Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? So read on for a quick summary of each book, who the author is, and key points, so you can pick a book for your next beach day. Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush is the ultimate book on how to implement product-led growth and build winning products.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. Our guide introduces 15 popular prioritization frameworks along with their pros and cons. What is a feature prioritization framework?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:56]

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. Some fellow authors include the stakeholders, for instance, Steve Haines in his book The Product Manager’s Desk Reference , whereas others don’t, for example, Marty Cagan in his book Inspired.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Have a hard time choosing between product prioritization frameworks? Luckily, product prioritization frameworks exist for just that. Why use a product prioritization framework? Before diving into the frameworks, let’s explain why many of these frameworks exist in the first place. The MoSCow method.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2021

How should agile coaches work? I've heard several questions and problems around what agile coaches should and should not do. Should agile coaches focus on: How well the teams use their pre-determined agile framework. Enroll (or somehow persuade) the managers in an agile mindset. (As I see this a lot.

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The Basics of Product Management

APRIL 29, 2020

OKR stands for “Objectives and Key Results” To be a successful Product Manager, you need to fully understand the OKR Framework – a must know strategy. You may already be using some version of the OKR framework, but you may not be aware of it. But where did this framework come from? OKR Framework Basics.

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Modus Create

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s been 30 years since the creation of the agile manifesto. And yet, agile remains misunderstood by the vast majority. . That’s what happened with lean and what’s happening with agile. . Agile Has Gone Mainstream. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2021

We talked with agile consultant Liz Keogh about how to get this right, who estimates are for, her invaluable scale for estimating complexity, and how to pronounce the word Cynefin. The Cynefin Framework. MindTools article on The Cynefin Framework. * ’ piece at Agile Alliance. Get in Touch, Rate Us, and More!

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These include the following seven capabilities, which I teach in my Product Leadership Training and describe in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Trust-building: Be able to earn the trust of others, including senior stakeholders and managers, and use it to influence and guide people. Know when to delegate. See Peter G.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Dave West of Scrum.org Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. He is a frequent keynote speaker and is a widely published author of articles, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. What brought you to ‘agile?’ “So

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For example, I write in my book Strategize : “As the person in charge of the product, you should own the product strategy (…), and you should be empowered to have the final say on strategic decisions.” [5] In the scaling framework SAFe, however, the SAFe product owner has level-one empowerment, as far as I can tell. [4]

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Different product frameworks.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 21, 2018

In this talk from this year’s MTP Engage in Hamburg, I share some advice on how product people can use lateral leadership in managing agile teams. When I first talked to people for my forthcoming book on lateral leadership, I found that most of my peers weren’t aware of the term. Do you Lead Laterally? Key Takeaways.

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 21, 2020

I’m refreshing the book for a 3rd edition that will be released in about a year. Hence, you’re going back and forth; almost like you’re editing a book. It’s not about agile. The post Best-in-Class Product Management Framework: The Product Management Life Cycle Model appeared first on Sequent Learning Networks.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Viktor Cessan Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. In the 14 years since he started working with Agile methodologies, he has helped companies such as Spotify, H&M, King, Avanza Bank, Telenor, and Sony Ericsson work more effectively.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. It’s a framework, not a fully defined process.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. To provide a framework for communicating delivery dates to business stakeholders.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business. Optimizing the whole.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms adopted Brainmates’ Product Management framework to facilitate a market-driven way of thinking company-wide, and to equip their Product Team with a repeatable process to take the most valuable ideas to market fast. The 10 steps we followed to embed the Product Management framework. Where do you start? What matters most?

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user. That is what I´m calling “magical framework”. So, in this post I want to do the opposite: I won´t give you one more “magical framework”.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

This sounds like a text-book product management responsibility to me. The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. .” Why didn’t the framework use the term product manager ? Having two different product owner roles makes the confusion worse.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Fortunately for us, Tim not only owns up to his mistakes, he’s written a book to help the rest of us avoid making the same ones. Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! The Auftragsklärung framework. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. Book the demo! This involves filtering out ideas that aren’t in line with your product vision and using prioritization frameworks to identify ones that have the greatest impact. What’s the difference?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions. To see how Userpilot can help you make informed prioritization decisions, book the demo! Create the grid.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If the answer to these questions is yes, then Scrum is probably not the best framework for your product. You can use it to implement an agile process with the flexibility to work on different items and release them individually at different times. Neither Scrum nor any other framework is always the best fit. Learn More.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. The middle managers actively acted against the framework. I thought this framework would work for us. But I don't see that it is. ” That's when Don learned that the framework didn't help the senior leaders learn what to do differently.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

There should be dedicated automation testers to help build an effective and efficient UI automation framework, or assisting developers themselves in building it as part of your integration tests. If using an Agile development process, the start of a sprint can be utilised to identify which stories will require automation.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We tend to take our six-month-long waterfall project, carve it up into a series of two-week sprints, and call it “Agile.” But this isn’t Agile. Chip and Dan Heath, in their book Decisive , outline four villains of decision-making that lead to poor decisions. Nor is it continuous. It’s easy to get lost.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The framework and systems needed are a topic of a new book written by our guest, Katherine Radeka, and titled High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster. ” That’s a good endorsement, and in our discussion, Katherine shares her innovation framework to make that happen.

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