Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Of course, there are feedback loops here, too: Notice that we expect feedback from later features back to the previous features. Opportunities for More Agility. Because we release every time we finish a feature set, we have these opportunities for agility: Re-rank the remaining feature sets. Part 5 Agile Approaches.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Explore our top-rated product management certification courses to become a successful software product manager: Software Product Manager Responsibilities Software product managers need to have a working knowledge of multiple things, including product management, project management, software development, and product marketing.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 15, 2019

After Mark Kilby and I collaborated on From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we decided to start creating online classes. We have just opened registration for our first geographically distributed agile teams class. See Prepare for Successful Distributed Agile Teams. It's a self-study class. Any questions?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager? ” (You might like Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master.). She's an agile project manager. When she manages programs, she's an agile program manager. See a ton more about this role in Create Your Successful Agile Project.) Scrum is not her job.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. That's not a project portfolio, but your budget reflects the decisions you think you're going to make over the course of the year. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Use the data you need to have a more agile approach.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Digital transformation fosters agility by enabling businesses to adapt quickly to changing market conditions, customer preferences, and new technologies. Vision & goals Now, chart your course.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons by Joel Marsh Don't be fooled by the bite-sized lessons—this book packs a punch. Based on Joel Marsh's popular UX Crash Course blog, covers the fundamentals of UX design in 100 concise, easy-to-digest chapters. How each book improves your UX design skills.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 21, 2018

Many medium to large organizations are adopting agile practices, such as the use of Scrum. companies using stage-gate, the idea of replacing it with agile is often not warmly embraced. Instead, a hybrid agile stage-gate process is a more reasonable place to start. 2:34] What is agile and what is stage-gate?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Eric, when he was raising money for his own startup, ran into investor Steve Blank who made Eric take his course on rapid-cycle product development as a pre-condition for Steve investing. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible. Learn as quickly as you can.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. I don’t find it useful in an agile project unless you use incremental funding. We had a blast. That’s me. I don’t see much.

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The content is based on these books: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. The course contains: Five templates. The course will help you organize and run a remote hiring process. The course will help you organize and run a remote hiring process. If you need to hire people, use this course to learn how.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

Organizations are expanding the scope of how they approach innovation, and product and user experience consultants have emerged as a powerful force in that initiative. Alpha teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York. How product consultants make an impact.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 4, 2020

A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. Of course, we cannot recreate two concentric circles of attendees facing each other. a half-sentence that the team members shall complete?

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

With no university degree course or global certification standards, most practitioners step into being a PM from areas like Engineering & Agile Operations. Making things even less straightforward is that each Product Manager will likely have a different combination of skills.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Follow Teresa on Twitter and LinkedIn , keep up to date with her at ProductTalk and her courses. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Follow Teresa on Twitter and LinkedIn , keep up to date with her at ProductTalk and her courses.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2019

It’s NOT about running a perfectly synchronized Agile process?—?Yes, Yes, Agile is a way of being more effective. Yet, if you yourself cannot focus on what truly matters, your perfectly synced Agile team might be very busy, but probably not effective. Founder of the productMBA and Startup CEO Course.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 12, 2016

And you know who has to actually go and make those new ideas happen – product managers of course. You can grow your skills and explore new aspects of product management (agile, anyone?) Boston Agile Product Open debuted in 2016. Reason #2: One of the highest concentrations of product managers anywhere. Wrapping it up in a bow.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

Add to that the agile revolution, which yanked product managers deep into the execution ( preparing a sprint every other week requires a lot of work! ), and you’ll see why two decades later the focus of product management had shifted. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. In early days, when many of the creators of these processes were working as consultants in companies, the Product Owner was the customer – an internal person in the business who would sit with the team and prioritize the backlog of work. Come join us!

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. And, great agile teams often have HR support near the team, if not part of the team. See Part 2.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

She leads her own consulting company, Omaya Robinson Consulting, which specialises in Product and Payments. Of course, there are myriad companies and agencies which can undertake customer research on your behalf. For innovative and digital products, she finds Agile more effective.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Book a consultation with us and let’s discuss your goals. Book a free consultation with us and let’s get to know each other! . And, of course, stand out from your competitors with it. Of course, via UX research. At UX studio, we always encourage an agile way of thinking and working.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Of course, your organization may look/behave very differently.    In my product leader courses, we talk through variations on C-suite messaging about urgent interrupts that use the language of money and high-level trade-offs : “We have a product strategy that the exec team has approved, and has shared with the Board.  

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Stating a list of wholesome qualities is easy, of course. Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example. Ask your ScrumMaster or agile coach to help you with this. How cool is that? Nothing beats meeting real users.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2020

Especially in the agile community, I see a lot of the same-old, same-old. The post Conferences Speakers and “Making Room” for Other Voices appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. And, I too often speak where I am the only woman or one of three women and the 97 other speakers are men.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” Adopting Agile methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , eXtreme Programming , or some combination of the above has been a trend, or some might say a craze, affecting digital product management for many years. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

And, if you're interested in exploring influence, please join me at the Influential Agile Leader. The post Insubordination vs Caring About the System appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Gotta say, I've tried that and had no results. I needed the sarcasm and eye-rolling to get the other person's attention.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

But building good enterprise systems is prone to failure, as author and product consultant Sam McAfee has recently pointed out. We found the tech team would reject deadlines, as in their view, they contradicted an agile approach. paying our suppliers for merchandise we bought from them). This was a big challenge for us.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2017

Why do we focus so much time and effort on digital transformation, agile transformation, and innovation? Simply put it’s because large organisations need to grow – and can’t. All of their current management practices optimise against anything new ever being successful.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Mostly I have been on the consulting side, meaning I have always had to hand over what I have built to someone else. Design, UX, Agile Have Already Done the Hard Work. The design, user experience, and agile communities have all evolved from a role and a skillset to something bigger. And product coaching is how we get there.

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