The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

You need to make sure you understand things like what you’re testing, how your tests need to fit your team’s workflow and your release plan. If using an Agile development process, the start of a sprint can be utilised to identify which stories will require automation. Why do UI Test Automation? How to Automate?

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ProductPlan

MAY 31, 2023

Furthermore, teams can make sure that nothing material has changed since you started working on them. Product centricity introduces agility into how businesses plan, staff, budget, prioritize, and execute. Instead, the team must learn as they go along, testing hypotheses and iterating based on learnings.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. The longer a team goes without validating (ie.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

It’s a word that business leaders often use to fire up their teams. But in all likelihood it causes those teams to groan, and not just because it’s a management buzzword. Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. They excitedly tell the team, “you’re empowered”.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

We’ve looked at the summit, attempted the various routes other teams have created, and worked hard on dialling in the basics of making sure we have food, water, and shelter. The knowns have helped us find stability; allowed us to confidently work through challenges and find solutions. Is it meeting the needs of your team and company?

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Amir Rozenberg

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In the age of Agile and Digital Transformation strategies, every brand is looking to set themselves apart. What is less of a known is that a proper quality methodology can not only ensure high quality application at the end of each sprint, it can actually help the team accelerate. image below).

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Measure for a Purpose.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

They plan and replan—and ask the teams to plan and replan. 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. The managers plan for the teams, not with the teams. Does this sound a lot like what agile teams do?

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Measure for a Purpose.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2019

Shipbuilding in 1628 was not unlike the way many agile software development teams operate. Experts declared the fundamental design and architecture to be bad because there wasn’t enough ballast to ensure stability. Of course such things are common on any failure to launch a product as well. So what did go wrong?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. By and large, however, the two most popular for today's organizations are the Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. So what are the differences?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. Backed by a rich business background, he took over the sales and marketing departments and started to put them on an operational pace that created stability and transparency. Photo by William Warby on Unsplash L.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Three and a half centuries later companies have changed; self-organized, autonomous, agile teams are on the rise helping companies to leverage opportunities in fast-paced, complex markets. Anthony If the activities of autonomous teams are not integrated, teams will still go fast; but probably not in the same direction.

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Amir Rozenberg

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In the age of Agile and Digital Transformation strategies, every brand is looking to set themselves apart. What is less of a known is that a proper quality methodology can not only ensure high quality application at the end of each sprint, it can actually help the team accelerate. image below).

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. Agile methodology has matured a lot in the technology development phase? Dual-Track Agile, by Jeff Patton.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2021

Thus, few product teams will even add this functionality to their list of must-haves. Explicit requirements: what the product team writes down. Explicit requirements are the details the product team captures and shares with stakeholders. Types of implicit requirements (for developing software products): Stability.

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Centercode

JANUARY 8, 2021

Using surveys while testing to see the features your audience wants to use makes the efforts of both your product and engineering teams more efficient. With thousands of brand-new use cases popping up, tech companies were looking for ways to both increase product stability and stay lean. Increasing Use Cases.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2019

Finding people and teams with the right skills distribution to keep up with this demand is one of the riskiest challenges organizations face today. It is just as important to a company that the team members contribute by continually accruing skills which are not directly related to their position.

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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. They build out familiar marketing, finance, and HR teams to play back-office roles needed to nourish the increasingly immobile plant. Most startups I see are disciples of the Lean approach, my own included.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Customer Validation enables companies to evaluate the stability, satisfaction, and adoption of a product before launch and throughout its maturation. The feedback collected from delta testing validates acceptance between releases or builds, which is indispensable in the era of agile development and continuous iteration.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. The manager’s role changes from control to serve the teams, so the teams can achieve their flow with technical excellence. Product owners manage a given team’s backlog. (If

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 4, 2020

My previous post focused on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “The Agile C-Suite” 1. . The title sets up the obvious–Agile isn’t new, but having C-suite level executives embrace it is. This myopic view of Agile has been an impediment to organizational and business adoption. . Denning’s Laws of Agile.

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Gainsight

MAY 13, 2020

This has allowed Splunk to see 57% improvements in time to value and created a seamless handoff between the pre and post-sales teams which ensures a great customer experience. By ensuring everyone in the company is focused on the same strategic goals, that focus allows product teams to thrive even in a crisis.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the first couple sentences of “Agile Integration: The Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,” a recently released report by Red Hat, the authors write: “Business success is increasingly based on your ability to react to change. This is not to be confused with the traditional “agile software development,” according to the authors.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 25, 2019

At a basic level, feature flags allow development teams to turn features on and off without deploying new code. Having the ability to completely turn off features means that feature flags also increase application stability and remove the need for hotfixes. Aligning your entire team to deliver value. Raising the feature flag.

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Centercode

JUNE 26, 2019

Centercode is pioneering Customer Validation , which represents the process of evaluating the stability, satisfaction, and adoption of a product before launch and throughout maturity by gaining actionable feedback and insights from product users in real environments through effective Alpha, Beta and Delta testing.

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Centercode

JUNE 26, 2019

Centercode is pioneering Customer Validation , which represents the process of evaluating the stability, satisfaction, and adoption of a product before launch and throughout maturity by gaining actionable feedback and insights from product users in real environments through effective Alpha, Beta and Delta testing.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. The “Development Team” groups really keyed in on the need to become more self-directed.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

As they work with several teams throughout the product’s development, being firm on goals and expectations will teach each team to expect direction. By seeing what issues may come with each step of product development, they can remain keen and agile, adjusting and shifting as necessary. They should: Be in control.

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Pragmatic Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2018

Add to that all the advantages and disruptions that arise from the SaaS model, agile development, freemium and ad-funded apps, mobile and tablet apps, open source, and blockchain and you have quite a competitive situation. And prospects can be charmed by a small company with a team of personable, attentive managers.

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Pragmatic Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2018

Add to that all the advantages and disruptions that arise from the SaaS model, agile development, freemium and ad-funded apps, mobile and tablet apps, open source, and blockchain and you have quite a competitive situation. And prospects can be charmed by a small company with a team of personable, attentive managers.

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Pragmatic Marketing

AUGUST 1, 2018

Add to that all the advantages and disruptions that arise from the SaaS model, agile development, freemium and ad-funded apps, mobile and tablet apps, open source, and blockchain and you have quite a competitive situation. And prospects can be charmed by a small company with a team of personable, attentive managers.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 27, 2019

The more frequently code is released, the more opportunities product teams have to gather feedback. “Frequent releases let the application development teams obtain user feedback more quickly. Previously, teams might have worked on features that weren’t useful but didn’t discover that until after the next big release.

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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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Amir Rozenberg

MAY 18, 2017

The stability of the offering was always hugely important, which meant change was very slow to come. There were large QA teams that normally had little or no direct communications with a) the developers, b) the network operators, and c) the end customer (via CSRs). AR: What changed in regards to video-related offerings?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

If so, you might have encountered these problems: Story points reflect the ideal thinking of the team, not the actual experience of the team. That's why I recommend all teams (including management teams) measure cycle time, not velocity. Because normal humans, including this team, do not work on the weekends.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

We also discuss why velocity matters, and look at ways to improve your team’s velocity. Velocity is a metric that describes how much work a team can deliver during a sprint. Tracking feature velocity allows teams to estimate accurately how long work will take to complete. Why should development teams measure velocity?

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