Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2020

Diversity in Tech. BDD vs TDD vs ATDD feature. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Building quality products. Getting your team to work together.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2021

We talked with agile consultant Liz Keogh about how to get this right, who estimates are for, her invaluable scale for estimating complexity, and how to pronounce the word Cynefin. Buy Chris Matts’ ‘Real Options at Agile 2009’ book here. * ‘What is Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)?’

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. During Definition you want to focus on moving past the discovery concepts, making detailed choices (about tech, design and requirements) and obtaining enough clarity to start developing solutions.

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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? They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. These should be the basis of your product development technical practice.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

You create another backlog of “technical debt” to address later. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). Because every person started their own story, they had to wait for each other for code review. They called this undone work “technical debt.” No More Agile Death Marches.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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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. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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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. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  Which makes us want to sit them down for yet another 2-hour lecture on limited capacity, agile, the need for validation, technical debt, architecture, or the physics of building software.   Each group will naturally put its own list of technical improvements ahead of the other groups. 

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

However, to help fill the gap and ease some anxiety for you, we've outlined below how 12 top tech companies interview and hire software engineers. Browse job openings here: Google Careers The Amazon Interview Photo by Christian Wiediger / Unsplash The software engineering interview process at Amazon is similar to that of other tech companies.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures Last week, we addressed basic practices and tools of remote agile with distributed teams. LS for Scrum More than a year ago, my Berlin Hands-on Agile meetup started exploring the possibilities to use Liberating Structures specifically in the context of Scrum.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Now, we’re putting all our product management software on the table to give you an inside look at our tech stack within three categories: analytics, product development, and communication. We’ve built the best analytics solution around, so, naturally, it’s a core part of our product management tech stack.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! That means integrating code review and testing as part of the team's collaboration. Read See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 1: Inside the Team for a value stream map where the team separates code review from their flow of work.) Tools might help us.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

I like to consider the future not in design or architecture, but in technical excellence. If not, the team becomes hostage to the technical debt. We call it technical debt. Technical excellence in a previous version allows us to move faster on a later release. I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

(PRWEB) JUNE 01, 2020 – Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Security, a packaged product that helps organizations identify and address threats to their intellectual property and private information.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent. Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Troubleshooting Agile – Jeffery Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel’s episode of The Product Experience. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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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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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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. out of 5 stars.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). I used the image from Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation as a way to think about the feedback loop realities in a serial approach.). (I I recommended various ideas with “testing” in their names (TDD, BDD, ATDD). Shorten Feedback Loops.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 30, 2020

About Lean UX v Agile. * Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude , listen to learn: * How to be forever employable. *

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

We can use TDD, BDD, ATDD and get feedback before we write code. I happen to like David Bernstein's book, Beyond Legacy Code (Amazon) and on the Prags , as a way to integrate reasonable technical practices into your work now. When they realized they had a problem with this checkin, they started to write tests and do a code review.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The latest season focuses on women in tech. Scrum Master Toolbox can help product managers better understand Agile principles and techniques so that they can take full advantage of Scrum and other frameworks. Product Hunt Radio explores the future of tech and introduces the latest products and developments. The Product Podcast.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made. Over those 10 years, the technical teams created more robust testing and deployment scripts.

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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

Then I moved on to telecom, military simulation software, cloud SaaS, consulting and finally healthcare. Adam : I think people get too caught up in the fact that a test strategy does not belong in Agile because we want to “limit documentation.” You must have a review session to discuss the points of the strategy document.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

 These are mostly seen as reasonable and technically sound.  Sales  There are no secret resources or hidden teams or magic agile improvements or underutilized developers.  Very  They have to keep project pipelines full and tech teams busy.  Hiring  Very few freebies.  And

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

It goes well beyond analytics, frameworks, and agile. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Using feedback effectively. Different product frameworks.

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Modus Create

JUNE 30, 2021

Emerging technologies, prioritization of workforce culture, and the need for shorter, more cost-effective engagements are making legacy consulting models obsolete. The rise of digital transformation has coincided with the decline in management consulting. And no consulting firm can ignore it anymore. .

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  But each requestor (naturally) sees their item as urgent, strategic, top priority.    Now.

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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. 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. Long standups.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 2, 2022

Those features need more tests and more review. Now, their technical debt has come due. The post See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 3: Some Component Teams, Some Feature Teams appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Teams don't refactor as they proceed and they get bloated code.

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