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. Perhaps you worked on a digital strategy or an IT system change.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Created Gantt charts even though the team worked in an agile way. Waited for other people to review his work. The managers reinforce people as experts, which is an example of resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. Too often, when we think of people as resources , we treat them that way. Want Engagement?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. out of 5 stars. Where to buy?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. A real breakthrough only happens when there is a focus on the critical issue at hand and when you concentrate resources and your talent pool to maximize your unique leverage in the market. Frederick Taylor is by no means the best source of wisdom for modern product or innovation managers.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 2, 2022

When I consult with a client with this problem, I ask this question of all the department heads: What one to three projects currently in flight will make the most difference for your department this in the next one to three months? I can do this as a consultant, and you might not if you work on the inside. Why such a short-term focus?

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

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. Our shorter services are Expert Review , UX Audit , and Product Discovery.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. The managers, as a team (up, down, sideways) changed the compensation system and what they measured. (Do The products were all larger than one team.).

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

It’s a change in approach that’s driven by demands for more agility and greater velocity from the time a problem is identified to the time that a product is released. . With a clickable prototype, an internal review board can see just how the finished product will look AND function. Choosing the Right Method.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

There are at least two systems of work we need to change: The management system and the culture of management. There might be more systems I don’t see yet. I wonder if the first thing is to understand the essential complexity of our current system. This is where looking at the system of work can help.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. It's time for performance reviews. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. The disconnect is not one piece—it's an entire system. What do we do?

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UX Studio: Product Management

MAY 13, 2024

For instance, if your designers are struggling to maintain a consistent design system due to a heavy design backlog, hiring a design system expert could be beneficial. Even if you have researchers on your team, consulting with experts can streamline the research process and ensure top-notch data governance.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Code Spaces had to shutter their doors after they had massive amounts of data wiped out due to a hack, and more often than not , small businesses go under after major cyber attacks. In the go-go environment of Agile , continuous delivery , and SaaS, code is getting cranked out and deployed faster than ever. Patches and updates.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Significant changes require time and resources. They would often prefer to devote resources to projects that align with their personal interests. Without ironclad, stakeholder buy-in, there will always be naysayers lobbying to divert those funds and resources to more favored projects that will bring in new customers or more cash.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We hear the term “Design Thinking” dropped so many times in the consulting world these days, we can’t even keep up with it. Design Thinking consulting. What constitutes Design Thinking consulting? We have some luck due to our user access and research in-house. Design Thinking consulting comes into the picture here.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We hear the term “Design Thinking” dropped so many times in the consulting world these days, we can’t even keep up with it. What constitutes Design Thinking consulting? We have some luck due to our user access and research in-house. Design Thinking consulting comes into the picture here. Apply Agile methodologies.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It provides the speed and efficiency mobile apps require for constantly changing products while maintaining the security and integrity of existing systems. This saves companies valuable time and resources. When a mParticle customer creates an event in their app, the events forward to Apptentive. Rightpoint. Watch the full video here.

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UX Studio

MAY 24, 2019

In this case study we’ll introduce the methods we used in our UX design process to make a complex system more user-friendly. In this project, we redesigned the information architecture of the cloud-based permission system for Hungary’s best-known architectural design software. Permission system of the teamwork platform.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You should also have a holistic understanding of what the project is going to cost internally, including marketing, ongoing support, executive time, opportunity cost of internal resources, etc. Digging into the old system’s features always uncovers details and corner cases that weren’t apparent at first (much like a fractal).

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 5, 2019

Most of the time, the IT department lurks quietly in the background, humming along supporting business systems and rarely attracting attention unless something’s gone wrong. Their approval or resources are required to complete the project. Line managers contributing resources to the project. Senior management. Operations.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

As a Product Manager you are then asked to plan timing, align resources and direct the engineering team to execute. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility. Remain aware of company culture while managing the product system to build social capital. That’s project management. These are your constraints.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Instead, the teams can review their cycle time. When I did the assessment, I asked people how long they thought fixing the build system would take. Here's the weekly cost of trying to continue to work with a broken build system: 300 teams * $18,000 team cost/week = $5.4 Teams cannot predict that work. Why did I believe them?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Deadline and Unclear Scope vs. Agile: Project Challenges We Faced When starting a new project, its manager, obviously, needs to carefully map all the steps, from project planning to its release, and even further. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 14, 2023

We saw first-hand just how important agility is when reacting to massive disruption. But what is Business Transformation and how does it relate to, and differ from, other transformations like digital, product, and Agile? One, our CEO and CIO have said getting Agile right is our top priority as a company. a pandemic.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2020

Company A is working on its umpteenth “agile transformation.” One of the big problems is that the managers think agile approaches will give them faster delivery. These teams cooperate mostly through code review. They do a pretty good job of code review—when they do the review. They understood.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

Consulting your symptoms with Google and finding out that you have one week left to live. Should we be using agile methods? Due to the nature of data we had, in some cases, the prediction was based on a relatively small data set. Don’t underestimate this part, it’s crucial for success and it requires resources (time + people).

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The timesheet was due on Friday at 2pm. I was working in resource efficiency. In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. Project 3: Review for Rick. Ticket Systems Try to Track State Changes. That's why ticketing systems don't reflect reality, either.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each  There are no secret resources or hidden teams or magic agile improvements or underutilized developers.  Very

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

When working with external “corporate strategy” consultants, I found the level of strategic work to be all over the place ranging from high level M&A recommendations to low level project management / implementation support, driven by the functional strategy of whoever was paying the consultant.

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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?’ Upcoming Events.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So you can think of yourself as almost, like, a McKinsey or a BCG consultant that’s coming in and playing the role of the business strategist, trying to see around corners and anticipate what the market might want. ” Right?

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Then, we have monthly reviews of what we’re shipping and reflect on whether we’re hitting our goals. Our customer partners are Amplitude users that we consult with regularly and work closely and collaboratively with each other. To make the feedback actionable, we need a system for collecting and tracking it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

As Kim Garst states in her quote, the fundamental principle to win first reference customers in the mainstream market is to target a specific niche market as your point of attack and focus all your resources on achieving the dominant leadership position in that segment as quickly as possible. Harvard Business Review, January, 1980. (2)

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

In an Agile world full of cloud-based solutions, there’s no shrink-wrapped container full of widgets that truly signifies completion. While the particulars vary from organization, a typical definition of done consists of a checklist containing items such as: Code is peer reviewed. Are we there yet? Code is checked in.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This move, that many are saying has been ‘the writing on the wall’ for Server products for some time, allows Atlassian (and their Partners) to further unify their resources to build the best products and services to support their clients. Modus Create consultants are experts in migration from Server to Cloud or to Data Center.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Agile development teams think about productivity in terms of overall velocity metrics and backlog/roadmap commitment. Sales needs Product and Engineering to review these ASAP. If Deutsche Bank might license our consumer credit scoring system for $1.2M/year We’re clear about when outside resources would help.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Even if a 5 to 7-person team falls into the Everyone Starts Their Own Story trap (see Who’s Playing Agile Schedule Games? or Create Your Successful Agile Project ), the team can still know what's going on. Then, I watched Drunk Agile Episode 75: Team Size. But a team of 12-15 people? The WIP increases dramatically. I was wrong.

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