Product Talk

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Agile + DevOps West. Agile on the Beach. Are you looking for the 2022 Product Conferences list? Find it here. January . ProductCon London: The Product Management Conference. London, UK. February . Leading Design. San Francisco, CA. Outcome 2023. Chandigarh, India. ProductWorld.

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Product Culture

MAY 10, 2023

Lots of firms say they are Agile, to sound like Amazon or Google, but don’t have the mindset. They don’t brand themselves “Agile” because they view what they’re doing as common sense. I like this article: Understanding Fake Agile. What Agile sins have you witnessed? Tell me a story.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. What are we fighting for?—?is

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2020

Remote Agile Event Planning?—?a My solution to this challenge is going the extra mile regarding the remote agile event planning. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? As we will use Liberating Structures frequently during the remote agile event, I point to an article series covering Liberating Structures for Scrum.

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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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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. Regardless, the following articles are a must-read for anyone concerned with rolling out the best product in each iteration. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Agile on the Beach. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Are you looking for the 2021 Product Conferences list? Find it here. February . ProductWorld. Virtual and Oakland, CA. ProductCon. March .

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. For agile at scale, I don’t believe this is true.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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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. These questions and more will be answered in this article. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. What is Agile?

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AB Tasty

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s easy to lose your way when building an Agile roadmap. If you get too detailed with your planning, you end up building a roadmap that is Agile in name alone but looks more like a traditional Waterfall roadmap. But if you don’t perform enough planning, then you’ll produce a skeleton of a roadmap that […].

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Ask the Scrum Master or agile coach to facilitate so you can focus on shaping the vision and you don’t have to ensure that everyone is heard and that nobody hijacks the decision-making process. Despite its name, a product vision should not describe the product or solution.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. What’s the ideal background for an Agile Product Owner and where should I look to find them? The Agile product owner is a hybrid role that’s part surrogate user and part product expert. Who’s better qualified to lead your Agile teams?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics?—?An An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books?—?A Faking agile metrics can become significantly more subtle.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification On the flip side, many development teams are now fully immersed in “Agile world” that is all about delivering small increments of working code according to strict rituals. Specification

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Agile development is simply a methodology for building software. Finding user problems. Writing epics and stories.

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Back when I was gearing up to write "Escaping the Build Trap," I bumped into a publisher who was keen on me penning a book about Agile UX. Back in the day, if you were a consultant or speaker and wanted to get noticed, you needed a book with a publisher's name on it. But my heart was set on Product Management. That was back in 2016.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JULY 20, 2018

In some earlier articles and in a talk I gave at a local product management meetup , I’ve shared about the importance of having a toolkit of mental models. Come up with spiffy names for the axes, and for the quadrants. I used “Right projects, right people” for the name of the magic quadrant. Clever names.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The second article of this series talked about success criteria and how to facilitate the voting process. He did a mail merge so it had everyone’s individual name and assigned them a ticket. This time, we talk about a critical aspect of PI Planning. Whether onsite or online, how do you make this event valuable and fun. .

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Here are his top blogs that we highly recommend going through first: Product vs Feature Teams – Marty Cagan addresses confusion in tech product roles in this article. Who is Marty Cagan? If you still want to explore his ideas, his blog posts are not to be missed.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. For a more detailed discussion, see my article Use Decision Rules to Make Better Product Decisions.). 1 Set an Objective. Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? Which outcome do you want to achieve?

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

“Agile” is something most teams do wrong*, without realizing they’re doing it wrong. Let’s apply this lens to agile as applied within a company, and see if it helps people decide to do things differently. When You Say Agile, What Do You Mean? When You Say Agile, What Do You Mean?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2020

cents (10 pence) per article. $5 Roman Pichler Roman has his own website which is well known within the product and agile development communities, but he still has a decent amount of content on Medium. Noah Weiss - Medium For regular, relevant product content The name of this category is underselling those in it a bit.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” You can find out more about participatory decision-making in my article “ Use Decision Rules to Make Better Decisions ”.).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2020

Results of a Virtual Strategy Session for Scrum Masters Regarding Remote Work Last week, 30-plus participants in the 23rd Hands-on Agile meetup had a virtual strategy session where they explored Liberating Structures’ Critical Uncertainties microstructure. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? directly taken from the skript?—?to

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

In my articles about go to market , I always mention the importance of “customer stories.” We’ll cover a basic storytelling structure in this article. In the next article, we’ll talk about how you can use these stories in various situations, including the go to market scenarios as well as others. You can abbreviate it PSR.

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Product Management University

JUNE 20, 2017

In the world of agile software development, the product manager vs product owner confusion is hardly new. It merely has a new name. Traditional or agile, it’s necessary regardless of who does it, their title or how it gets done. In an agile environment they’re called Product Owners.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. I have a new article coming out on expected commercial value, which builds likelihoods into the business case. How do you estimate likelihoods?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The first occurred at a conference, using an article I wrote. Soon after I published Manage Your Project Portfolio , I wrote an article, Project Portfolio Decisions–Decisions For Now. That article has an image that shows how the work flows through the portfolio. ” That's when he glanced at my name tag.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

In my articles about go to market , I always mention the importance of “customer stories.” We’ll cover a basic storytelling structure in this article. In the next article, we’ll talk about how you can use these stories in various situations, including the go to market scenarios as well as others. You can abbreviate it PSR.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Integrating artificial intelligence capabilities into data integration offers an ideal solution, automating the data preparation and introducing agility and efficiency in analyzing extensive datasets. They restrict data access and sharing, leading to redundancies, inconsistencies, and an incomplete understanding of the business.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Join more than 210 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For more, check out my article on Doug Hall’s Three Laws of Marketing Physics , or his excellent book Jumpstart Your Business Brain! It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. Name Image Description.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers.

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