Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

I find it helpful to use the product roadmap so that it connects the overall product strategy with the product backlog, as shown in the picture below. Sometimes it even makes sense to employ a release train and timebox major product releases, for example, to coordinate different products or regularly offer improvements to the users.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

Learn how to build a DEEP backlog and conduct productive refinement calls in order to maintain a happy and agile team. If your answers give you cause for concern, you probably need to do a better job refining your backlog and conducting a backlog refinement meeting. A not well refined backlog causes many problems for the team.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. Sprint review meeting : sprint goal , product increment, definition of done, release burndown chart. Consequently, you often have to run longer meetings.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 25, 2017

Your first option is to work on the product backlog in the sprint review meeting. This approach ensures that the backlog is updated before the next sprint starts. Additionally, the backlog is collaboratively worked on. What’s more, the feedback must not require further analysis or give rise to bigger backlog changes.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The product backlog contains the details necessary to develop the product as outlined in the roadmap including epics and user stories. Note that the planning horizon in the picture above becomes increasingly shorter from vision to sprint goal while the planning artefacts become more specific and focused. Timeframes.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1]. You can do this by adding tech debt remedial items to the product backlog.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 7, 2022

As I said in Part 1 , teams use backlogs and roadmaps to know what's now and what's next. Teams use backlogs for the day-to-day tactical decisions. I also assume that this team releases externally, to customers, at least once a month. And when teams can see what's next, they can keep the strategic decisions in mind.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

From The Scrum Guide , the purpose of the Sprint Review is to “inspect the increment and adapt the backlog as needed.” . However, if they keep going, they gain information that can be used to inform the delivery of value via the upcoming Backlog Refinement and Sprint Planning events. Let’s Unpack Things. And the event is “just a demo.”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 23, 2023

To add fuel to the fire, companies, and teams often seek certainty on return on top of product release certainty. The desire for concrete, tangible deliverables, release certainty, and clear financials leads to a team committed to delivering what was funded and paid for. Growth in users, growth in engagement, growth in revenue.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Managing Product Backlog ] [ Next : Chapter 15 -Managing Product Development ] [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Your Product Backlog list seems endless as the contribution comes from so many different sources?—?internal That’s when you require prioritizing your backlog. Chapter 14/17: How to Prioritize Product Features ?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

Only once you have a product in the market that is a general release with paying users is a roadmap worth considering. New products, even in mature companies with products in general release, require distinction. Focus instead on learning and creating a solid backlog. Note: This does not mean you don’t have an overall plan.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Your secret weapon is your ability to prioritize your product backlog by business value, continuously. As a product owner, what are the first questions you ask yourself when you begin to prioritize your backlog by business value? What could potentially hold up release? What do my end users really want to see?

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Userpilot

MAY 21, 2023

Delivering a successful feature release is no easy task. In our guide, we discuss; The importance of features releases The stages of a successful release Best practices for each of these stages We also mention how Userpilot can help your product team orchestrate your feature releases. What is a feature release?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

Additionally, you may want to ask the team to help refine product backlog items or update the product roadmap , for instance. [2]. Therefore, don’t turn it into a product backlog or roadmapping workshop. 2] Please note that this recommendation is not in line with the 2017 edition of the Scrum Guide.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

The product backlog I managed grew daily. And I diligently added the stories to the backlog. Add it to the backlog. Add it to the backlog. Declaring Backlog Bankruptcy. I diligently prioritized and managed the epics and stories, moving them into the next two or three sprints in the sprint backlog.

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Haines-Group

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Many teams using Agile software development favor this approach because it pushes the more time critical features forward in the development backlog. NOTE : Both of these standard criteria schemes use cost as the denominator in the formula. But these features will likely surface again in planning around future releases.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Are they features, backlog items, design artefacts, outcomes; all of these? How often have you released a thing that didn’t work, or surprised a stakeholder by showing them something that’s completely misaligned to their expectations.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Note: Be sure to implement the framework across your company, not at the product level. the backlog) Historical Data Utilization: PLM systems often store historical data about product performance, failures, and successes. Rather than think of the lifecycle as fully formed, think of it as something to mold and shape.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 14, 2022

