Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I’ve been pair-writing a book with Mark Kilby , From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. This is both a strength and weakness. It’s a weakness because I might stomp on the other person. We hit a big milestone today: We published the first complete draft today.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development. And I don't want to return to the bad old days—I much prefer where we are now.

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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. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. Seeing things in practice.

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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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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

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Which levers does your team need to manage risk in your project? And, teams can combine any of these options in their own iterative and incremental lifecycle. Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. You might not have the time.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

Your team says they use Scrum in two-week iterations. Clare was convinced her team didn't estimate well. Here's how Clare's team worked: Every person started their own story. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). The developers were pretty accurate for their work time. The team chose to swarm first.

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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. Seek expert guidance from consultants or technology providers.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Competitive analysis: “Blue ocean” (Kim, Mauborgne) Don’t get stuck into consulting matrixes. Work with engineers: “Agile Product Management with Scrum” (Roman Pichler) There are zillions ways to apply scrum.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch. Enter GIST.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Scribe Product Owner A scribe is like a really poor waiter in a restaurant. A scribe just takes your order regardless, of whether it’s a good or a bad idea, they don’t add any value. Myth: Product management is taught in product ownership classes One of them is that in the product owner class we teach about product management.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps  Are fellow employees offended when I decline meeting requests?

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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. Many of us know what that feels like as a technical team member. But I'm going to talk about a manager. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. The teams didn't change how they worked.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” with this focus. with this focus.

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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. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be? 

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. Rafayel Mkrtchyan is a product management consultant who helps companies improve their product discovery and delivery processes. If you enjoyed this article, please hit that clap button to help others find it.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 21, 2018

How product managers can turn a marathon into a sprint. Many medium to large organizations are adopting agile practices, such as the use of Scrum. Most of these organizations are also using some form of stage-gate for the development of new products. Instead, a hybrid agile stage-gate process is a more reasonable place to start.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

” The tester said, “If the developers didn't put so many problems in, we'd be done by now.” ” The developer said, “If you didn't pressure me so much, I could have done a better job.” That's because product development is a system of work. Years ago, I wrote The Influential Test Manager.

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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. ” However, as the teams work together and explore the product, they assume they can decide on the designs and architecture. Product leaders assume they can plan and replan the product backlog, based on the team's learning.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. I’m exaggerating, of course.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. The managers didn't understand. 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.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Product vs Project Management?—?Batman 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. Product and Project Management?—?two In contrast, a project manager focusses on the how and the when.

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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? rent rent rent rent We’re in the HR software business rent build? " issues.  CRMs

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Do you lead a new product management team? What is the role of senior leadership, particularly the head of product management? Executive teams are dabbling in product and portfolio prioritization while product managers are trying to determine (or guess) the product strategy. What is the product manager’s role?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

Product managers are meant to be many things – visionaries, decision makers, leaders and much more. Negotiation is rarely mentioned outside an interview for a product manager – yet, in reality, being a product manager is a role that demands good political judgement. It’s all about setting and managing expectations.

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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. That was my first real product management role. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

The rollercoaster ride that is product development is inherently chaotic and ever-changing. So, as process-oriented professionals, we product managers look to the structure and predictability of a scientific approach for certainty. This is where the support of an agile, learning organization is an incredible benefit.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

But what are the skills every product manager must know? Beyond some core competencies, most PM roles require a highly variable combination of four major skill-sets: The primary competencies of Product Management. Some roles require an MBA or relevant business/consulting experience. PM roles vary a lot.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

He is working in the capacity of a technical consultant in his current assignment in Bangalore, India. His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. He was curious to understand how I could manage to succeed as a Scrum Master without strong domain knowledge.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

But what are the skills every product manager must know? Beyond some core competencies, most PM roles require a highly variable combination of four major skill-sets: The primary competencies of Product Management. Some roles require an MBA or relevant business/consulting experience. PM roles vary a lot.

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