agile expert.

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Nulab

JUNE 22, 2022

The goal of incremental innovation is to make a good product even better. Because small changes can often have a big impact on customer satisfaction. Incremental innovation is for all businesses, big and small. They’re not agile. Some companies are not agile enough to implement incremental innovation.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. This helps to ensure each person knows their role and goals so that everyone shares the same desire for product success. This article provides you with various core skills beneficial to your search.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

It is especially hard for big banks to adjust to the digital age, because their processes have been built over many years and have been almost permanently etched into their operations. In fact, nowadays banks can outsource almost any task unrelated to backend development, which is only preserved in banks’ control to protect personal data?—?no

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Like many teams I measured my productivity by output (number of tasks completed) rather than by outcomes (goals accomplished, impact achieved). Like some Agile dev systems, my productivity system was steering me to focus on the here-and-now, and was ill-equipped to help me achieve long-term goals. Goals, Ideas, Steps and Tasks.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

How are those 2019 goals and resolutions coming along? According to the US News and World Report, 80% of New Year resolutions fail by February – so if you’re like the majority of us, those well-intentioned, heartfelt goals you set a few weeks ago have become faint memories by now. Not all Goals are Created Equal.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. Personal goals – this is another one that’s easy to say, and powerful, but hard to do in reality. What they actually care about is achieving personal goals.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Your goal is to leapfrog them, and that means you have to do a better job of fixing their customers’ problems than they are.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  Once-a-year planning lives at the intersection of “we can accurately predict the future in spite of all evidence” and “we’re an agile organization, so we can adapt to daily changes in our market even though we committed a detailed plan to the Board.” Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

The Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) is a tool for visualizing the interdependencies between business goals , user pain points , and features. In the MoAR method, teams consider how well a feature helps achieve a product goal and the resources it requires. More suitable for scoping waterfall projects than agile product development.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 23, 2017

Our teams were already experienced in Agile development and were working in two week sprints, with a regression test and proposed release at the end of each sprint, but the business stakeholders were still concerned about the speed of delivery. In six months, I’ll look back again and see how far we have progressed to our ultimate goals.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Depending on the task or project at hand, its size may vary, as may the unique personalities comprising the team. But what you all share is a need for clarity, alignment and collaboration to accomplish your collective goals. A charter sets down on paper the project’s scope, its mission, and measurable goals. Users Guide to Me.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. ” Were you like the 13th or 15th person? For like a 13 to, say, 30-person, Series A start-up. Paul: 13th, yeah. Finding the time(line).

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