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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests. But it is less suited to create complex digital products. The Brave New Agile World.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests. But it is less suited to create complex digital products. The Brave New Agile World.

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Navigating the Valley of Death: About Deep Tech Product Management

The Product Coalition

Sometimes investing in deep tech requires truly innovative product management strategies and frameworks. Availability of such resources, while liberating for entrepreneurs and corporate intrapreneurs alike , poses a unique challenge for product management functions. Are customers asking for it?

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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Agile Release Planning Best Practices For Product Managers

Userpilot

What is agile release planning? How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. Collect user feedback to inform future sprints. Agile release planning.

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Successful Agility In Product Delivery Requires Dynamic Implementation

The Product Coalition

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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Product Strategy Agility: How to Use Experiments and Options to Create Products Your Customers Love

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Senior leaders often want to see months - or years - long product roadmaps. But these predictions often do not create products your customers will love. While customers aren’t fickle, they often do not know what they want until you give them something to try.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

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How Product Teams Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Product teams can use feature flags to continuously deliver a higher-quality product to their end users, all while saving time and speeding up development cycles. In this ebook, we’ll explore: Different use cases for feature flags for product managers and product teams.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

Companies have accomplished this through usability testing and real-time qualitative feedback from customers. However, most businesses struggle with formidable user testing and feedback processes. They will reveal trade secrets on: Turning customer feedback into actionable insights. Increasing profitability.

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Using Continuous Customer Testing for Pandemic-Proof Product Success

Speaker: Luke Freiler, CEO and co-founder of Centercode

COVID-era product management is fraught with challenges as companies scramble to adapt their approach to make the most out of the current economic climate. A lucky few companies are ramping up to meet skyrocketing demand for distance-friendly products and services. September 22, 2020 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm BST.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

By tapping into the wealth of customer and application data, product professionals can identify underutilized features, prioritize improvements, and streamline development efforts in partnership with the development team.