Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Now, how do you do that?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Try to think of the process as an agile development project. Go ahead and make an exhaustive list, then include everyone who is important for the project’s success. An appropriate stakeholder list for BI projects will likely include…. IT Administrators. Business Process Analysts.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In some other companies, product management (along with project management), roles up to the CIO (Chief Information Officer).

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It described my experience at Agile Partners when we got early hands-on with the original iPad at the Cupertino campus. Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. And did I mention that I learned HTML and CSS along the way?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Assuming you do decide to improve the Proof of Concept, then typically you iterate using an agile process. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas It gives stakeholders an opportunity to assess the benefits and challenges before making additional investment on iterative improvements.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. A technical HiPPO, such as an architect or CTO, might overrule a design or architecture. They do have some constraints, such as “this kind of customer” and “these kinds of problems.”

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Atomic Spin PM

JUNE 18, 2019

There is a common misconception that documentation should be done away with entirely in Agile development. Agile Documentation Basics. Agile values “working software over comprehensive documentation.” Agile Documentation Ideas. With Agile, the level of documentation can vary. I strongly disagree.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. One of our clients is a deep believer in agile and that agile teams are self-determining. So why does something that is supposed to be good go wrong?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. Can they create an agile transformation?

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Few takeaways for me in the thread below: 1) Diligence+ thoughtfulness > agility Need to keep this in mind in the ‘move fast and break things’ culture. The oldest engineering manager may may be more influential than the newly appointed CTO. Organised by @nextbigwhat and moderated by @cnha.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. “Agile doesn’t tell you to do anything that isn’t already obvious to most people,” says Paul.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The mission of the Intercom Information Security (InfoSec) team is to foster and safeguard customer trust – and we think a lot about how we preserve Intercom’s agility while also recognizing and mitigating the highest-rated security risks. . Investing significantly in safeguarding our customers’ trust.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Share Master emotional agility and shift annoyance into opportunity Ever had a colleague do something that gets on your nerves? Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. Another path is to to reflect on your company culture.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

With the majority of our product & engineering teams furloughed and operating with a skeleton caretaker team only, here’s my top 10 learnings from recent experience of this crisis: A crisis calls for pragmatism and being truly agile. Myself and our CTO have been side-by-side in leading and working with our small caretaker team.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

He is a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, organizer, and participant in product management, agile, UX, and innovation events around the world. He leads the Boston Product Management Association and is a head judge at the annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition. appeared first on Business of Software USA.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 2, 2019

Agile Though there are various approaches to software development, we realized that Agile methodologies ensure a high level of transparency. It is also about being Agile in the in-house processes. It is more technical than managerial and is controlled by the CTO at our company.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. Every organization doing agile software development does it a little bit differently. What was the point of diligently managing the backlog when it would be impossible to accomplish it all? Clicking Delete was one of the harder things I’ve done.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

Jason Fried says so himself in the foreward: For one, we’re not into waterfall or agile or scrum. In this meeting they bring together a few senior leaders at the company (CEO, CTO, head of strategy, and senior eng leader) to decide the projects for the upcoming 6-week cycle based on the pitches that were prepared to be reviewed.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have helped shape the landscape of product management in the 21st century. Uber has a fleet of Product Operations Managers that are responsible for getting out of the office and talking with as many customers and users as possible. And the landscape continues to change at a rapid pace.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. We hired contractors for a few specific things and eventually brought in Agile and Scrum. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship. No, I was hired as the lead designer.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

While Gainsight and Aptrinsic both see an opportunity for something greater by coming together, we’re keeping the teams structured in a way that the encourages the same agility and agency that got Aptrinsic to where it is today. Mickey, formerly the CEO at Aptrinsic, is now the CTO of Aptrinsic at Gainsight.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” Keep everyone united As Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora said in an interview : “Force yourselves to get everyone on the same page about what’s important for the business right now.” As a direct result, I became Head of Product.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I had misunderstood the concept and confused it with agile principles. The team includes the CEO and CTO providing executive level support. The next day while driving to Wales to go mountain biking I listened to his book Sprint via Audible. I plan to share the story of our design sprint here.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Vasu Vadlamudi Product Management Consultant.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. 27 How to adapt UX research for an Agile environment. Published in UX Mastery, this article discusses how Agile is everywhere.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. CEOs need to change too. The move to the cloud and to software-as-a-service (SaaS) models changed a lot of things about business.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I had misunderstood the concept and confused it with agile principles. The team includes the CEO and CTO providing executive level support. The next day while driving to Wales to go mountain biking I listened to his book Sprint via Audible. which was one of my mistakes the first time round. which is tomorrow.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Vasu Vadlamudi Product Management Consultant.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). creating a community of practice for their organisation. getting a promotion.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

Product managers and their more recent Agile brethren, product owners, hold one of the most demanding positions in an organisation. You will be in a much better position to explain to your CTO why you absolutely need those four weeks of backend refactoring. Understand their purpose, if not the underlying technical requirements.

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