UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Desperate to find an alternative to our ineffective process, I stumbled upon Agile and it blew my mind. I was used to creating the entire experience of a product, with complex and detailed features. Guess what? It never did.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise. Since it’s not a prescriptive methodology, but a collection of values and principles, people feel lost when it comes to “becoming agile”. That’s when we could claim to be Agile. We all know the driving license analogy.

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement Agile turns into micromanagement as a result of the middle management’s resistance to change. You guessed right: it is time for a rant and short “checklist” to get the discussion going in your organization. Hands-on Agile #28: If You Use Scrum, Don’t Miss this One!

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. After all, nobody wants to experience a shipwreck. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Level two increases empowerment by adding the authority to determine the features and user experience the product should offer. At the same time, I believe that it is important to look at things the way they are. Before I discuss the three levels in more detail, let me briefly explain why I wrote this article.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

Is your team Agile or Fragile? designed using: canva.com With the massive increase in the number of products launched in the past decade, a lot of organizations have adopted the AGILE approach as a system of managing their processes. Agile suggests that the voice of all the stakeholders be heard. Are you ready?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked 9+ years in software development, leading sizeable cross-functional engineering teams across time zones. Though I had no idea what I was doing, before I knew it, I interviewed external customers, internal stakeholders, and various customer-facing teams to understand the problem better. Who am I building for?,

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. Providing the right product leadership is demanding; it requires a specific skills set and usually your full attention as the person in charge of the product. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

But now it’s time to move forward. 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. Agile isn’t to blame for this.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

If you want to become a product lead but have no experience, it is still not difficult to get there. Product managers can work their way in their career path to become this lucrative profession with time. Keep reading to learn how to become a product lead with no experience. It shows that you can take initiative.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? Their customers are the users. (No No one buys on behalf of the users.). They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. As AR&D work, they realize they need to experiment in short feedback cycles.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

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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. It starts with describing the customer experience through user stories.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

These are a few of my observations and personal experiences. 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer? . -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. 2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers. 2018: "Can you teach people how to do MVP experiments? It is too risky. We will get sued.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

. – Stage-Gate and Agile Stage-Gate are popular product development processes that manage risk and incorporate Agile elements. – Jobs-to-be-Done theory focuses on understanding the customer’s underlying needs and the jobs they are trying to accomplish with a product.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Additional areas include: Background or knowledge in Agile methodology Business skills Data analysis Market research skills Problem-solving Product roadmap development Solid communication skills Strategic thinking To get you started, check out our PMHQ Technical Product Manager Courses. This can be challenging for new graduates.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 21, 2018

Lateral leadership describes the art of efficiently influencing others around you without formal authority. It is essential for succeeding in the implicit leadership position that product managers find themselves in. They also didn’t appreciate the importance that lateral leadership already had in their daily business life.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 27, 2023

Introduction In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to enhance their software development and project management processes. Agile methodologies offer a flexible and iterative approach that emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and customer-centricity.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

To thrive in the role, budding platform PMs need to learn technical and softer skill sets, such as effective customer research and road-mapping a product’s route to market. The instructor provides feedback throughout the course and leads practical sessions to give candidates hands-on experience with the skills they’ve learned.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. It also allows you, as the person in charge of the product, to understand if dedicating your time and energy to the offering is worthwhile and sustainable. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

When you have one team learning Agile, another learning Lean, and yet another learning Design Thinking, how are you supposed to get to alignment? Everyone speaks a different language, works at a different pace, aims for different goals, and leadership is in the middle trying to understand how best to help. What is Agile Really About?

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley Today’s guest is Ryan Ripley. He hosts the Agile for Humans podcast and most recently co-wrote Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions for Common Scrum Problems with Todd Miller for PragProg. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

According to the 2020 State of Agile Report , 95% of organizations say they’ve adopted Agile development methodologies within their team. So why do 84% of those respondents feel like they’re not doing Agile the right way? The answer is simple—there’s no right way to do Agile.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the perfect world, there is time to talk with a wide range of users , including existing users, potential users, and also users who have churned.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The agile release train (ART) is a long-lived team of agile teams that, along with other stakeholders, incrementally develops and delivers value. This agile release train cheat sheet breaks down the purpose, principles, events, and members of the ART. Program risks are discussed openly and remediation efforts are public.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 24, 2020

There have been many times in Southwest Airlines history where times were great. However, there are other times Southwest refers to as “existential moments” where the outcomes were not obvious and the company was forever changed because of it. Fireside style chat hosted by Business Agility 2020 Emerging from Crisis.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. These are the ones you can acquire through education and experience.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

It will bounce back, but it will take time?—?first So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership? This is no time for superfluous features, this is about building the minimum you need at each stage. Constraints on time, resource and runway force brutal decision-making. It’s MVP at its best.

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