Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

I have worked in 14 startups, founded four, and have held executive positions for better than two-thirds of my career. They directly manage a product’s strategic positioning in the marketplace, the creation of collateral materials, and the ongoing evaluation on how to best present the product to potential customers.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Interestingly, the authors also axed other elements of the 2017 edition of the Scrum Guide that I thought less contested, for example, the magnitude of work allocated to Product Backlog refinement and servant-leadership. This change probably positions the Scrum Master role closer to project managers and delivery managers.)

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket. So we decided to come up with a sub-brand that would help us position the product differently and talk more about what it was rather than what it wasn’t. 2017 – Scaling and Going Viral.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For example, a 2017 Gallup workplace poll found that roughly two-thirds of American employees are either not engaged or are actively disengaged from their work. Employees want their work to have meaning and clear purpose–and they’ll seek out positions where their contributions have a tangible impact. Share in the comments below!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 4, 2020

A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. Source : Scrum Guide 2017. Learn more about remote Liberating Structures : Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

In this talk from BoS USA 2017, Paul talked about the important things to get right to set your company up well to turn your software into money. It’s everything and only when you got a picture this detailed about your sales performance you are in a position to start saying what might we do? It’s not what can we do?

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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. Research findings are shared that in the US the cost of new-to-the-world innovation is increasing but not dramatically slowing and the outlook for other countries is more positive. Read how to use this approach [link].

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s almost like the analogy to Waterfall versus Agile—it’s small steps. From 2017 until about 2020, I iterated on a variety of online courses, and I codified my coaching curriculum. It almost always happens through this grassroots, bottom-up, start small, and iterate your way there.” I really like the way Teresa thinks.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Source : Scrum Guide 2017. There are a lot of potential reasons for a failure at this level: the lack of sponsoring from the C-level of the organization, a wide-spread belief that ‘Agile’ is just the latest management fad, and thus ignorable. Moreover, there is a career path from Junior Scrum Master to VP of Agile Coaching.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

I started by looking for on-site courses in my city (Barcelona), but at that time (2017) there were not many available and economically affordable options, so I decided to look for online options. I asked human resources if there were any open positions within our company, and luckily for me, there were three of them.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2018

The in-house IT team at Jaeger was not used to agile working practices or newer technologies (they were still running on-premise hardware) and had spent many years in maintenance mode. In mid-2017 Jaeger’s brand was purchased by Edinburgh Woollen Mill, and having worked with the business for two years it felt like the right time to move on.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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BrainStation Product Management

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Clearly, it’s a position that demands a vast degree of competency across any number of disciplines and competencies. According to Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries , Product Managers brought home the highest average salary offers of any tech role at $138,000. So to answer the question in our title, yes! the number was up 5.9

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role. Other technical skills or competencies are similarly viewed as required at most companies.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2017 she joined Andela, a software engineering-as-a-service company, leading the product and design team in creating internal products to achieve business goals. And it’s been her experience that Andela plays a positive role in the progression of its employees. Support From Within. Getting the Career you Want. Learn more.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We’re employing agile methodologies that prioritize efficiency and effectiveness. Founded in 2017 by Vlad and Yana Hrynchuk, Masterly Digital specializes in helping clients in FinTech, Web3, and DeFi elevate their brands and products through exceptional digital design.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

Vadím Orlov and Anton Andreev set up Embacy in 2017. With their branding experts and holistic marketing strategy, B2B companies can improve their brand’s positioning, raise consumer awareness, and expand their market share. Two friends, Mike Samovarov and Konstantin Degtiarev, founded the League Design Agency in 2017.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

Vadím Orlov and Anton Andreev set up Embacy in 2017. With their branding experts and holistic marketing strategy, B2B companies can improve their brand’s positioning, raise consumer awareness, and expand their market share. Two friends, Mike Samovarov and Konstantin Degtiarev, founded the League Design Agency in 2017.

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BrainStation Product Management

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Clearly, it’s a position that demands a vast degree of competency across any number of disciplines and competencies. According to Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries , Product Managers brought home the highest average salary offers of any tech role at $138,000. So to answer the question in our title, yes! the number was up 5.9

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

Los Angeles, CA $100 – $149 / hr Branding, Webflow, UI/UX Design, Website Design, Mobile Development, Responsive Design Wanted For Nothing Wanted for Nothing is a strategic design firm founded in 2017 by Marcell Rekasi. Their branding services include creating brand strategy, positioning, and product naming, among others.