When your product team wants to add backlog items to your Roadmap, you might need to re-enter those items from your original backlog source manually. Soon after we released the ProductPlan app, we went to work building integrations to connect our customers’ roadmaps with the apps and data sources their stakeholders use every day.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

With user and business goals in place, you can take the next step and determine release goals. I like to capture release goals on the product roadmap together with their metrics, and I have a preference to work with a goal-oriented (or themed) roadmap like my GO Product Roadmap.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

And note that this process needs to happen whether you’re talking about the product or an individual feature of a product. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. Product” involves things like: Requirements or user stories or features. Design, both visual and technical. Agile development methodologies. Product manager =?

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

MVP/MLP release is the final stage but it’s not the end of the journey; it allows you to collect user feedback to guide further iterations. Prime your users for product release with a solid launch campaign. 7: MVP release and customer feedback collection and iterations. 2: Idea management. #3: 3: Technical specifications. #4:

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Documents: PRDs, MRDs, HLDs, LLDs, SLAs, YAMLs, Release Notes, Press Releases, Articles Find the documents that have been written about the products you’re inheriting. You may find some backlog items. Photo by Andres Siimon on Unsplash Internal Discovery Your organization has a lot of knowledge about the current product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The point to be noted that business strategy drives the product(s) strategy, so they are not two different things but like universal sets and subsets. Outcomes directly help to ensure the products do not remain on a bucket list of features but create value instead during each release or in MVP. Success measure: Again a S.M.A.R.T

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Split

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

If your release train is moving slower than you would like, take a look at the three essential ingredients you should have. In today’s software-driven climate, the best tech companies — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google — are releasing software updates thousands of times a day. However, as with any backlog, it is not prioritized.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 10, 2020

The whole Product department was so excited, that we even added a special ‘thank you note’ to our special customer, for encouraging us to add this functionality. We commence our story in the Beta stage of release. We inserted it into our product backlog and after analyzing it, we interviewed the customer.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The product owner role was born in Agile scrum , a process initially created to deliver software more quickly by giving the product development team more autonomy in exchange for frequent releases that increase customer value. Manage and prioritize the backlog. They attend every scrum meeting and prioritize the backlog.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

Most of the products and features we were releasing failed to live up to what we hoped for. Throughout the discussions we utilized “silent brainstorming” and “note and vote” exercises to avoid the pitfalls of the first meeting. This forms a backlog of opportunities —not a roadmap. The opportunity backlog also evolves and shifts.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

A public roadmap is a representation of what an organization is currently working on, recent releases , and an indication of a product strategy that is publicly accessible. You might want to provide a view for internal stakeholders to help inform product development and plan sprints, releases, and product increments.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. Each of those products has a product roadmap that needs to be reflected in the product’s backlog, which ultimately provides the Sprint Backlog. Participation is free.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

That repository might differ from the backlog. The place to store backlog items for near term work on feature sets. Note: We also didn't discuss bandwidth for internet access. One week, the developers forgot to release their licenses when they left for the day. Another week, the testers forgot to release their licenses.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What’s more, you’ll struggle to determine the right product backlog items. You should therefore do just enough product discovery and strategy work before you start using Scrum and before you add any items to the product backlog. Note that none of the five artefacts is part of Scrum. But don’t stop there.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2018

As noted above, mobile product managers’ responsibilities typically include: Owning long-term product strategy. Documenting feature releases for technical teams. Leading backlog grooming when new work needs to be assigned, along with creating and assigning stories to technical team members.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

MVP reduces the time to market and allows a quicker release of the product. They describe what the feature does and its rationale and are kept in a backlog. Once you have developed your tech specs and outlined the overall product vision, it’s time to prioritize the backlog items. Who develops technical specs? Launch MVP.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They develop functionality that solves specific user problems instead of releasing features for their own sake, to match what competitors offer or because that is what users want. Releasing your minimum viable product (MVP) is next. However, you should not aspire to release a complete offering. Conduct SWOT analysis?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Please note: The list may become less applicable with an increase in the size of the organization in question.): (Product) vision and strategy are neither transparent nor regularly communicated. Roadmaps with fixed release dates are provided for quarters in advance by the management.

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