The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I identify as a coach and not a consultant. Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. This comes from the Agile Manifesto , reducing our batch sizes.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. A technical HiPPO, such as an architect or CTO, might overrule a design or architecture. The post When HiPPOs Use Their Power to Decide for Other People appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. Can they create an agile transformation?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. Think about Agile. Agile has become so complicated that it isn’t so agile anymore. Traditionally, the product function fell under Technology. More than 50% of Fortune 100 have a Chief Product Officer (CPO). There’s more.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Introduction Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate by increasing agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Serverless platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, automatically scale resources based on demand, providing agility and cost optimization. Book a free consult today.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Companies like Valerian Technology, with a focus on technology consulting and software architect services, play a pivotal role in this ecosystem, driving both innovation and economic prosperity. Future-Focused Technology: Staying ahead of the curve means keeping an eye on tomorrow.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. Every organization doing agile software development does it a little bit differently. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Try to think of the process as an agile development project. To learn more about Izenda’s embedded BI and reporting solution, contact a BI specialist today for a free consultation and demo. An appropriate stakeholder list for BI projects will likely include….

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It described my experience at Agile Partners when we got early hands-on with the original iPad at the Cupertino campus. Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. And did I mention that I learned HTML and CSS along the way?

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. “Agile doesn’t tell you to do anything that isn’t already obvious to most people,” says Paul. The icing on the cake? “And we’re delighted to say the least.”

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In honor of the recent passing of Gerald Weinberg, I’ll choose my favorite of his: The Secrets of Consulting. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting. Most influential book: There are many to choose from. (I I guess I’m easily influenced.) Good to Great by Jim Collins.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Startup founder?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

My goal has always been to positively impact the lives of people going through life-changing diseases whilst also forging the way for other female leaders in the technology industry.” ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. ” Sabah Zdanowska founder, ventures consulting. Moeller – Maersk.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. Agile development. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. We needed something that would scale with us today.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

Developing with an Agile approach , and managing your budget through scope control. To clean up the dataset, I removed design-only engagements, maintenance work, and projects that were strictly consulting. Instead, focus on a smaller set of functions, and use human-centered design principles to create a great user experience.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

For custom software development, I’ll want to see that my potential partner is using Agile methods of some kind and that I’ll be able to participate in sprint planning and review sessions if needed. The questions in this series are helpful for focusing conversations with sales consultants from potential partners.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. And that did me a great favor, that gave me like a great kickstart into this career.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Agile methodology is not an exact science. Watch The many flavours of Agile. Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. . I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. Watch Mental health: What you can do. 3 // Leadership. How do you lead well when disaster strikes your business?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

We don’t we’re not we don’t follow agile methodologies, we don’t follow a bunch of different ways of doing things. So there is discussion and other people involved in that discussion, we consult with other people and other people bring their ideas to us. We do things our own way, and shape up is our way.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

I was initially brought in as a freelance consultant by Simon Nelson, who had been recently appointed by the OU as CEO of its new venture. Many of these will probably be familiar to you from the agile manifesto but it required some convincing of a large traditional organisation like the OU. From Singer/Songwriter to Festival.

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