Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. ” However, as the teams work together and explore the product, they assume they can decide on the designs and architecture. Product leaders assume they can plan and replan the product backlog, based on the team's learning.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. How can a Fractional CTO help legacy businesses implement DevOps practices? Finally, a Fractional CTO can help legacy businesses develop a roadmap for DevOps adoption.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Investing in doing this well helps you deliver sooner, can double your productivity, and builds strong collaboration—the backbone of high performance teams. We find that Product Owners and development teams need advanced skills and training in backlog refinement. Start and End with Value. Taking a Holistic View of Backlogs.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams. I suggested that as someone in a position of leading a digital product team, you should always strive to make your team feel like they are in a band and not an orchestra. I’m now Chief Product Officer for FutureLearn.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. Here are a few recommendations, based on my professional experience as well as my research for a forthcoming book, The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks. Point Towards the Mountain.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

From the beginning, we’ve considered customer data to be one of Intercom’s most critical assets and focused our efforts on protecting it by building strong internal security foundations for our product and infrastructure. . We’re committed to meeting the highest standards of security to protect our customers’ trust and love for our product.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Despite general happiness with their jobs , many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want to change this year. That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals. Let’s take a look.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

As a direct result, I became Head of Product. I wanted to share what I’ve learned after doubling both product and engineering teams. The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. One litmus test for this: if you’re working on your product and you hit a roadblock, and you can’t find a satisfactory answer to your question on Stack Overflow. Do some user research. Make some mockups.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have helped shape the landscape of product management in the 21st century. Data is an increasingly significant component of product decisions. What is product ops?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). The list goes on and on – showing once again that our product community is made up of people who push themselves, are curious, and have a learning mindset. Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. getting a promotion.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand. It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

As a product person, we’re constantly finding ourselves in situations where we have to engage the room (virtual, in person), speak under pressure and have difficult conversations. Lean into your product instincts and be curious. Avoiding conflict creates conflict debt, similar to product debt. Not convinced?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The product backlog I managed grew daily. That’s typically enough for any product manager.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Cartoon by Gapingvoid We’ve lost our way in Product Management. When the biggest problem Product Managers face is setting roadmap priorities based on market feedback, it’s symptomatic of the underlying practices and tools. Simply put, Products are Conversations. Great products are made of conversations.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

How product managers can challenge ideas to achieve long-term success. We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople. Ways to form the vision for a product. 1:48] What is Badger Maps?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles.

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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. The tools help the product from the inside. It is more technical than managerial and is controlled by the CTO at our company.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

The Basecamp team does a fantastic job of thinking from first principles, questioning the status quo, and coming up with novel practices that they've carefully battle-tested on their own team over the last 15 years of developing Basecamp. Jason Fried says so himself in the foreward: For one, we’re not into waterfall or agile or scrum.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Jane Austin, Director of Product Design, Babylon Health. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. In order to support this we have generative research which helps us generate lots and lots of ideas. Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Current reading: I’m currently in the middle of reading a whole slew of books on JTBD, for the research I’m doing on the topic. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. The key concept for me was to invest 50% of resources into growth, and 50% into product. At Rapportive, we were 100% product. Good to Great by Jim Collins.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Startup founder?

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

We know that trying to take in over a dozen talks all at once isn’t easy, so we’ve broken them down into easy to digest groups: Product. 1 // Product. Watch What to do about your audience's Product Roadmap questions. Watch the Product Roadmapping Q&A. Agile methodology is not an exact science.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you have an internal development team, ask them to estimate how long it would take them (in hours) to build the product. We’ve rewritten a number of software products and internal tools over the years and learned that they are uniquely challenging. Build the Smallest Possible Product that Delivers Value.

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Atlassian

MARCH 17, 2022

Keep reading for five must-watch presentations that cover everything from the strategic vision for Atlassian’s public sector to best practices, tips, and tricks to get the most from our products. Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, neatly outlines the strategic vision for Atlassian’s role in the public sector.

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