Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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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. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. .” Seeing things in practice.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Typically, if your bounce rate is above 60%, then your product definitely has some issues. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. However, having a high bounce rate doesn’t always necessarily mean that your product is not solving an important problem.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. Questions that help the developers discover and navigate conflicts between their individual values and Scrum values.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” As others have said , the idea that Agile methodologies are a thing of the past is a gross exaggeration. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

By the time you’ve done enough to be certain, you might as well have spent your time building the software. Agile vs Waterfall. Long-term planning in an agile environment can seem like a paradox but what if there was a way to do long-term planning while still retaining agility? The Project Manager’s Triangle.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a trader of spices in 500BC, you most definitely had to consider customer expectations, profit margins, and the emergence of new techniques for preserving your product. So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider. Localization testing is one of the types of QA that takes place during product development.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Definition of user onboarding. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2018

RACI matrix is dead because it doesn’t help in modern product development and doesn’t reflect the realities of how software is built nowadays. If you rely on a RACI matrix, this probably indicates some serious issues within organisation of your software product team. Well, the team does the work.

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Folding Burritos

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

How can this kind of stress be any good for our teams in the long run? The good and bad parts are, however, separated by a very fine line. Deadlines can easily become impossibly heavy burdens that demoralize otherwise great teams. Also, in order to produce this output, you have a team/budget. Can we do this?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I said that while I’d not had the role, I’d definitely done pretty much everything that a PM needs to do. This knowledge will pay back in droves over time and is critical for virtually any type of innovation and successful product development.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Back in 2011, Luke Hohmann introduced me to this concept and technique, and I used it with success with a team I was working with at the time. Whole Product Game Background.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. Shape Up occupies the same territory, serves the same function, as Those Various Agile Methodologies. ” So what is Shape Up?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 145 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I said that while I’d not had the role, I’d definitely done pretty much everything that a PM needs to do. This knowledge will pay back in droves over time and is critical for virtually any type of innovation and successful product development.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns?—?the

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. So I definitely was really worried about those stairs.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Backlog Anti-Patterns The third Hands-on Agile webinar product backlog anti-patterns covers common problems from out-dated and oversized tickets to the part-time proxy product owner and his or her idea repository. It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Owner Anti-Patterns The sixth Hands-on Agile webinar product owner anti-patterns addresses twelve ways to improve a product owner’s skill set. as the scrum master or scrum team?—?should The Third episode covers the weak product owner: The PO has not learned to say no to stakeholders demanding new requests.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. Finally, a lot of teams – especially in larger organizations -- are misaligned on priorities.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.”

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

This is the sequel to my post Shape Up Your Agile , about the book Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Basecamp ’s Ryan Singer. We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. And shipping!)

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 7, 2022

The best performing product managers are candidates who are inquisitive, methodical, and mindful of their own limitations or weaknesses. They're skilled at formulating solutions to complex product problems and establishing precise and measurable development goals. Reduced development time by 15%. 2019 - Sep.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

We’re just terrible at writing them; and, still, the development group wants more detail—and more and more and more. And developers have to make sense of the requirements. Developers then complain, “Don’t tell me how to do my job,” because the requirement now explains how the feature should be implemented. And they’re right.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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Tyner Blain

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Mike Smart of Egress Solutions and I gave a webinar for Pragmatic Marketing on product roadmapping when working in agile environments. Described something (bad) which was not a roadmap. Concluded that roadmaps are bad. Context in Agile. If that’s interesting, then keep reading. Which What?

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Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

In the world of Agile IT projects, there are a lot of misunderstandings and expectations of what a CoE is and how a CoE should work to deliver results. By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have.

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