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UX Studio: Product Management

DECEMBER 7, 2022

AJ Davis, a user experience strategy expert, founded Experiment Zone in 2017 in Austin, Texas. Collaborating closely with their clients and teammates, their mission is to have a positive impact on people’s everyday lives. Their most important tools are research, design and agile thinking, and deep empathy.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role. Other technical skills or competencies are similarly viewed as required at most companies.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The number of product manager roles in the US increased by 32% from 2017 to 2019. The product owner role is very much tied to Agile Scrum development and is responsible for creating user stories and epics to represent the work that needs to be done. Product Manager. Product-led growth is on the rise.

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Product Warrior

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Melissa Gee Kee , part of HR leadership at Unilever shared how they approached the problem and turned it into a disruptive opportunity at HR Tech Conference 2017 in Las Vegas. The trust shown to the vendors and the expected collaboration between vendors is similar to how successful cross functional agile product teams operate.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. LinkedIn even recently ranked it as one of the most promising jobs – in all industries. Some skills, let’s say, are pretty much required across the board for Product Managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

“I see creating conference programs or an editorial agenda for a line of books as definition exercises” It’s this personal desire to not put people in positions to fail. I’d never heard the term “design ops” until March 2017, when Dave Malouf dropped it on me. Why would we do it any other way? It sold out.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The Camera is actually positioned at the center of the screen at Z distance of 0. The Object rendering considers the position of the Camera to determine scale and screen coordinates. — Jay Garcia (@ModusJesus) November 1, 2017. The states for bullets are few and always the same – move, collide, time out and die.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. LinkedIn even recently ranked it as one of the most promising jobs – in all industries. Some skills, let’s say, are pretty much required across the board for Product Managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You now have people whose entire job is to work on the knowledge bot or on a positive way of moving tickets and demand around. Now companies can roll out new tools five, six, seven times a year and they can be really, really agile and creative in the way they build their customer experience. Scaling support as you grow.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

venture capital investments, 1995–2017: [link] The burst of the bubble (also known as the dot-com crash ), took place in the early 2000s and was a critical turning point for the technology industry. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Accountability and empowerment fuel an agile environment. A combination of accountability and empowerment fuels the company’s high-performing agile teams. For example, in a letter to shareholders in 2017, Bezos wrote: “What does Day 2 look like? It would help if you started with a positioning document. Day 2 is stasis.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 14, 2022

Whether you are new to the position or you have your fair share of experience, there are some dangers for product managers that not many people talk about. He explores a lot of topics that I haven’t covered but can also be considered pitfalls: MVP usage, Lean vs Agile, Solution tunnel vision and much more. Pitfall 1982.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Source : Scrum Guide 2017. The strength of Scrum is building on the strong position of the Product Owner. Alternatively, join 6,700-plus peers of the Slack team “Hands-on Agile” for free. In my experience, most Product Owner anti-patterns result from a less than adequate handling of this Product Backlog management task.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Product positioning can play a huge part in the success of your product and simply by changing how you look at something, can completely change the way customers think and understand who you are and what you’re selling. Watch Positioning for Growth. Agile methodology is not an exact science. 3 // Leadership. Listen Now.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When we look at all these things – agile, design thinking, design sprints, lean UX, story points, jobs to be done, personas, user experience – you’ve got to remember that we made this s**t up. — Paul Adams (@Padday) November 30, 2017. It doesn’t exist in the world of biology or chemistry or physics. Don't be me.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This puts me in a position to tell endless stories of the heroic work top UX agencies do day after day to fight for a better digital world. In 2017, the Indian IT giant Wipro Digital bought Cooper. Some have a real startup-style internal culture, with all the flexibility, agile practices, and so much enthusiasm!

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

And another issue with centralized design teams is that a load of design and tech teams are both using Jira often you’ll find the tech teams on Agile and the design team is on waterfall, so the design team becomes another blocker and they get even more demoralized and miserable because everyone’s moaning at them.

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