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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. Monthly or bi-monthly to get the most business agility, assuming your teams can deliver at least once a week. Quarterly if your context doesn't change that much.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. But I’ve consulted for a long time. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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Ship Decisions: Use Value to Decide When to Experiment and When to Finalize

Johanna Rothman

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product. That feedback arises from my writing, speaking, and consulting. I use that feedback to build more MVPs.

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Product Management Roles: Whose Job is it? [+Webinar]

280 Group

In working with your engineering teams, your company is likely to be moving toward (or already using) Agile development methodologies. You can think of the differentiation as “inbound” vs. “outbound.”. Ken Kranseler is a Principal Consultant and Trainer at 280 Group. Engineering/Development teams. REGISTER NOW. About the Author.

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In Honor of Product Management Day, Here’s a History Lesson—and an Offer You Can’t Refuse

280 Group

After coming to a conclusion about what a product will be and how it will answer a market need, the Product Manager works closely with the Product Development team to determine what features will not only make the product differentiated and marketable, but are feasible to develop. GET STARTED. Starting at. GET STARTED. Starting at.