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. Meet teams throughout Uber, and collaborate with them to adapt their features and plans for business travellers.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Often, a roadmap that didn't look like commitments. 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. I don't meet many teams who are self-sufficient.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The faster the team (the shortest blue feedback loops) releases a feature, the more often we can change the roadmap (in red) and the strategy (in green). Then, explain that they don't have to meet with you for a long time, but they do need to meet with you frequently. Or change the project portfolio more often?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. When people outside of technology use agile approaches, they can start their work before the product is done. When you assess the milestone criteria on a regular basis, you might learn early that you will not meet the criteria by the date you want.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Nothing beats meeting real users. 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. As a rule of thumb, make sure you get out of the building at least once every three months. But that’s not all.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) How is it possible these people have such different experiences than I do? That does work.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

Peter is an experienced speaker, educator, and consultant with over 40 years of experience leading teams and organizations to deliver value through projects. We had a project to customize a telephone billing system to meet a company’s unique needs for their customer and then to install it for them to create the telephone bills.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. A global consulting firm built for the 2020s, Kin + Carta helps make the journey to becoming a digital business as profitable, tangible and sustainable as possible.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You may or may not have all the outputs listed in the Discovery Playbook but hopefully you have a good justification that there is a market for your product/feature, verification that the solution meets the key outcome you are trying to achieve, and at least a high-level understanding of: The problem and/or the Jobs-To-Be-Done?—?these

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

It’s there to be a guide and a tool that helps your team strategically plan and prioritize your product roadmap to ensure your tracking successfully towards both short and long term goals. The post 4 Development Pitfalls to Avoid with an Agile Growth Strategy appeared first on Mixpanel. Little Focus on Actual Use Cases.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

She leads her own consulting company, Omaya Robinson Consulting, which specialises in Product and Payments. It often results in a situation where people are saying what they think others want to hear in order to meet their own KPIs.”. For innovative and digital products, she finds Agile more effective.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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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! . For an early-stage product definition and MVP, the very first step should always be to create a strategic UX/UI design roadmap. The main advantage of any agile method is constant iteration.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2018

In this episode you’ll learn about some of the big ideas in product management to help you make the move to product master, specifically: The difference between building the product right vs. building the right product, Challenges of working with development teams, How to assemble a roadmap, Release planning, and. Product roadmap.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When the Board meeting is next week, they need to have their story straight right now. Will they improve your CS practice at the pace you need to meet your NRR & valuation goals? These other teams sometimes have the skills to be true thought partners and business consultants, taking that pressure off of CS leadership.

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Centercode

JANUARY 22, 2021

A perfected product isn’t a perfect product, but it: Meets design requirements. But they’ve invested so much time and energy into continuing customer research and testing that their roadmaps align with where their customers are naturally headed. A perfected product works the way it’s supposed to.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Meet the mentors…. He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. The place to see the roadmaps for the longer term. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. They don't have a program manager (as in Agile and Lean Program Management ). When the project managers looked at their cycle time, they explained that the roadmaps had more features than they could finish in a year.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 We look at their chock-a-block schedules, and talk about the struggle to address important things when faced with 7+ hours/day of meetings.  We  Are fellow employees offended when I decline meeting requests? for body breaks, hoping that no one will notice It’s also bound up in company culture.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2018

Removing distractions included things like spending less time on Twitter and being more discerning about which meetings I would attend. If a meeting didn’t look like it would add value, I wouldn’t go. Or if I went to a meeting and it was clear it wasn’t useful, I would leave. Was I more efficient? The answer was a resounding no.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Meet the mentors…. He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Each major release deadline created a high pressure environment with engineers working overtime in the weeks prior in order to meet delivery dates.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

A product manager’s responsibilities include evaluating ideas, setting product strategy, building and sharing product roadmaps, prioritizing features and documenting requirements, defining product releases, and analyzing and reporting on progress. Building and sharing strategic roadmaps. Sample product roadmap from roadmunk.com.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). Strategies are more designs than they are decisions, i.e., they are more constructed than they are chosen (they are not to be confused with making plans/roadmaps).

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

A website that reflects their brand and meets the expectations of their target audience is just an example. USA; Europe $70 – $90 / hr Website design, UI/UX design, Research, Website Audit, Mobile App Design, Consulting, Expert Review Studio 22 Design Studio 22 Design is a creative design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9%

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

How to Schedule Customer Discovery Meetings Talking to customers doesn't necessarily mean inviting them to the office for a focus group. It's likely you'll be invited to many meetings in your first weeks at your new company. They should be the center of your attention when you start a new role.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. Note: data-informed does not mean you don’t create broad-stroke plans, such as roadmaps and gross estimates. If we use agile approaches, does that mean we never have a target?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I gained two benefits: releasing a complete book, and taking the time off from the consulting book to decide what I wanted to say. I'm now able to finish the consulting book. My consulting book had the same product problems as many of my clients have: The product in our head is not what our customers need or see.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Too often, we measure them by meeting a date for a given project. Product managers manage the product roadmaps. We understand how agile approaches help teams work better.

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