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. Scrum Team working independently of other teams is an ideal scenario.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . Continuously review your assumptions and find your blind spots.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2020

What high performing Product Teams actually look like This is something that comes up often for me?—?I They are all coming from an individual perspective, not a team one ?—?I’ll As a team you're now faced with a hard decision, do we start again or continue forward knowing that there is now a large gap? Who does what?” “But

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. Questions that help the developers discover and navigate conflicts between their individual values and Scrum values. What Does the Scrum Master Do All Day?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The construction and reconstruction of these pillars must be done continuously, in tandem, and requires effective dialog between all stakeholders in an organization. How do you define those pillars for your company and turn the metaphorical into the physical, and actually construct them?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. Be Faithful to Agile Principles. Create a team culture that fosters atmosphere of safety, transparency, and cooperation. Be Passionate.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. A product owner’s role tends to be more tactical, and they work with the scrum team to make the product manager’s plans a reality. It is also important that they can concentrate their focus on the development of the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

We have explored the topic of product portfolio management in previous episodes, but not from an Agile perspective. That is the topic for this episode – Agile portfolio management. He is also a Principle at SolutionsIQ, a firm that helps organizations adopt Agile practices. Agile emphasizes small intact teams.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 19, 2019

It means more firepower is required, as the current team (or lack thereof) is no longer able to adequately handle product management as is. This moment also represents an opportunity to determine what an ideal product team would look like. A key question here is: what is the ideal product team size?

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their way to good processes and collaboration, rather than “best practices” folks who believe there’s a fundamentally right way to do things. Is this leading to bad software, or just additional conversation?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. A lack of rigor in how we construct experiments creates many measurement problems.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. It sounds like good logic, but there are multiple challenges with building an MVP: Most teams over-engineer their MVP. This is natural.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). Strategies are more designs than they are decisions, i.e., they are more constructed than they are chosen (they are not to be confused with making plans/roadmaps).

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. Give your team the right tools to complete their work efficiently. It’s not the work itself.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

And by doing this, it becomes easy to ignore (or, just as bad, hide) problems in your code that inevitably appear over time. And we’ll provide a constructive alternative for dealing with your team’s technical debt. Technical debt is a natural part of all software development.) What is a Technical Debt Roadmap?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 18, 2024

Why do the most successful product managers always seem to pay attention to the power of a well-constructed NPS survey ? This approach helps businesses understand the evolving perceptions of their product, which is essential for strategic planning in product development and customer relationship management.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” As they work with several teams throughout the product’s development, being firm on goals and expectations will teach each team to expect direction. Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. The Reactive Product Manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 18, 2020

At Exponent , we've been operating as a remote team for most of the past year, with engineers, designers, and PMs spread across several time zones—not to mention thousands of users around the world who are part of our Slack community and Interview Practice forum. Product managers are translators, processors, and conduits of information.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

Smaller, younger firms are by nature more agile, and it’s easier to get change buy-in. But small teams also have less to lose. But when left to their own devices, early adopters can create some bad precedents. This can both create bad habits and turn people off to the tool before it’s spun up.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The team comprises one of the most important things in your work: these people surrounding you, and the relationship with them. This article will give some help on how to discuss design with a designer or team, based on the book by Aaron Irizarry and Adam Connor , Discussing Design. Constructive critique. Finding a consensus.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. The following is a framework that I use (loosely based on the Scaled Agile Framework ) to help navigate the strategy maze and to stay focused on influencing the appropriate stakeholders.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

That meant we had plenty of money to run experiments and invest in high-quality work, as well as in developing the next generation of creative talent. It’s a very “data poor” environment where the stakeholders you are engaged with themselves have a limited exposure or understanding of data. greatest strength and weakness.

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Modus Create

APRIL 9, 2019

Although at first glance this approach looks like monolithic software development – which has a deserved bad reputation, the Monorepo idea is not incompatible with modular software development practices. Managing code in one single repository can simplify the development of modular software in a big way.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

Do you empower small, agile teams? And I’m not saying that’s good or bad. But industry, as a construct, I think is a big blind spot. I’m saying if you’re looking out for those weak signals you can see them a lot more. Are there resources available for little bets? Upcoming Events.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

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. You get extra points if Agile story format is used!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2019

We’re going to go all inception on this and I’m going to present it in the way I often do when getting teams to do this for the first time?—?a What would usually happen is as a commander you would develop your initial plan, once done you will present it to a group, usually your commander, peers, other impacted parties and your team.

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eG Innovations

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A large spectrum of clients across verticals uses AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. Keys can be any string, and they can be constructed to mimic hierarchical attributes. While designed for developers for easier web-scale computing, it provides 99.99999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. I didn’t know if I wanted to be a librarian, but I wanted to bring librarianship to new settings, like this big information world we were constructing out of digital stuff. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop the idea.

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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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