Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

Specifically, the people who like Gantt charts say they can predict where the project is headed. They say they know—from the Gantt and without a doubt—when the project will finish. In fact, I find that Gantt charts tend to obfuscate the reality of the project. In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2023

Microsoft Azure Cloud (Azure): Public cloud providers Microsoft Azure Cloud is a service for managing a cloud computing environment designed by Microsoft for planning, analyzing, deploying, and managing applications in a Microsoft-managed data center. Users can see options for setting up an AWS service and maps of each server.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies. It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. Just look at the manifesto.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

AI, a rapidly growing and widely adopted technology, is at the forefront of this transformation, reinventing different departments of companies, including Human Resource Management (HRM). AI’s integration into HR management processes offers a pathway to fine-tuning organizational performance.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Resource Efficiency Thinking Traps Many Managers And I said the managers were not stupid.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, I was attending a public Product Management event. One of the speakers said this: “it doesn’t matter which product you’re working on — if you’re not using AI, you’re missing out”. Good luck finding a Product Hunt launch that doesn’t include the term “AI”. I think that was a bit of an overstatement.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • Orb —The flexible billing engine for modern pricing • Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision • Vanta —Automate compliance. Before LaunchDarkly, she was a longtime chief product officer at Color and Optimizely.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Digital transformation isn’t an IT project stuck in a cost centre or in an innovation lab. The problem is that most organisations going through a digital transformation think of it as a transformation project, rather than an ongoing cultural change. Fund Teams, not Projects. This is a Product Team. This is a product team.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 15, 2024

Product managers are getting ready to make a big bet on the hot market for cold storage. Product managers are preparing to spend $500 million to build 10 to 15 refrigerated warehouses across the U.S. Product managers are preparing to spend $500 million to build 10 to 15 refrigerated warehouses across the U.S.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Salespersons would understand their customers’ needs and preferences and match them with the most suitable products from the inventory. So much so, it could be said they know as much (if not more) about products as retailers and salespersons. about brands, product pricing, and customer reviews?—?have

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2022

Without a doubt, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are leading the modern digital marketplace. NFTs are unique digital assets or products that can be traded only on unique platforms called marketplaces. Interested buyers can reach out to these marketplaces and buy these digital products using cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and Bitcoin.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 11, 2019

Digital transformation impacts almost everything, so the demand for product management continues to increase – every day. When I started in product management in the mid-1980s, most product managers were hired to work in traditional B2C businesses, which is where the idea of product management originated.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” — Jeff Bezos Ever question the value of a product development lifecycle? If you haven’t gathered from my past posts on product topics, I’ve worked with ‘interesting yet easily annoyed’ colleagues many times. Do you even know what a product lifecycle is?”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

A Cision PR Newswire report projects the SaaS market to grow from $158.2 Are you an enterprise business leader or a start-up leader planning to offer your software product as a SaaS platform? Are you an enterprise business leader or a start-up leader planning to offer your software product as a SaaS platform? billion by 2026.

Feedback Software 131

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Much of modern problems in software development have actually been solved and we keep forgetting this to our peril. These books have provided the foundations and first principles to approach software development, and later, product development. This list is focused on the management/approach more so than programming. #1

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

Building a UI/UX design portfolio with diverse projects and seeking feedback from experts, so you can showcase your skills and find employment opportunities. These roles include UX Designer, Researcher, Tester, Motion Designer, Product Designer, UX Engineer, and Product Manager. What is UX design? What is UI design?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Are you aiming to become a product analyst? A product analyst needs to be able to utilize data strategically, but their job description doesn’t depend on data science degrees anymore. This change has been primarily driven by increased access to analytics tools like Userpilot that help businesses achieve product growth.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product operations is an emerging function. How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What product ops is. What Product Managers do.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, let's consider how to see management's adaptable and resilient actions. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. And management actions matter the most. Why do I focus on management actions? See Modern Management: Encourage Experiments and Learning.).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Personalized customer experiences The modern era demands personalized interactions. Generative AI empowers businesses to create tailored recommendations, product descriptions, and chatbot interactions. Effective risk management Generative AI aids in risk mitigation by facilitating early detection and resolution of issues.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

“You might look at what’s below and feel intimidated, but this isn’t meant to be a checklist of all the things you need for us to hire you” Just like our products, our hiring process has a strong focus on conversational design. Our expectations for product and content designers show you what we look for in your work.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many managers feel pressure to deliver finished work. But there are several problems with all this planning: These plans require prediction at all levels, from strategy to product to what the team delivers. The managers don't think they need to use data to replan frequently, to address what's happening. Reasons Managers Plan.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In October 2021, we surveyed over 1,000 senior executives in the US, with a goal to understand their digital appetite and aspirations for 2022. . The survey revealed interesting insights on Corporate America’s readiness for various digital initiatives, which we consolidated in our 2022 State of Digital Transformation report.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2022

A senior manager said, “We give our resources everything they could need: technology, tools, even some training. ” I asked, “How many projects are they working on?” ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” Resource Efficiency.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 31, 2021

Project management software includes a broad spectrum of tools. To know which project management tool your team should consider, you need to understand what collaboration challenges you are experiencing. Product road mapping? Trello is a well-rounded project management tool that works well for most teams. .

Feedback Software 93

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

However, the cost, time, value/quality project management triangle comes into play. More modern tools like Cypress allow you to ‘step back’ in time through the test so you can see what changed, and when. What to Automate? The common, often invalid assumption is that we should automate everything! How to Automate?

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Split

MARCH 14, 2024

From the initial stages of design and development to the crucial phases of testing and deployment, each step in the software development lifecycle shapes the quality and effectiveness of the final product. While testing teams may feel that a mirrored production environment is sufficient, truly effective testing requires going beyond this.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2021

Hand-offs between development and operations teams have led to multiple issues for modern customer-obsessed businesses, as managing integration and delivery becomes increasingly challenging. Let’s look at an example: Consider your business works on a substantial project which involves a cloud-native application.

User Testing 118

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2022

The variety of healthcare apps Modern healthcare solutions are numerous and have different target audiences. Health monitoring apps, surgery software, hospital management software, EHR systems, telemedicine apps, doctor appointment apps, fitness apps? More and more people are downloading health apps for different purposes.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The managers don't believe the teams need product owners, so the teams don't have POs. The managers think a Scrum Master can support at least four teams. The managers (often with the assistance of a consultancy) decided Scrum was the answer. However, the managers didn't define the problem(s) they want to solve.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Brought to you by: • Sidebar —Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers • Whimsical —The iterative product workspace • WorkOS —The modern API for auth and user identity — Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the authors of best-selling books Sprint and Make Time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Automated tests allow for quick testing cycles which can eliminate bottlenecks and increase productivity. Configuration Management is Crucial Configuration management is one of the most crucial DevOps best practices because it takes care of everything from the software installation to configuration and maintenance.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It’s one of the most widely used and trusted frameworks for the modern technology company. Product and development teams needed a way to keep up. The Agile product management methodology helped teams respond and react to change faster and more efficiently. That adaptability is key for product teams today.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 19, 2021

You're a middle or senior manager in an organization trying to hold on in these crazy times. And you just discovered you're shipping the wrong version of the product. (Or Or your product doesn't work or it has some kind of horrible defect.) This is a kind of management debt. Your customers are angry. What do you say?

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