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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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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

learn more about the numerous product discovery anti-patterns that can manifest themselves when you try to fill Scrum’s product discovery void. ?? 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

Most people who order my classes are in that situation, and when they come to me for product owner training, they come with a couple of myths. Myth: Product management is taught in product ownership classes One of them is that in the product owner class we teach about product management.

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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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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. Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ??

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Once the product team gets 40% of the interviewed customers to vote for “very disappointed,” then there is a good chance that the product is on its way towards sustainable and scalable growth. The magic number 40% was taken after the comparison of results from hundreds of startups who run this test.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Project managers are responsible for executing the plans handed off from product management. On top of that, project managers must continually communicate status to stakeholders. Comparison shopping is the responsible thing to do. It has become the “default” for many Agile teams over the years for a good reason.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful.

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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. To clarify, OKR is not a skill that can be learnt (unlike other critical product management skills ), it is simply a style of functioning. Conclusion.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 5, 2020

Here is the full list of essential team management qualities. Listen First, Talk Later Develop Leadership Skills Influence Without Authority KISS Principle We Before Me Use Management Tools Stay Agile Guide Your Team To Replace You Empathize Always Firmly Support Your Team Communication Skills. Stay Agile. Conclusion.

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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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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2003, Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach by Leffingwell and Widrig (p.101) Scaled Agile shares a narrative, free-form approach (figure 4) for problem statement writing. Ad hoc narrative structure doesn’t help, so I don’t encourage product managers to use it. In practice, it does not.”

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Want to streamline and automate product management tasks to focus on important positioning strategies? Book a Userpilot demo to see how you can improve your product success. What is product positioning? This will help you identify gaps in the market and position your product to capitalize on these opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Product Discovery Essentials The essentials to running a successful Product Discovery are as follows Product Discovery Essentials Assemble your team: The product discovery isn’t done in solitude, and consists of the Product Manager, the Designer, the Engineer and a few others.

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svpg

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In other words, it requires being agile (that’s agile with a small “a”). Perhaps you are implementing a process of dual-track agile and continuous discovery. A dedicated product manager, UX designer and lead developer are usually critical, and depending on your goals there will likely be additional roles.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In waterfall project management, project managers report on their progress at the end of each of the key stages, like initiation, planning, or execution. This is how Agile teams work. If the objectives are delivered in tranches or increments, there could also be a review at the end of each delivery.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Output-Based Planning.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement Agile turns into micromanagement as a result of the middle management’s resistance to change. Self-organizing, empowered teams often conflict with the middle management’s drive to execute personal agendas, self-preservation being one of them. be it tech or legacy.

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Userpilot

APRIL 1, 2022

What does the SaaS product localization process involve? How can product managers prepare products for expansion into other markets? Product localization makes the product accessible to users in foreign markets with different languages and cultures. Software localization release agility.

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Gainsight

JUNE 20, 2019

Product analytics is a necessary part of modern product management. As agile working environments grow increasingly popular, product managers find themselves facing new challenges such as: Staying competitive in a constantly-shifting landscape. Comparisons. Product Breakdowns. Case Studies.

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Actuation Consulting

JULY 30, 2018

Complex products can include twice that many feature comparisons. Remember this is a qualitative comparison. Build the product the market wants no matter what you see competitors doing. Advancing the Profession of Product Management. A Competitive Analysis Matrix is usually presented in a spreadsheet format.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. Price comparison tools often didn’t work. Let’s explore some top picks in this category.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 11, 2023

Mockups A mockup is a realistic visual representation of a product. In manufacturing, a mockup can be a scale or full-size, physical model of the product. In digital product management, a mockup will be a detailed depiction of the app. Mockups don’t include product functionality.

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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.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The scaling SaaS company often have to find out through practice what the difference is between a product owner vs product manager. Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. But there is a general consensus on the definitions for product owner and product manager.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

IDEO partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation to reduce food waste, Toronto Pearson Airport to develop an agility mindset and deliver exceptional services at Canada’s busiest airport, and the Gates Foundation to develop better classroom technologies. A comparison might reveal untapped opportunities which you did not know before. .

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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. So let’s talk about mini-research.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 3, 2018

As a product consultant and founder of a product school, Melissa has trained over 2,000 PMs across her career. And her mission has always been clear-cut: teach people how to effectively think like a product manager. Melissa: So, Product Institute is an online school for product managers to level up their skills.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Each department wants to hire in its own image.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

On the other hand, working with Job Sizes is not the way to go in an agile environment. The conclusion of agile work is that you shouldn’t estimate too early in detail, because there is too much uncertainty within the backlog topics (epics/stories, etc.). Instead we have to find iterative ways through the jungle.

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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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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 Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile ). ?? By comparison to this dopamine fix , checking how someone else solved another problem during code review is less rewarding. There is no such thing as an agile Nirwana where everything is just perfect. 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns Why Engineers Despise Agile. ?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

(If the Product Owner identified a unifying Sprint Goal, for example, integrating a new payment method, and the management then abandons that payment method mid-sprint, continuing working on the Sprint Goal would be a waste. In this case, the Product Owner should consider canceling the sprint.) Product Owner Anti-Patterns?—?31+2

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

By comparison to this dopamine fix , checking how someone else solved another problem during code review is less rewarding. There is no such thing as an agile Nirwana where everything is just perfect. As people say: becoming agile is a journey, not a destination, and there is always something to improve.)

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