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Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together

Mind the Product

The ideas of Agile are great. It’s the way it has been codified into rituals and certifications, and rolled out mindlessly that misses the point. Agile is related to Lean. In conditions of high uncertainty, Agile offers ways to build software that is dynamic and can adapt to change. Three mindsets of product development.

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381: Tactics for increasing the innovation capacity of your organization – with Kapil Kane

Product Innovation Educators

Integrating the advantages of large organizations and startups – for product managers. He is also the founder of GrowthX, a corporate startup accelerator. We came across startup accelerators that help startups by providing business coaching, lean startup methodologies, and mentors.

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. I went on being called a Business Analyst as I worked at banks and other financial services companies. I liked this name. It introduced the concept of a Product Owner.

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The Rise of Product Coaching

The Product Coalition

I’ve also witnessed several agile consultancies starting to adopt more product discovery work and seek out, what I would call, more product orientated Agile Coaches, those with a product management background over a project or IT development one. In my experience, the former is often the case for high growth startups.

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Want to be a Product Manager? Just get out There and Make Products

Mind the Product

Most of them are familiar with Agile theory and terminology. They have probably read one or more of “The Lean Startup”,”Inspired”, and “Thinking Fast and Slow” They can tell you about the products they love, and why. And almost none of them have ever made their own product.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

In the early 2000s we also got The Agile Manifesto, which was set to replace waterfall as the defacto method for building software products. It’s hard to say where Product Management would be today without agile, as it gave us so many of the tools which we use to build great digital products. Check out our certifications here.

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What Is The Spotify Model?

The Product Coalition

And you might even have heard of their innovative framework for organising teams and scaling products in agile. The Spotify model dates back to 2011 when Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson, at the behest of their colleagues, published a whitepaper: Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters, and Guilds.