Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Common Anti-patterns for Metrics in Agile.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. In many ways, product managers are like movie directors. ???? What is Product Management?

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

Product managers are rapidly advancing their skills, and as a result, the industry as a whole has had to level-up to compete as the world’s biggest brands continue to adopt a mobile-first approach. We’ve written a lot—and I mean A LOT—of content focused around mobile product management. What Is Mobile Product Management?

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Tyner Blain

JULY 9, 2013

There are several ways to answer the question “is agile cheaper than waterfall?” Agile done well is cheaper, as long as you measure correctly.” The right question is: is agile better?” ” How Agile Is NOT Cheaper. The fun thing about relative terms is that you have to do a comparison.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. It is not a mere management role. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 100 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. and the discipline?—?to to defend it at all costs. ??

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

Sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content in the field of project management. Especially when looking at the tool-side of project management. With Jira and Trello – we looked at two major project management tools, their benefits and drawbacks and most importantly their main differences.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Management aspects are missing that are relevant for internal projects as well as software development and other product developments. On the other hand, working with Job Sizes is not the way to go in an agile environment. So be prepared to use this prioritization as an indicator and not as a planning forecast for the management.

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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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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the agile software development world, the most popular methods measure effort as story-points , t-shirt sizes or strive for similarly-sized work items. As Product Managers, these scales are usually good enough to help us with point #1 (cost comparisons between different work items.). Our current toolset. A simple process.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much? Product Management Skills.

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All About Product Management

APRIL 3, 2007

Comparisons have been drawn between Prince 2 Project Managers and ScrumMasters. Much has been written about agile software development Vs waterfall with a focus on the developers and testers who actually carry out the technical work. Product Management by its very nature calls for agility.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Many product managers, including me, don’t always know if their work will lead to the desired outcome. As each item is always scored relatively higher or lower in comparison to other items on the list, single items will rarely receive the same score. Comparing prioritization methods 1. Won’t have items clearly out of scope.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 6, 2020

Every Product Manager and Project Manager should compare and check which tool is better for your startups. Product Management Tools – Asana vs Trello. To get a comprehensive view of the tools available in product management or project management, check out the list of the top 10 PM tools. Trello Review.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 4, 2020

Top 5 must know Agile vs Waterfall major differences. Understanding these is necessary for any Product Manager, irrespective of the method you follow. Agile vs Waterfall is not as common a debate as Scrum vs Kanban. So, whether you are a Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, etc., Agile vs Waterfall.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Development: Frontend, backend, API integration, agile sprints. The vendor managed cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and security certifications, delivering a turnkey solution within budget. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. Both managers and developers should be familiar with the specificity of working with banking products and understand how to organize work with clients in a way that ensures results, without wasting time.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We started the process of creating a new app for cab drivers by collecting requirements from both business managers and cab drivers (our end users). Presenting wireframes to managers and end users dispelled their doubts about how features would work. Comparison between main screens from the old app (left) and new mobile app (right).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Hands-on Agile #30: Making Your Scrum Work?—?The just to name a few.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sometimes they did still need to do alignment offline, but they manage that themselves because the biggest job of a product owner is to connect with stakeholders and manage their expectations in relation to uncertainty and basically say no to a lot of things and say, you might get these things. What’s our vision? Thank you.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 29, 2020

The eagerly anticipated 14th Annual State of Agile Report was published earlier this week, and like previous publications, there are some fantastic insights. Benefits of Agile. The top benefits of adopting Agile in this report are fairly consistent with recent years. Rate of Adoption – A Decade(ish) Comparison.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product Manager and Product Owner: One Person or Two? As more organizations adopt and look to optimize agile development approaches, one of the questions that is most pressing relates to roles and responsibilities — specifically, about how the role of product owner compares to the role of product manager.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. The product management process is a set of steps taking the project from the initial concept to the final product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This article explores: What progress reports are Why they’re important in product and project management How to develop robust reports Best practices for writing them Let’s dive in! Project management and analytics tools allow you to automate the process of project creation. This is how Agile teams work.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Online review tools : Tools that help you collect, manage, and showcase customer reviews to build credibility and enhance your online reputation. Feedback management tools : Apps for organizing, categorizing, and analyzing feedback from multiple sources to guide decision-making and product development.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts. ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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svpg

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In my experience with product teams, there’s simply no comparison between the morale, speed and most importantly, the results, of a team of missionaries as compared with a team of mercenaries. For example, a few people have asked me about SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). So why don't more companies get this? So how do you change?

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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. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

The magic number 40% was taken after the comparison of results from hundreds of startups who run this test. Startups that received at least 40% of their customer responses as “very disappointed” managed to build high-growth business models. Whereas, startups that got their results below 40% had issues with sustainability.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 4, 2020

My previous post focused on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “The Agile C-Suite” 1. . The title sets up the obvious–Agile isn’t new, but having C-suite level executives embrace it is. This myopic view of Agile has been an impediment to organizational and business adoption. . Denning’s Laws of Agile.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 5, 2020

The art of effective team management is not learnt overnight. But, the good thing is that great team management is not difficult, it just requires practice. Team Management Essential Skills. There are a few skills that are absolutely essential for team management. Team Management Skills – Detailed.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on. 25 mini-research ideas for inspiration 25 mini-research ideas for product managers 1.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product Manager and Product Owner: One Person or Two? As more organizations adopt and look to optimize agile development approaches, one of the questions that is most pressing relates to roles and responsibilities — specifically, about how the role of product owner compares to the role of product manager.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

I didn’t actually do the comparison of the pages myself. This is extremely important with Agile development methodologies where software is developed incrementally and there is a constant potential that adding new features could break existing ones. Sometimes tests are written in test management software first and executed later.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy Organizations Regularly, InfoQ applies the ‘ Crossing the Chasm ’ metaphor to engineering practices, thus covering a part of the agile movement to create learning organizations.

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