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How to Achieve a Successful Agile Transformation

280 Group

You’ve decided to move to Agile product development. Before you pop open the Champagne, here’s the bad news : 47% of Agile transformations fail. Cargo-Cultism – Agile is installed, not instilled . Command-and-Controlism – Agile teams are using a Waterfall process . What is an Agile Product Organization? .

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Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development

The Product Coalition

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. Imagine you’re developing a new app for a client. Citations: Schwaber, K. Scrum guide. Sutherland, J.

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Agile vs. Roadmaps — Ending the Battle [+Webinar]

280 Group

Sign up for our October 15th webinar, Unlocking a More Strategic Product Roadmap using Agile , to learn more in-depth about taking your product roadmap to the next level using Agile. For the last 10 years or so, we’ve followed some version of Agile: SCRUM, Kanban, or another customized form of Agile methodology.

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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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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. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! April 27, 2022 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm BST.

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One Critical Part of Product Management That Got Lost in Agile Development

Product Management University

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. The Irony of Agile Development.

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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

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. What is Bad Performance?

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

If so, it's time to look to no-code development. Join Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy, and learn how to leverage tech and drive agility with citizen development and the no-code movement. How to recognize emerging trends in tech today and leverage them to stay agile for a holistic business strategy.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Agile has been impeded by retention of Waterfall release planning practices and schedule pressure.

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The Importance of Having Strong Decision Agility in Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Emily Tate, Managing Director at Mind the Product

As product managers, making decisions is a key part of our roles. We are tasked with ensuring decisions are made across the entire spectrum, from the highly strategic (“Where is our product headed?”) to the very tactical (“Which bug should we fix first?”).

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How Product Teams Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Feature flags offer great value to developers, but they can benefit product teams equally as much. 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. Using feature flags with experimentation to accelerate time-to-value.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.

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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.

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A Guide to Designing Delightful Dashboards

Speaker: Daniel O'Sullivan, Product Designer, nCino and Jeff Hudock, Senior Product Manager, nCino

In this session, we will discuss how to design, develop, and implement successful dashboards. Importance of agility and iterative processes. All of these activities play a vital role in providing the superior experience your customers demand. Dashboard design do’s and don’ts. Where to start the journey.

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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. With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand that role to champion usability and customer delight? It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Revitalize QA as champions.