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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. Let’s go Agile! In the attempt to reduce waste and maximize the chances of success, many companies embrace Agile, at least on the surface. Enter Lean Customer Development.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

Joining us is returning guest, Carmel Dibner, who is a principal and co-owner at Applied Marketing Science (AMS), where she has helped companies uncover critical customer insights to improve products, services, and customer experiences.Before moving to consulting she was in brand management at Unilever.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 3, 2018

He’s now a product consultant who works with a range of companies: “I plug into companies that have delivery teams, and I advise the teams on what they should do and in what order.”. Joe’s role as a product consultant means he needs to do his homework thoroughly before he even walks into a client’s office. No Magic Bullets.

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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. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The 5 seconds test and the first-click test are common qualitative testing techniques to start investigating the issues with your bounce rate. You can easily create and run those tests using the UsabilityHub. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging.

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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. We agreed “done” would be when the user story had been checked in, code reviewed, QAed and deployed into our staging (test) environment. About Merziyah Poonawala.

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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. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration. Became a consultant.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I identify as a coach and not a consultant. This comes from the Agile Manifesto , reducing our batch sizes. We can actually test our designs. Assumption Tests Help Us Discover the Right Solutions This is where our second small research activity is going to come into play. They didn’t know what to do when.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Plugging in: how to generate insights Analysis: how to prioritize and understand feedback Communication: how to synthesize information Test/Build/etc & then repeat. In my management consulting days I learned the best way for people to receive this information is as (1) time saved (2) money saved (3) money earned. It’s cyclical.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. Click To Tweet.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

However, you know what tests you need. Solving Deterministic Problems Does Not Require an Agile Approach. However, you might not release interim work until you've fully tested your solution. And, you might need both, which is why many projects use some sort of iterative and incremental (but not agile) lifecycles.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management. Test new approaches, such as shifting certain tasks to the evening or using a timer to prioritize key activities.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

If you’ve got a background in waterfall processes, it can seem as if agile techniques are just about making it up as you go along. 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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. An agile approach requires a change in culture at the team level, at the portfolio level, and in management. Agile approaches change what we discuss, how we work together, and what we reward. Release trains.

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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How you involve real users in beta testing? In our interview with Adam Satterfield , director of Testing and Quality at Anthem, we dive deeper into these questions and the importance of test strategy on the whole.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Instead of optimizing for a team's agility, we can encourage management agility with flow efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

It goes well beyond analytics, frameworks, and agile. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

They've started to use agile approaches. Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. But, what happens if you don't have an agile project? Then we designed, coded, integrated, and tested. A client wants to know how best to calculate their software capitalization.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

publication Shape Up – Stop Running In Circles and Ship Work That Matters , Head of Strategy Ryan Singer shares an approach that challenges most of the orthodoxy around Agile (as a framework) but retains all of the spirit of agile (as a philosophy).

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . But SpaceX has shown impressive progress leveraging an Agile production methodology that could compete with and even replace NASA’s waterfall processes. . If you keep up with the testing of Starship, you’ll notice that failure is treated as a success. BECOME AGILE.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 10, 2023

Here's a short test to know if your job will survive the (somewhat) imminent AI revolution: Does your job require you to analyze something someone already did? The post A Short Test to See if Your Job Will Survive AI appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. At some point. That's how you can protect your job.

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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? If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility. However, many people wanted “the recipe” for agility.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Combining the two platforms enables app providers to move with the speed and agility to meet the needs of their customers, while still maintaining the security and control required for regulatory concerns. Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch. Quantum Metric.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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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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