Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

3rd party mobile SDKs are common Commonly, the ‘build vs. buy’ dilemma comes to an abrupt end when companies are reluctant to integrate, or even forbid integrating with, third-party software development kits (SDKs) of any sort. Total cost of ownership: How much will the software cost to buy?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Commonly, the ‘build vs. buy’ dilemma comes to an abrupt end when companies are reluctant to integrate, or even forbid integrating with, third-party software development kits (SDKs) of any sort. Total cost of ownership: How much will the software cost to buy? 3rd party mobile SDKs are common. Time to market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

Agile 249

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. John Cutler first used the term to describe such companies because their software development processes resemble factory assembly lines. What is a feature factory?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In particular, how to work with, understand, and successfully manage a distributed development team.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

Agile 156

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. The vision is where you intend to be in several years.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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nulab

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A flash Silicon Valley campus staffed by armies of developers, bazillions in the bank, and countless users. You need to understand their product team structure… And you need to learn how startups can adapt them for rapid scaling without losing sight of their goal. Product roles explained: Product team structure.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2020

You should write a business plan, think over all the functionality you want the app to perform, take into account some marketing strategies, analyze your competitors and a target audience, and then turn to the developers. Many digital agencies that work with web and mobile development focus only on the tech side of outsourcing projects.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. This needs to happen at every level. Chiefly: What makes a release successful?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

Here’s a simple version to win over your team and stakeholders. Let’s face it, roadmaps have a bad reputation. Common spans include: Next 3 months, 3–6 months, 6+ months Quarters Financial year halves Now, next, later The first column should be fixed and not change much given it’s what your team should be focused on right now.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Product managers are trusted to follow through on the company's objectives and vision , even if they don't always agree. Even if you're not 100% committed to the products you're building, your team needs you to be on board.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. In order to best support both speed and safety AS WELL AS business impact, you want your development teams and your customers driving your decision making. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no. Not so much!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2018

PM/PO, here is how you can have some deliver predictability with basic statistic applying in the team throughput TL:DR; How can we have the predictability of team deliver? Answers that all PM/PO would like to know Like a Product Manager/Owner, is an important thing to know how the team is performing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Nevertheless, the experiences that many software engineers have with most recruiters aren't that great. However, job recruiters have a bit of a bad rap.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity. What is the problem?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2018

To paraphrase: Your goal shouldn’t be to hire Product Managers, your goal should be to hire someone that helps your team ship value at a higher rate. And in order to do that, you need to someone who is complementary and compatible with your existing team and with the game you are playing as a company, at the stage your product is at.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way.

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