Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 30, 2025

What you’ll learn: Why traditional Agile and Scrum methods often lead teams into endless cycles of work without meaningful shipping milestones. The “appetite-driven” approach to product development where teams set fixed timeboxes (usually six weeks maximum) and vary the scope instead of expanding timelines.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. For agile at scale, I don’t believe this is true.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Keep the other groups in Figure 1 informed about changes in the product strategy and product roadmap , for example, by inviting subjects to bigger review/demo sessions and having one-on-ones with context setters. A better way is to co-create the product strategy and roadmap with the key stakeholders.

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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. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. That’s the job of the Scrum Master or agile coach.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

It does not cover common product management practices, such as, product strategy development, product roadmapping, and financial forecasting; and the only product management tool it offers is the product backlog. The product manager would return only to issue change requests or help with the launch.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. A product strategy describes the approach chosen to make a product successful. Eisenhower, we could say, “Strategy is worthless.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

Being the first product manager at a startup typically means being the 10th or 15th employee, and recognizing that – although product management has both tactical and strategic components – you’ll initially be more focused on tactics. Dual Track Agile.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. A lot of digital transformation companies usually need to start with Product Organizational design, getting alignment on the role of a Product Manager and what that means before they can look at Product Strategy and Product Operations.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. The Creative Cloud was a definite risk.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

If product priorities are shaped by market segment priorities instead of individual product needs, aren’t the priority debates just shifting from products to markets? It’s a logical question but the answer is a definitive no. Definitely yes but it’s not as complicated as you might think.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 8, 2024

By taking on the operational tasks that often bog down product managers, Product Ops allows product managers to concentrate more on customer needs, innovation, and strategic planning. This not only enhances the product development lifecycle but also contributes to a more agile and responsive product team.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The product owner is accountable for “developing and explicitly communicating the product goal.” The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time. If this definition leaves you scratching your head, don’t worry. Scrum is a simple framework designed to facilitate the development of complex products.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. To get the roles definition right, start by identifying the company’s products.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 19, 2018

Helping you make that move from product manager to product master is explored in this episode by considering: Various perspectives on product management, Responsibilities of the role, and. How Agile practices are impacting the role. 7:15] What is the role of a product manager and how does that vary across organizations?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. It helps us to avoid falling in love with our product, requires research and promotes honesty. It’s the foundation of our product strategy. For my money, this is what we mean when we talk about “agile at scale”.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

Using this information, you can create a customer-centric product that truly resonates with your target audience. Product strategy and roadmap It is essential to pay special attention to this step because your roadmap serves as the document that aligns your design efforts with broader business objectives.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

In an Agile world full of cloud-based solutions, there’s no shrink-wrapped container full of widgets that truly signifies completion. And, there’s always an opportunity to ship code that is far from a “finished” product. Defining the definition of done. The definition might be lead by the ScrumMaster or the head of engineering.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

It’s a conversation in which Ryan shares the Basecamp approach – one that challenges most of the orthodoxy around Agile as a framework, but retains all of the spirit of agile as a philosophy. Over the last couple of years, the conversation has shifted and we’ve definitely taken steps forward. Worldwide Celebrations.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

One seasonality that definitely happens but I don’t have a clear explanation why, is with accelerator programs. For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. Something definitely didn’t work. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. In this post, I'll take a first pass at definitions, so we can separate the strategic from the tactical. Strategy Occurs At Several Levels. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

It doesn’t prove yet that your product offering is comparatively better than that of your competitors, but it is a good starting point. Typically, if your bounce rate is above 60%, then your product definitely has some issues. Contact him via contact@productguy.io.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

Much of this project was an open question: ‘How do you go beyond product strategy to business strategy?’ The MS in Product Management program provides a team of students to work with each capstone project sponsor. It makes him more agile and flexible, he definitely stands out,” concludes Curtis.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible. Don’t wait for more perfect products. The startups and product development groups I’ve been a part of follow the “lean startup” approach closely…I believe most startups do nowadays. product strategy”).

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

What Is a Product Owner, Anyway? Part of the confusion is that the product owner role is relatively new. It originated as part of the Scrum agile framework in software development, which has been around only a couple of decades. But many of these businesses had different ideas of what their product owners should be doing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2023

They also need their portfolio management or governance processes to align well with core agile practices; otherwise, there will be a fundamental disconnect with the agile approach being used at the individual product level. This article lays out strategies for portfolio planning.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

If yes, you are definitely in the right place! itCraft has a specialized mobile team (Android, iOS & Flutter) and web team working according to the Agile Scrum framework. Probably, you look for a research-based recommendation of a reliable app development service provider too.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

What Is Product Roadmap? The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product. It is a product strategy document that is used as a source of truth by the product team, the development team, external stakeholders, etc. Product Roadmap Examples.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. Product Strategy Frameworks. Each strategy has its pros and cons.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

All of this is why I find the best way to articulate a strategy is as a set of product/market fit hypotheses that you are constantly iterating on and refining. And that's what refining your strategy is all about. This more agile work style can be a more efficient way of getting things done.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In reality, rarely does an executive or strategy team set off on new research or a strategic direction by starting with “what’s our thinking on bugs?”. The organisation and product strategy is usually already determined by the time you’re thinking about bugs. Product Prioritisation IV. Doing Definitions VII.

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