Product Management University

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

We also throw in a few tips for hiring the best Agile Product Owners, and a universal product management framework that’s been sitting right under our nose. What’s the Ideal Background for an Agile Product Owner? View the February 2017 Issue. The February Issue of The B2B Product Manager is now available.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In an Agile environment, roadmapping past a few months could become challenging without the right inputs. The key keynotes from Mind the Product London 2017. A perspective on product teams – the Product Value Team. How is your product team organized to contribute to future planning? Here is one model that can help [link].

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Product Management University

JUNE 26, 2017

The B2B Product Manager Magazine June 2017 is now available. View the June/July 2017 Issue. Are Agile Frameworks Dominating the Product Management Landscape? The post Dominating Your Market, Agile Role Clarification and The Price of One-Off Features appeared first on Proficientz - Product Management Training for B2B.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Agile and lean organization product managers are getting good at dealing with ambiguity and are open to unknown situations. The nomination period for The Best Product Person of 2017 has begun! From The Best Product Person of 2016, Chris Butler, …. Looking Forward. > > What trends do you see in product management?

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2017

Then she discovered Agile and churned out features even faster. In this insightful talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017, Melissa shares how to identify whether you are in the build trap – and more importantly what we can do as product leaders and product managers to escape it. Say “I don’t know”.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

The AI Revolution in Voice of the Customer Research Early AI Experiments (2017-2018) AMS began experimenting with artificial intelligence for customer research around 2017-2018. Unlike traditional research projects that often require extensive planning and formal structure, AI-powered approaches offer more agility and flexibility.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. He is a published O’Reilly Media author with two titles: Design Sprint (2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (2017).

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. In fact, the 2017 learning objectives for their Certified Scrum Product Owner Certification by Scrum Alliance states, "Teach that the role of the Product Owner is typically played by the customer, or customer representative, such as a product manager."

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Mind the Product

MAY 11, 2020

However, we do have a small but vibrant product community, mostly comprising by startup founders, UX and Agile practitioners, digital product and digital marketing team members of big conglomerates and local firms etc. What is product management? by Rebecca Watkin, Senior Product Manager at World First.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

What is agile product management? View this short video on how agile product management is used to improve the system [link]. Many medium to large organizations have product marketers and product managers. As you may know from my Product Mastery Roadmap , I’m a advocate of a systems approach to improving organizations.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

2) Waterfall is on its way out—Agile is on its way in. (3) New Podcast Episode: What product managers should know about agile strategy – with Dan Montgomery. This will stimulate ideas for your innovation metrics [link]. Lessons from the mobile product management roadshows. (1) Read about pitfalls to avoid at [link].

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

2] Please note that this recommendation is not in line with the 2017 edition of the Scrum Guide. Initially, it was an open meeting, but only development team members and ScrumMaster were allowed to talk (see Agile Software Development with Scrum ). Over the years, the definition of the meeting has changed. 135 and 141).

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

Empower Your Teams if you Want to be Truly Agile. Agile and Lean are both experiencing this at the moment, as they have been oversold as the solution to too many problems. Agile and Lean are not inherently poor or incorrect, rather they’re being used to solve problems they weren’t designed for.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In this engaging talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Barry O’Reilly shows that this is almost always what needs to happen when we look to develop organisations. How to Become Truly Agile. Agility and iteration are not technology approaches, they’re a business strategy. That then changes the way that you think.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

1) Editorial mindset, (2) Agile development, (3) Understanding app release trajectories, (4) Empathy, and (5) UX/UI design acumen. For example, acting on information as if it is actual knowledge can lead to mistakes. Check out this model for a concise view of the issues [link]. 10 skills mobile product managers (and others) need. (1)

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

I’ve also witnessed several agile consultancies starting to adopt more product discovery work and seek out, what I would call, more product orientated Agile Coaches, those with a product management background over a project or IT development one. For example, just look at this recent job ad from PwC here in Sydney.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Last year, I was part of a geographically distributed team who wrote the Agile Practice Guide. Shane Hastie interviewed us during Agile 2017. is here: Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths on the Agile Alliance/PMI Agile Practice Guide. See Bridging Mindsets: Creating the Agile Practice Guide.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Effect innovation leaders have four characteristics: (1) insight, (2) integrity, (3) courage, and (4) agility. Read how to use this approach [link]. Want innovation? Get the right innovation leadership. Read about each in this important article at [link]. 10 skills the best innovation managers have. (1)

