The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2022

This article examines five different types of roadmaps used to make a product a success, each with a different purpose. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

Add to that the agile revolution, which yanked product managers deep into the execution ( preparing a sprint every other week requires a lot of work! ), and you’ll see why two decades later the focus of product management had shifted. Before we dive deeper into this I want to remind you again how I define the word product.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Scrum is a popular agile framework. You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. The marketer might have to create or update the marketing strategy; the sales rep might have to adapt the sales channels, for instance.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. What are OKRs? This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2019

But in the context of planning, agile software development practitioners are wise to take Eisenhower’s words to heart. “In Eisenhower Why agile teams need a product roadmap There are many discussions out there on both the importance of, and lack of importance of agile product roadmaps.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. A handy tool to describe the vision is my product vision board.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ Know when to delegate. See Peter G. See Peter G.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. This assumes that you review and update the strategy and roadmap together, an approach I find very useful.) Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 8, 2019

In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. Decades before agile’s inception, Dwight D. – Dwight D.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap. This step may be the biggest challenge to a realistic roadmap. The bad news is that your roadmap is only as accurate as the information driving it.

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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. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Top Marty Cagan books product managers should read With all that experience, Marty surely has tons of strategies and insights to share. 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.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . HBR article setup. Balancing the Agile Enterprise .

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. 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.

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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.” The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work.

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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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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. This list is not the be all end all; there are countless ‘must-read’ articles for PMs. I’ve hand-picked articles that specifically helped me during key moments in my career.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Research article. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility.

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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 QA, but it didn’t fix the planning waterfall : Strategy? However this part of agile development is not practiced as religiously. In fact they may get worse. Specification ?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2020

Roadmapping is a crucial part of every product manager’s role, but it’s safe to say a lot of PMs don’t particularly enjoy it. Luckily, there are some excellent product roadmap tools out there to help make it more bearable. In this article, we’re going to look at the most popular product roadmap tools. Productboard.

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Gainsight

MAY 14, 2019

A product roadmap is a high-level, visual representation of the direction your product offering will take over time. A good product roadmap will provide your colleagues and stakeholders with the “why” behind your product and should serve the following purposes: Lay out the overarching strategy. Executive-level product roadmaps.

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. Lean has a lot in common with Agile, but there are also key differences.

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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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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility. 3 Ingredients to Building Out Your Product Vision Unfortunately, all of the roadmap planning in the world and the most thought out mitigation strategies are not going to prevent stakeholder roadmap dismantling, scope changes and risk events from occurring.

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Modus Create

APRIL 1, 2019

Modus is pleased to announce Agile 2.0.0 We have taken agile to the power of two by applying Agile to Agile, and eliminating all the waste in software development. We are so taken with this new version of Agile that our entire team has collaborated on this article using modern Agile 2.0.0 30 or more?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Here are the top 10 most clicked articles from the 408 links featured in this year’s 51 newsletters – 10 articles your peers digged so much you should definitely check them out as well. Agile Died While You Were Perfecting Your Standup. Why Isn’t Agile Working? Agile is not a silver bullet. I Hate MVPs.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. What is Bad Performance?

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UserTesting

MAY 3, 2019

Today’s article is a guest post from Heather McCloskey, Content Marketing Manager at ProductPlan. Just because your organization has adopted agile methodologies doesn’t mean that you don’t need a big picture strategy and a high-level plan for … The post Yes, your agile team needs a product roadmap appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what is product management , how it differs from traditional project management, the role it plays in building products that delight your users, and the skills a good product manager must demonstrate to succeed. Drives product success. Different roles within a product team.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e.

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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 23, 2022

And because of this, you have no way to create any kind of up-front iterative release strategy, because you don’t have a holistic picture of their journey. Just stop reading this article for a few seconds while you click on that Amazon link and buy the book. (I Your customers will love you. You boss will love you.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

” In this case, the previous observations are the articles I’ve been posting on the blog. In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile. The Best Way To Understand Agile. The Challenge of Roadmaps. How To Share A Roadmap Without Driving Into A Ditch.

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