Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. Find out more about Jeffrey and Squirrel’s book, podcast and work at Conversational Transformation. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

Despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Like the technology we use to build the products we love ages and gets left behind, Agile has died while we were perfecting our standup. We are in a post-Agile world and the terrain has changed.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips.

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team. That's why asking for help is a sign of strength and leadership. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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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. Today we are talking about using a modified version of Scrum for hardware projects.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In this Agile Uprising podcast, co-hosts Andy Cleff and Erik Cottrell sit down with David Marquet to discuss his latest book, “Leadership is Language”. It’s no secret we are huge fans of David Marquet’s work, including his book, “Turn the Ship Around!: Connect, don’t conform.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. 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. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In this Agile Uprising podcast, co-hosts Andy Cleff and Erik Cottrell sit down with David Marquet to discuss his latest book, “Leadership is Language”. It’s no secret we are huge fans of David Marquet’s work, including his book, “Turn the Ship Around!: Connect, don’t conform.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work? You will also have time to think.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

Travel businesses, like many other sectors, are having to think on their feet and react quickly to respond to unprecedented levels of cancellations and virtually zero new bookings. So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership? Tear up the roadmap & OKRs. Thank you for reading.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Agile Movers & Shakers: Diana Larsen’s Questionnaire Please describe what you do in 280 characters : “On my best days, I contribute to the growing and strengthening the practices of agile coaches and teams through as many channels as possible.” What brought you to ‘agile?’ “In Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. He is the author of several books, including his latest, titled, How to Lead in Product Management. 2:00] What is agile product management? Why did you write this book to help product leaders?

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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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Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

I had the pleasure of being on the Agile Uprising Podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. How trust, empathy, and creating a safe environment are what allows us to use agile approaches. See the Modern Management Made Easy books, too. How servant leaders support people taking responsibility.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. From that success, I was then officially asked to move into the product role by the product leadership, and I have not looked back since then. Anyone can learn agile product development , basics of software design and development lifecycle, etc.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. With a vision like “healthy eating,” I can explore alternatives, for example, writing a book on healthy eating and offering healthy-eating workshops.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. Why I don't always subscribe to the idea of intent-based leadership. Why I don't always subscribe to the idea of intent-based leadership. The post Enjoy an Agile Coffee About Modern Management appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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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] See also my article Decoding Product Leadership for more information. [7]

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2021

I had a great time with Jeff and Squirrel on their podcast, Troubleshooting Agile. We spoke about the Modern Management Made Easy books in Johanna Rothman on Modern Management Part 1. The post Great Fun on the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast, Part 1 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ).

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 24, 2020

From 9/11, selling tickets online in 1995, fuel hedging in the early 1990s, to the very beginning with Herb going to the Texas Supreme Court to begin flying, and creating the Ten Minute Turn in the early 1970s, Southwest has met and overcome various challenges with innovative techniques coming from passionate Employees and fearless Leadership.

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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

JUNE 23, 2022

Jeff Patton’s book, User Story Mapping , describes the concept/process of creating user story maps much better than I can, and this book really is a must read for any agile product manager. Just stop reading this article for a few seconds while you click on that Amazon link and buy the book. (I Talk to each other!

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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. Drawing [.].

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process. That is the question. Oh, and the MRD I wrote for this? I felt pretty good about it.

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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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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Servant leadership is a mainstay of corporate cultures worldwide. Like most leadership phenomena, it evokes both passionate adoration and scoffing. What is Servant Leadership? Servant leadership is a management philosophy in which the primary goal of the leader is to serve their direct reports. Origin and Adoption.

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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

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Manage for effectiveness.

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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. Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now!

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2021

I had great fun with Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov on their podcast, “Keeping Agile Non-Denominational.” You've seen or heard about this problem: Senior leadership says, “Yes we need agility!” ” The teams say, “Yes, we got the agile goodness here!” ” And the middle managers?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 12, 2017

He has a background in the public and private sectors and he begins his ProductTank NYC presentation with a quote from Steve Jobs, which underpins the central concept of Servant Leadership. At the end of his book, he presents the idea of there being two focal points in learning and knowledge. Organization Structure.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2019

Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay “We are not agile enough”, she told me. If you work at a large company, or in a relatively traditional industry, you probably know the feeling: You are a big believer in agile and lean. I’ve seen even the smallest startups who are not as lean and agile in their approach as you would think.

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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. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership.

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