Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Thus, custom software development and engineers face the same challenges faced by the market demand. Read the article to know what it is?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. As the person in charge of the product, you depend on the work of the development team and you are, of course, affected by poor performance. But this would be wrong.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Manager/ Senior Manager, WCT Product Owner @ American Express (New York, NY and Phoenix, Arizona) Keywords: Agile Lean, product owner, software development, User Story [link] Filed under: product jobs Tagged: product management.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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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. This approach has made software development more effective in the last couple of years.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. This software development methodology is still in its infancy when it comes to our understanding of which teams should be embracing it and which should be shunning it. Perhaps after twenty-one years it’s time to look back at what exactly spurred this obsession.

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Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

Agile is a software development methodology. Agile development is a methodology for building software, and it’s a good one! Smaller teams cranking out measurable units of software every 2-4 weeks and iterating toward usable features has done wonders for software development.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 13, 2018

With passage of time it becomes more and more challenging to make the transition from traditional waterfall method to agile practices. In contrast, the service or project based companies will often encounter customers who will order something with a fixed time, fixed budget and fixed scope. What is Wagile?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. This sequential, waterfall-based approach used to work when there was little change and innovation, when product managers could correctly predict what the users needed and describe the detailed product functionality upfront. The Brave New Agile World. Listen to this article: [link].

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

This was a team plagued by poor lead time for feature development and unrealistic expectations, set in part by the inability of the team to provide realistic delivery estimates for features. Without scope discussions, user stories could often run across multiple days making it hard to determine expected delivery. THE CAUSE.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This is necessary for the following two reasons: First, if you start sprint planning without a properly prepared product backlog, you are likely to perform backlog and planning work in a comparatively short, time-boxed meeting. An example for the latter might be “Finish the dashboard so it can be released to the test users”.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. They’re about cutting sprints and prioritizing user stories. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian? 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2021

One of the many Agile myths is that it is difficult to manage evolving requirements. However, veterans of the software testing world know that agile development is a superior method to manage the constantly changing needs that many software development projects encounter.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

This is true for product people and development team members alike in my experience. Therefore, make an effort to involve the right individuals. I once worked on a new product development effort where more than one hundred developers in three locations had been allocated right from the start of the project.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Steel-cut oatmeal was a very popular breakfast at the time, but it takes more than 45 minutes to prepare. Know Your Customers’ Problems. The staff taste everything they sell (even the pet food is tested by their pets), and an effort to get close to the customer, to see and solve their problems, underpins everything the store does.

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Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

Agile is a software development methodology. Agile development is a methodology for building software, and it’s a good one! Smaller teams cranking out measurable units of software every 2-4 weeks and iterating toward usable features has done wonders for software development.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Customers are dissatisfied with your current product and churn at a high rate. And software developers and testers want to know that their time spent writing and testing code is purposeful. Sometimes an account manager emails you about a complaint that a major customer has and demands to know when the fix will release.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. It's time for performance reviews. Can we extend whatever that is to our hiring effort? These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. What do we do?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

This is true regardless of whether you’re closing new customers or growing existing business. When implemented correctly, the result of leveraging the Agile Arrow is powerful: you are able to prioritize the people, work and outcomes that will make, or break, the deal. Act I: Embracing agile principles.

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

By enabling feature toggles within the codebase, developers can quickly turn ON or OFF features without having to go through the entire development cycle over and over again. This is a significant time saver and life saver. Feature toggles have become increasingly popular among software developers. Even Better!

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I recently had the pleasure of having a conversation with Pam Ashby, a strategist at the Agile Business Consortium , to explore the world of Business Agility. Business Agility is a topic that’s been gaining momentum and for a good reason. What is Business Agility? Below are key takeaways from our discussion.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Salesforce is a great example of a SaaS provider that specializes in CRM (Customer Relationship Management). SaaS applications offer the following advantages: Cost savings: Software providers typically offer a SaaS product on a multi-tenancy cloud environment. Integration: A software product might need to integrate with another.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem Technologies This is the process of writing code and using tools to automate the user interface (UI) testing of front-end components of websites, desktop applications or mobile applications. Quality of software costs time and it costs money. Why do UI Test Automation?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle of Introduction, growth , maturity and decline.With digital disruption in the market place it is very critical that we design products that stay in the growth phase for a longer period of time. The big picture for Product Management is based on these principles of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Traditionally, Waterfall model was used as an SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Methodology. Agile talks about Iterative & Incremental Software development, which gives it the ability to adapt to changes whenever required. Iterative v/s Incremental Development. When to use Agile?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. market intelligence, results from experiments, user interviews, statistical data).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. But it is not the only game in town.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In general terms, if we want to know how much time some task will take, we need to be pretty sure about What to do, How to do it and to Have done it multiple times. This age-old issue has seen many different approaches over time – ranging from the informal , to the extremely detailed and formalized.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery.

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