Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

Finishing a story creates a new decision point, for both the product and the corporate strategy. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. The product owner asks the team to finish 5 stories in this iteration. That's the PO assessing the relative value of the work for this product.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? Focus on business results, not agility per se. Teams might feel pressure from a too-large backlog or too-long roadmap. Nobody wants to “be agile.” ” People want the results agility offers them.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. They offer their product in two versions: Pro and Lite. (No They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. Let's start with a couple of examples. Others mob.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Actions matter when it comes to business agility. Since managers create and refine the culture, they can create an environment that supports business agility. An Environment that Supports Business Agility.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s Product Roadmap Building Time Again! The end of 2020 is nearing and it’s product roadmap building time again?—?at To make that process as worthwhile as possible, adhering to the following seven product roadmap first principles has proven beneficial in my experience.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

” and still have a great product. Not to release a bad product. No, to release a smaller product. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I ask the question: How little can we do to satisfy our needs? I apply that thinking to the backlog, the roadmaps, the feature sets, everything. See Who’s the Boss?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But there are several problems with all this planning: These plans require prediction at all levels, from strategy to product to what the team delivers. That's a lot of pre-commitment to long roadmaps, large and long portfolios, and long backlogs. That's how we get to years of backlogs for products and the project portfolio.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. In product management, I often saw silos coming from top to bottom. It’s evolving so fast.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

A digital product is commonly redeveloped for two reasons: It has accumulated too much technical debt or its technologies are outdated, but the product is still needed—be it to generate revenue, support other revenue-generating products, or automate business processes and increase productivity.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Have a hard time choosing between product prioritization frameworks? As a product manager , deciding how to spend your time and resources can be difficult, especially as you are bombarded with meetings, feature requests, new customer data, shifting objectives , and more. Luckily, product prioritization frameworks exist for just that.

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 31, 2023

The overwhelming emphasis I see in product organizations is on sequencing the execution of the product strategy over the upcoming quarters. Optimizing the product operations work to deliver a subpar product. There is little to no effort applied to shaping the product strategy. Alignment or Execution Focus?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Companies will see higher productivity, as dedicated teams will work on assigned projects and in-house teams have reduced workloads. Regardless of the stage the project is at, companies can hire remote engineering teams to create more agile workflows. How to hire a remote development team?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Those are exactly the problems Daniel, Prateek, and I discussed in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video). Even if I had organized the data (in a roadmap or a portfolio), I would have had to take the time to work through it all. Just as you change your products.). I wrote about this in Manage Your Project Portfolio.)

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Transformation is 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. Why Product Managers Should care? Great Product Management can deliver a higher return on the companies Transformation investment.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

TL; DR: 20 Questions to Ask the Product Owner to Get up to Speed as a New Scrum Master From Scrum Master to Product Owner, this set of questions addresses the future collaboration between the two individuals and the rest of the Scrum Team. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. David Gipp: How do you do that?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I spoke with an agile coach whose team works in flow, similar to this board. Their product owner doesn't spend enough time with the team. The PO is so busy, the PO can only grab already-existing ideas/stories off the roadmap. Agile approaches let us finish when we're done—not when we've done it “all.”

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 28, 2019

You have an agile roadmap to see where you're headed. Your team hates having to translate the agile planning into more traditional planning. If you're in this pickle, your manager might think your agile team doesn't replan very often. That manager might assume your team uses an agile approach only as a way to deliver.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Are you looking for some kind of inspiration for your first Product Roadmap (PR)? And wondering how to create a professional product Roadmap ? Are you planning to implement good practices in your product roadmap to get sustained growth? It helps you to design a successful Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.) just to name a few.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 28, 2019

Many of my clients want to create long-term plans, based on data with short validity, even for products in a high state of change. I suspect the first question is how much change do you need in your product, not how good your information is, or how much planning you need. Where Is Your Product in Its Lifecycle?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. So, what qualities does it take to become a product manager ? My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Do you lead a new product management team? Make it easy to start a business, protect our persons and property from harm, provide ways to get products from point a to point b (ie., What is the role of senior leadership, particularly the head of product management? What processes do you have in place to turn ideas into products?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. But there has been surprisingly little written about a product leader’s role in the process. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. At Mind the Product, it’s always been clear to me what type of business we are.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 31, 2021

Product road mapping? As a digital transformation partner, Modus Create has introduced various organizations to Agile collaboration. Atlassian’s flagship product, Jira, initially began as an issue tracking tool for software developers. Each of these products caters to the needs of different types of teams. Automation?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 2, 2019

We have many words for people who shepherd the business value of a product. Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts. Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating. With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape. I’m excited to watch it all unfold.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2018

Agile approaches can help a team release more often. When a team releases more often, the product people can replan the product roadmaps. The project portfolio people can replan the project portfolio. The product people don’t create MVEs or MVPs —they need the entire feature set.

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 26, 2022

Transformation is 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. Why Product Managers should care? Great Product Management can deliver a higher return on the companies Transformation investment.

Customer Experience 52

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