Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. by Kate Leto, Product Consultant. Product Leadership.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Chris Butler Product Management Consultant.

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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.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Any agile practitioner may recognize these as poor practices and it is surprising how easily a team can succumb when operating in a high pressure, reactive environment. Now that the team has a metric to turn to the team can engage in further experiments to refine and tweak the software development process.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A client wants to know how best to calculate their software capitalization. They've started to use agile approaches. There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team.

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Product Management University

JUNE 20, 2017

In the world of agile software development, the product manager vs product owner confusion is hardly new. This problem has existed as long as software and product managers have been around. Traditional or agile, it’s necessary regardless of who does it, their title or how it gets done. It merely has a new name.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The world of consulting is often associated with truckloads of jargon. Today, let’s simplify one such concept – digital transformation consulting. What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Are the Four Areas of Digital Transformation Consulting?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Chris Butler Product Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Preston Smith and Don Reinertsen published Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools in 1998.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of Barry’s consulting work comes from Fortune 500 companies or from heavily funded scaling startups in San Francisco and around the globe. He adds: “Thoughtworks had a real pedigree, they were pioneering continuous delivery, there were people like Martin Fowler who helped to write the Agile Manifesto based there.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Agile Movers & Shakers: Diana Larsen’s Questionnaire Please describe what you do in 280 characters : “On my best days, I contribute to the growing and strengthening the practices of agile coaches and teams through as many channels as possible.” What brought you to ‘agile?’ “In Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Holly Vezina, Director of Product at APR Consulting. Our moderator, Shaughnessy Speirs, has been a product manager in several software organizations with depth in agile software development and business analysis. Holly Vezina, Director of Product at APR Consulting. Jenn Dearth, Product at Stedi.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2022

However, not all of them understand the idea of an overloaded operator in software development terms. I use “agile” and “agile approach” in my writing. I use “agile” and “agile approach” in my writing. My title confused some of my ideal readers. Not confused.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Historically, jobs in investment banking or management consulting have been the popular choice for MBA graduates in the US. In fact, in product management has surpassed consultant as the most popular job among US MBA graduates. Joni is a product management consultant and coach with 30 years of experience. “I

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The Product Bistro

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In a nutshell, it is how the pervasive confluence of cloud computing, big data and analytics, the rise of software, and rapid development are all coming together to greatly disrupt the organization. In my prior life in software product management, I was an integral part of the development effort, as a product manager.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. In this post, I will tell you about the 7 most used software testing approaches and how you can use them to become a better software developer. Because I learned it the hard way. Black-box testing.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

The product developer creates a technical specification that fully describes how the functional specification will be implemented. Every company and every consultant has a laundry list of acronyms for the documents that must be produced: BRD, MRD, PRD, SRS. Agile is happening. No wonder developers were frustrated.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Chris Butler Product Management Consultant.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Published in March 2004, Inmates was one of the first books published that strongly called out the the insane usability problems with most software tools at the time. I spent a few years working as a consulting Product Manager at Pivotal Labs. XP stands for Extreme Programming, which is another way to think about agile development.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2021

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, we discussed the fact that we no longer needed physical face-to-face interactions. High-fidelity virtual interactions didn't exist when the guys got together at Snowbird to write the Agile Manifesto for Software Development.). What do you think?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

In the worst case, people get fed up with trying to get hold of you or waiting for an answer and stop consulting you. But recognise that software development can be challenging and that human beings make mistakes. If you are not available or difficult to reach, you are not guiding the team. Learn More.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Usually, we find that the challenge of becoming agile is way larger than most companies like to admit. The task had been set, and we were expected to become an Agile organization in no time.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off. In the meantime, at the start of the software development project you have to be aware of the legal requirements, your end-product must meet?—?for Let’s begin.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate. First, they are rare.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Rafayel Mkrtchyan is a product management consultant who helps companies improve their product discovery and delivery processes. He teaches teams how to set up a winning product strategy, run customer and product development processes, as well as robust their lean, agile, and design thinking skills.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies. Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), a consultancy firm that helps companies build successful products.

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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. Key learnings.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 24, 2025

In several recent conversations, new nonfiction authors and consultants asked how to best use their time to promote their book or consulting business. Here are their names and links to one of their recent newsletters: Emily Webber's Posts from Awesome Folks , Stefan Wolpers' Food for Agile Thought , and Adrian Howard's Quiet Stars.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Why Timesheets are Invalid “Data” Back when I was a young software developer, I worked on several projects “at a time.” In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. My company wanted to capitalize the software effort. Stop multitasking.

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