Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 27, 2018. Agile product management tip of the day: Don't write user stories that start "As [persona X]" unless you've agreed on and documented "persona X."

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

On the Product Love podcast , host Eric Boduch and I had a wide-ranging discussion including how product management leaders need to support the product managers on their team, the most important traits of product managers, and some simple practical ways to be “customer-focused.” — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 23, 2018.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2019

Product Talks: Product Tournament, August, 2018. This is great news for Heads of Product hiring new Product people into their teams. Does Agile encourage people to rush? Speak to any product manager at a product management meet-up and they will sound practiced and polished. Be biased towards action.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the past 20 years, we have seen Digital and Agile Transformation Programs grow and swell to $1.3 It’s a word that isn’t commonly favored by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. It means the introduction of: Agile SDLC Practices.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It probably started with Ben Horowitz’ famous “good product manager, bad product manager” memo and the latest salvo was my own post “ you are not the CEO of anything ”. As product managers we need to encourage and coach our teams. We should remember that product management is a team sport. Just Where do You Stand?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT. We use AWS or Azure, so we’re cool. Sound familiar?

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? What are the important things that flow from the product management group to development? Do they have money? Who pays us money?

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. Apart from designing impactful digital solutions for our clients, we develop our products at UX studio — UX folio and Copyfolio. Our client portfolio is rich and diverse.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. These roles gave me opportunities helped me gain exposure on how to develop web applications for users. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Backlog Anti-Patterns The third Hands-on Agile webinar product backlog anti-patterns covers common problems from out-dated and oversized tickets to the part-time proxy product owner and his or her idea repository. It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2020

So ultimately again you’re trying to create teams that are designed for growth, designed for understanding the customer. We’re not taking away autonomy from our team but we need to provide some sort of process. That’s what it used to be like. And to a certain extent sometimes that’s still the case.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In this fast-paced talk from BoS USA 2018, jobs-to-be-done expert and lifelong innovator Bob Moesta helps give you the skills to make all your innovation outcomes more predictable, and successful. Thing is I’ve learned a lot about how to develop products. This was my greatest weakness. I’m an engineer. Five Skills.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

So there’s almost always two questions that I hear from the executive team or the leadership team when faced with reviewing a roadmap or anything else that comes out of product management usually they are phrased in these two ways. Most important in the enterprise space is our sales team. No coincidence.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Talks from BoS USA 2018. Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Talks from BoS Europe 2018. Alison Coward: Designing High-Performing Teams. Wade Foster: Building Operating Cadence With Remote Teams.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. So the dumbest one: I show a development team on your left, including a product person. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management. Reducing distance. That’s right.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2019

An external and internal ecosystem of customers supporting teams, professional I.T. It meant that the rich customer was funding the poor startup with no issuance of equity, no dilution of ownership, and of the upside rewards available to the investors and the entrepreneurial founders of the business – the cheapest capital imaginable.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Learn the method that Bruce used to focus his team on the few critical things that resulted in the sale of his company for $125 million. I’ve been in product management roles or engineering management or UX or business development or agile enablement. He’ll cover: Why prioritization is important.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 20, 2019

And new challenges force you to develop new methods of solving old problems. During that time, there were diagnostic protocols and tools developed to help troubleshoot problems on the network. Since applications were simpler then, the need wasn’t as bad. Things are always changing. Performance monitoring is an old problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company. So when you see a spike in demand, you can meet it, no matter what size your team is. “We We’re here for you.”

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Userzoom

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is a guide for UX and research practitioners who have either newly joined an organization that’s using the Agile methodology, or their current product development is adopting Agile for the first time and they’ve been told to “make UX research happen in this new fangled process immediately please!” . What is Agile?

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Modus Create

MARCH 6, 2020

With the relentless pace of innovation using Lean software development, we’ve seen an explosion in the use of serverless technologies with a mantra of “NoOps.” Research has shown teams implementing modern DevOps practices are significantly higher performing than those who don’t. 5 times lower change failure rate.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The team that I work in has enabled democratization of testing at over 500 organizations around the world. The first one is that it reduces risk of launching bad product. The second is that it ends debates within product teams. Lots of people are working in agile now. And there’s not that many teams out there.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 26, 2021

There’s a lot of details, but the main takeaways of this article are to learn: how to increase product development ROI by utilizing customer feedback methods of collecting and responding to customer feedback the software for managing and analyzing the voice of customers in context. Design and development with customer feedback.

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Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

I sat down with this self-proclaimed loud mouth to discuss his keynote at DECISIONS 2018 , and Jez kindly agreed to do a brief Q&A so we could pick his brain on the state of things in the world of software delivery. People he encounters will often say, “Hey, have you heard of this lean product development?” It’s 2018!

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