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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Today’s agile methodology demands speed and agility in all phases of software development – including testing. Risk of QA failure in the agile workspace. New tools that match agile testing.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

Owning Agile by Jeff Patton. Cognitive Biases & The Questions you Shouldn’t be Asking by Cindy Alvarez. Democratising Online Controlled Experiments by Lukas Vermeer. Don’t Join the Cult by Paul Adams. Clumsy Colossus or Gentle Giant by Julia Whitney. Watch this space for the rest of 2018’s videos!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

A Remote Sprint Planning with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives based on Liberating Structures.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 14, 2022

In this Sunday Rewind we look back at Melissa Perri’s insightful talk, Escaping the build trap, from our 2017 San Francisco conference. A lot of teams are stuck in ‘the build trap’ she says. They’re busy defining and shipping software with no measures of success, managing the backlog, and focusing on getting features out the [.]

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? In my newest SiriusDecisions blog post, I look at five key trends product management leaders should be focusing on as they start planning for 2017. I’ll be presenting on Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? In my newest SiriusDecisions blog post, I look at five key trends product management leaders should be focusing on as they start planning for 2017. I’ll be presenting on Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 14, 2018

Similar to the original Agile Manifesto , I’d love for a group of product management thought leaders to get together and devise a “Product Management Manifesto” which stipulates the basic standards that we should adhere to. Rosemary King, How Curious: Mindset of a Product Manager , 31 July 2017, [link]. Kent Beck et al.,

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2018

I had the chance to talk with Andy Kaufman on his podcast, Accelerating Your Agile Journey, PPP 2017. We spoke about many of the ideas in Create Your Successful Agile Project : Learning early (instead of failing fast). We’ve had the chance to speak informally and more formally on his podcast. Servant leadership.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Or at least, that’s the way it feels in 2017. ” The entire thing makes me feel exhausted and locked into a process that doesn’t feel very agile. The authors of the original Agile Manifesto never intended for it to feel so restrictive. In fact, not too long ago one of those authors revisited the whole thing.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible. Sodexo, a workplace consultancy, labeled the “agile organization” as its top global workplace trend in a report issued at the end of 2017. Most startups I see are disciples of the Lean approach, my own included.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At the start of 2017 I made several predictions about UX design and research. Hopefully you had a great 2017 and (soon) a very happy 2018! A quick recap for UserZoom – in early 2017 we redesigned the entire UserZoom product and have consistently improved it throughout the year, and will continue to do the same in 2018.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. You might want to implement different methodologies such as agile or Kanban or scrum, but the teams at your disposal might not be well-versed in these styles. The Parable.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 23, 2017

Boyd was the great granddaddy of agile with the OODA loop. The nomination period for The Best Product Person of 2017 has begun! Besides generally caring about my growth, she really made the 1:1 important. His presentations while in the US military and the research path he took to that point is fascinating.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

In the meantime, I’ve been busy blogging… Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) October 10, 2017. Product roadmaps are still required in agile. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) November 16, 2017. .

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

In the meantime, I’ve been busy blogging… Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) October 10, 2017. Product roadmaps are still required in agile. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) November 16, 2017. .

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 1, 2023

I met Mark back in 2017 when I attended an Anthology workshop from the nice folks at WMG Publishing. For you agile types, Mark runs his podcast as a reflection—a retrospective—of what he learned from speaking with the guest. I sold two short stories at that workshop, my very first short story sales.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

2017 – Scaling and Going Viral. The Westminster terror attack, Manchester bombing, and Grenfell Tower fire happened in April, May, and June 2017, and each led to massive outpouring of support for the victims on the website. The relentless focus on growth mechanics was the main reason for our tremendous growth that year.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Managing Agile Teams Remotely. If you’ve ever had to manage an agile team, especially if you’ve had to do so remotely, Edward Upton has some sage advice that clearly resonated with a lot of our readers. From Waterfall to Agile: A Product Manager Transition. Becoming an Industry-Agnostic Product Manager.

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