Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. .” Seeing things in practice.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Teams have another lever. Teams can get some feedback from one feature set to inform the next set—but that's not a primary lever. Then, the team (or whomever) creates an architecture. Once the team has an idea about the architecture, the team starts working on the highest priority feature or feature set.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. For example, just look at this recent job ad from PwC here in Sydney.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Poor questions yield little value. ?? Competitive analysis: “Blue ocean” (Kim, Mauborgne) Don’t get stuck into consulting matrixes. Build a community: “rosie.land” (Rosie Sherry) Until your product is ready you want your product team to engage with potential users in a valuable way. It’s full of examples. ??

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. Nothing beats meeting real users.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The bounce rate is the percentage of users who visit a page on your product (for example, your home page) and then leave it before taking any primary action, such as registration or starting a free demo. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

What do you call a process that has multiple complex steps, requires detailed explanation and dogmatic adherence to rigid tenets defined by expensive consultants? ” The entire thing makes me feel exhausted and locked into a process that doesn’t feel very agile. Let’s use meeting cadence as an example.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

You might feel weak. Or, you might worry your colleagues see you as weak or incompetent. For example, I'm short. Many of us know what that feels like as a technical team member. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. The teams didn't change how they worked.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. The team called the product people “product owners.” Neither did the developers. These developers had no built-in feedback mechanisms.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. In this example, competitive advantage. The perfect world does not exist, though.

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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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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So rent rent rent We’re in the Agile Devt software business rent rent build?  After all, we're smarter than other teams.   and then the next.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

In How to Predict When the Team Will Complete a Specific Backlog Item, Part 1 , I said there was no way to accurately predict an estimate for a specific backlog item more than a month away. By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. That's a prime example of resource efficiency , which does not work.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

The rollercoaster ride that is product development is inherently chaotic and ever-changing. Sure, there are semi-quantitative ways of estimating uncertainty for each assumption (for example, the RICE framework for prioritization), but as with many things in product development, these are guess-based models that help us to compare options.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

Shoot bad ideas down early: “ That’s a great idea, but it doesn’t align to the outcomes of this product, so I am not putting it on the backlog at this time”. It’s simply not good enough to just feel or think that something is a good or a bad idea. Bullet dodged! Justify Your Position. Don’t go rogue! Don’t Play Games, get Stuck in.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. Plot summary. Where to buy?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team. Your VP of CS?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. Consulting your symptoms with Google and finding out that you have one week left to live. What should be the KPIs for the data scientists’ teams? Should we be using agile methods?

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Role of the Product Owner According to the Scrum Guide “The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As I have worked with companies, departments, and teams to help them make more data-informed decisions, I have noticed that they usually fall into one of three categories: They fully integrate evidence-based decision-making into how they work. Over the last fifteen years, I have noticed a pattern. Now for supporting Settlers.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To get a sense of where these opportunities may lie, we asked our executive team to share five predictions on trends that will impact businesses in 2021. The need for targeted and scalable consulting will result in the rise of “super boutiques” The consulting industry has been irrevocably disrupted.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. The best books available can help you learn more about product management, collaboration, habits, remote teams, different methodologies, and more. Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ”  “Once product/engineering give us hard dates tied to exact feature definitions and use cases and Ideal Customer Profiles, Sales can form the right account-based selling teams.” 

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. The stages of product development Using six questions we can determine the primary role of both product and project managers concerning product development.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. Some roles require an MBA or relevant business/consulting experience. Identify Weaknesses Are you lacking skills for certain roles?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. Some roles require an MBA or relevant business/consulting experience. Identify Weaknesses Are you lacking skills for certain roles?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

ustwo pushed the traditional boundaries of the consultancy model, evolving beyond the paid for time agency model to build our own products such as Monument Valley, and pursuing venture-based ”ustwo pushed the traditional boundaries of the consultancy model, evolving beyond the paid for time agency model to build our own products.”

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