The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. Ever since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, the concept of becoming more efficient by embracing iterative delivery models and “learning-on-the-go” has captivated senior executives to junior project managers alike.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

What that viewpoint misses is that we build understanding, alignment, and purpose – and that our best tool is conversations. 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. Quote of the Episode.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The true cost of an agile transformation can be hard to measure, boiling down to a combination of process, people, and tools. You spend countless hours training teams and adopting new processes – and that’s all before you even consider bringing in a tool to provide reporting and visibility across the entire organization.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This speaker spoke on The Key to Successful Voice of the Customer (VOC) in Agile Teams. Agile teams need to know what they are developing, and VOC is a tool for understanding what customers need. We’ll discuss how to get more benefits from VOC in Agile teams. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. Tools and technology: Operating systems, languages, anything specifically technical.

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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. Moreover, Liberating Structures are a great tool when peers come together to jointly figure out how to improve as an individual as well as a professional.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 17, 2020

What tools do you need? My list of the most important tools: A good microphone and headset so you can hear people, even in somewhat noisy environments, like a home with other people. I recommend a tool, such as Slack. A meeting tool anyone can start. Tools You Can Buy or Use. Tools I Didn't Mention.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Do you have the right tools to capture that voice? In order to help, we’ve taken the liberty of compiling a list of the best mobile in-app feedback tools for you. Core mobile in-app feedback tools & solutions.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit. Principles guide process.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. Today we are talking about using a modified version of Scrum for hardware projects.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

Despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Like the technology we use to build the products we love ages and gets left behind, Agile has died while we were perfecting our standup. We are in a post-Agile world and the terrain has changed.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 3, 2018

He’s recently written a book, “ Psychology for Designers,” in which he focuses on recognising and using psychology as a design tool. 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.”.

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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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280 Group

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. . Agile Product Development Leads to Advanced Innovation . BECOME AGILE. NASA is not delivering on that front. .

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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. It’s more than “Training, Titles, Ceremonies, and Tools.”.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I never had to experience CASE tools in the 90s. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! I'm a huge fan of tools that help me do my job. Yes, use paper, because you will interrupt yourself less than if you use an electronic tool.) Tools might help us. It doesn't work that way!!)

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Solving Deterministic Problems Does Not Require an Agile Approach. And, you might need both, which is why many projects use some sort of iterative and incremental (but not agile) lifecycles. And, if management wants to be able to change what the team does frequently, you need an agile approach , with the requisite culture changes.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

The agile project manager asks, “What percentage confidence are you comfortable with for a given item? If your tool calculates cycle time, use that. Here's how to do the cycle time calculation if you have a lot of data and no tool: The formula is End Date minus Start Date. If you want a 50% confidence, that's about a week.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. Competency is teaching you the tools, however, proficiency is mastering them.

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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. I wrote about Agility in Name Only.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 15, 2019

The managers run around for two or three months in advance of that fiscal year, attempting to predict a ton of things: Estimates for not-well-defined projects or features, Capital equipment or tool needs, “Headcount” aka, people needed. Here are ideas for a more agile budgeting approach: Fund teams, not projects.

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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.” In Agile, this could be done during Sprint Planning.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Digital transformation fosters agility by enabling businesses to adapt quickly to changing market conditions, customer preferences, and new technologies. Technology selection Choose the right tools for the job.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. Your budget is a tool, not a hammer that drives you to do crazy things. (I Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. We might also have capital expenses so the distributed people have sufficient infrastructure and tools.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

Survey: Product Management Tools. What tools and technologies do you use for product management? Take the 2017 SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools Survey now ! Applying Agile to Marketing. ET, I’ll be presenting a webcast called “ Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t.” How well do they work?

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

Survey: Product Management Tools. What tools and technologies do you use for product management? Take the 2017 SiriusDecisions Product Management Tools Survey now ! Applying Agile to Marketing. ET, I’ll be presenting a webcast called “ Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t.” How well do they work?

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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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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 21, 2017

An Agile Product Open meetup recap. The Agile Product Open meetup is one such group that is dedicated to advancing the principles and practices of product management. It’s a collaborative forum for leveraging Agile to discover and deliver better products, sooner. The theme for the evening was “Agile Product Roadmaps”.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

(I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) We can file all those ideas into an electronic tool. Then we only have to deal with all those ideas when we open the tool. That's how you can create better products with much less of a backlog.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Tim has more than 22 years of top management consulting and digital transformation experience, working with clients in more than 20 countries. It’s just one tool that can help companies transform. I know every consultant just loves having frameworks, but that’s not the reason I put a framework in the book.

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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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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 12, 2019

Now, it’s Monday and you need to be in the office for an 8 AM meeting to hear what the new Agile Consultants have come up with for your organization. The consultants launch into their presentation, talking about improving the business by organizing into small cross-functional teams and working in small batch sizes.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 7, 2022

And the tools make them look even more certain. This is the same problem as The Schedule Tool is Always Right schedule game.) The tools don't expect you to change your mind with rolling wave planning. That's why I prefer a scope-based roadmap that's not inside a tool to focus the team's work. Even more worse (!)

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  My Kahneman learnings: I’m often blind to my own biases;  different people think differently; my logic isn’t the perfect universal tool to overpower everyone else; I don't listen enough; and I’m probably not the smartest person in the room. 

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