Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. Agile Process Constraints. Last but not least, most digital products are developed using an agile development framework like Scrum or Kanban.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 18, 2021

As teams learn how to work in new ways during an Agile transformation, an organization may consider adopting Agile values in departments outside of IT to support the initiative. In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s? In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Figure 4: A Framework to Offer Constructive Feedback The framework encourages you to take six steps to address and correct an issue. The role might be called Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. [5] 6] For more advice on offering feedback and applying my framework, see the article How to Offer Constructive Feedback.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication: Be able to effectively practise active listening and offer honest but constructive feedback to help people meet agreed goals. Empathising: Understand other people’s feelings and needs and take the perspective of another person even if you dislike or disagree with them. See Peter G. See Peter G.

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Product Management University

JUNE 12, 2017

Some days it feels like Agile frameworks are dictating how product management is done. On the other hand, when product management and Agile are 100% complementary, the end result is solutions that make customers better at whatever they do. . Let’s call a spade a spade – Agile is not a product management framework.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. However, software product development is not construction. Even when we use a non-agile approach , schedule variance doesn't make sense. Several of my clients struggle with their deadlines. Why do you have deadlines?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

An agile development team should take full ownership of their work. But it also means learning to effectively collaborate, constructively deal with conflicts , and make joint decisions. Offer constructive feedback, address issues and concerns, and help resolve them. Encourage Self-organisation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

Education, academics, and financial services lead the way in transitioning to remote work, while food service, retail, and construction were the lowest adopters. Respondents cited a need for a flexible, agile, entrepreneurial mindset. Remote working does not extend equally to all industries. 14:21] Flexible culture necessary to thrive.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Use Lean Startup practices and be as Agile as you need to be in each learning phase—the customer value preposition, the business model, and the model to scale. Practices like these make existing functions work constructively with the innovation team. They’re not used to going wherever the customer tells them to go.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Also, there’s nothing wrong with the agile manifesto of course. But you will end up with an unstable construct of agilised teams but an overall conventional organisation. Because thinking and acting agile and lean is mainly a mindset and nothing you implement like a new time booking system. So agile and lean are two major keys.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . Rapid learning and course correction is a key part of an agile decision-making process. The final stage of an effective, quick decision-making process is developing a constructive, actionable feedback loop.

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Userzoom

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is a guide for UX and research practitioners who have either newly joined an organization that’s using the Agile methodology, or their current product development is adopting Agile for the first time and they’ve been told to “make UX research happen in this new fangled process immediately please!” . What are the benefits of Agile?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. By and large, however, the two most popular for today's organizations are the Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. Without and further delay, let's look at two of the most common: Waterfall and Agile.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

If you are concerned about the sprint progress, then say so in a honest but constructive way. Initially, it was an open meeting, but only development team members and ScrumMaster were allowed to talk (see Agile Software Development with Scrum ). Do not tell the team what to do. Over the years, the definition of the meeting has changed.

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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. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Learn more on Retrospectives.)

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem Today we welcome Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. What brought you to ‘agile?’ “ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. He sold solutions, I developed them.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A properly constructed value proposition is extremely compelling to prospects. It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. .” I’m sure you’ve heard this term. Here are a few of my favorites: Stack ranking.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 14, 2017

12PM ET Strategy in an Agile Environment with Chris Butler The team makes progress sprint-over-sprint, but how do they know if you are always headed the right direction? Strategy for agile teams is about how they link the high level decisions that leaders make with the day-to-day actions that team members make. @

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe ® is the most popular and far-reaching of the Agile scaling frameworks out there. Scaled Agile Framework is prescriptive! The documentation available at Scaled Agile clearly highlights this dynamic. . Scaled Agile Framework is heavyweight. Scaled Agile Framework is RUP.

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Pragmatic Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2014

We still spend time writing thick marketing plans, constructing yearly budgets, launching big-bang ad campaigns and targeting broad audiences (instead of having conversations with people). Some marketers, including myself, are taking a different approach—one based on agile development. What Is Agile Marketing?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. For example, organizations moving to an agile development process may have greater uncertainty over a longer period. If you’re an agile organization and you’re working in epics and stories,the roadmap should be at that epic level. But there are some caveats.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Participating in this process can be difficult: it requires that people tolerate ambiguity, constructively deal with conflict, let go of their own ideas, and embrace someone else’s suggestion. A technique commonly used on an agile teams is the fist of five. With your scale in place, ask everyone to express how much they agree.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. You might work for one of these companies and they want to use an agile approach.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2018

People are openly hostile to suggestions and new pieces of work – often jumping over each other to poke holes in other people’s work, and barely trying to mask it as constructive criticism. Conflict can be mined and used constructively by those who understand it. What Does Being Good at Conflict Look Like?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

FTE for full-time Equivalent (as in human beings!) “Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility. Pregnancy to explain the indivisibleness of some work.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. I have always regarded the Scrum product owner as an agile product manager, and I find it an unfortunate mistake that SAFe use the same name for its tactical product role. This has created more confusion and increased the misconceptions of the role.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe ® is the most popular and far-reaching of the Agile scaling frameworks out there. Scaled Agile Framework is prescriptive! The documentation available at Scaled Agile clearly highlights this dynamic. . Scaled Agile Framework is heavyweight. Scaled Agile Framework is RUP.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The only constructive byproduct is a learning experience worth communicating to save other products from succumbing to the same mistakes. Moreover, regardless of the delivery methodology (waterfall, agile, pseudo-agile, SAFe etc.)

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Agile, discovery, experimentation have all become embedded in what we do. I have even met product teams who define their mission as being “exemplary at agile” in their organisation. Agile is not a strategy. Let’s dive a little deeper. The Framework Fanatics. And why is the most important question.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

Once upon a time, I thought writing a good set of agile user stories with specific Given/When/Then acceptance criteria was the most important part of a product person’s job. Every time I was presented with a new initiative, I rushed to expand it into a set of standard agile stories using the template : As a _, I want so that _.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

Be Faithful to Agile Principles. Given that some of the major triggers for patients with asthma are weather-related, their simple construct was to link real-time weather data with the patient in a bid to prevent asthma attacks. It’s OK to improvise without knowing where this will take you.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 1, 2016

Check out the quick and easy way to construct user stories at [link]. New Podcast Episode: TEI 078: Traditional vs Agile project management for product managers–with Chuck Cobb. More credit goes to the chemist, who had to do the work on her own time but had access to company resources. Read the story at [link].

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

For example, Mary had led a successful capital campaign to fund the construction of a new community center. She read extensively about agile development, lean startup principles, and design thinking, seeking to understand how these concepts could be applied to her work.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Feedback loops are a key part of working in an Agile way. Creating a feedback rich environment is a responsibility of the full team, and is a integral element in having a high performance Agile team. It’s a loving thing to do to give generous, constructive feedback.” . “I have some critical feedback for you that I’d like share.

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