The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Why can’t one developer schedule with another? Scheduling is an exercise in masochism Because the act of scheduling is painstaking. Talk is cheap, dev costs are expensive Another reason is that developers don’t like to talk. Connect a developer to a system architect. A developer to a PO. Why will no one else do it?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Product Roadmaps defines the “Why” are we doing it, and the Product Backlog defines “What are we building” The Product Roadmap is one of the most important tools PM’s use to influence stakeholders From idea phase to develop phase, to launch, iterate, steady-state, and the decline phase. Software development is highly unpredictable?—?provide

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Product leadership requires cross-disciplinary thinking from fields as software development to manufacturing. Best practices are fascinating thought exercises, but if they don’t affect change, that is all they are. Avoid agile-fall. From there, you’ll see things develop. Digital Transformation Blues.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The trick to avoiding this fate is to start including the Development Team as early as possible in Product Backlog management which requires a product mindset. Once the Product Owner has refreshed the team’s understanding of what the product vision is, we move on to the product box exercise. Share the results?—?better:

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Plus/Deltas Plus/Delta is a short reflection exercise to exchange feedback, typically between 2 people. The exercise allows the pair to come to an understanding of what went well (plus), and what can be changed to improve collaboration in the future (delta).

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. The tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. Let’s get to it!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

Once upon a time, I thought writing a good set of agile user stories with specific Given/When/Then acceptance criteria was the most important part of a product person’s job. I had recently made the switch from software engineering to product and was committed to spelling out requirements in a user-centric way that engineers could understand.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

If this is you, I have a simple tool you can use to articulate why things ( might ) take as long as they do, explain it in a way that is helpful to those who are unfamiliar with software development, and finally, provide a simple 5 minute exercise you can do each week to get a bit faster. the real world.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. Key learnings.

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Split

AUGUST 25, 2020

The largest financial institutions and media companies are turning to feature delivery platforms, and Split in particular, to power their product development. As we continue to build out our partner network , customers will see that feature level data will enrich all the tools developers and product teams use today. Trust yourself.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2021

Moshe Miklanovsky, a Software Developer-turned Product Manager and a co-host of the Product-for-Product podcast , explains which technical skills are essential for Product Managers based on his 30-year career in tech. Although very useful, a developer can always come to the rescue when we stumble upon such a need. What is it?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

In our specially designed auditions, product managers perform real-world exercises to assess how they think about problems in an environment where nobody from the company knows anything about their experience, their background, or their formal education. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The Development Team, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders need to figure out whether they are still on track delivering value to customers. did the Development Team deliver the required functionality??—?is The Product Owner should communicate with the Development Team when issues meet acceptance criteria.) An alignment?—?did

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Learn more about the Daily Scrum anti-patterns that threaten to derail your agile transition. no guessing is necessary: The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team. At it, the Development Team plans work for the next 24 hours. The Daily Scrum is an internal meeting for the Development Team.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product management guides the development of a product at the intersection of technology, UX, and business. A product manager course for beginner product managers should teach you how to write product requirements, work with development teams, and communicate as a product manager. Agile, Scrum). Conclusion. Mode: Online.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

Agile Software Development Once innovation teams start down the path of building an MVP, they usually employ Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum) to iterate along. For teams that don’t have a clear understanding of their customer needs, Agile is like adding gasoline to the fire. Garbage in?—?garbage

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation. Joining the Modus Create Team.

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Innovatemap

MAY 9, 2019

Get agile with backlog management. A side benefit of this exercise is that it ensures your company’s innovation isn’t us vs. them, or stakeholders vs. innovation team!). Get Agile with Backlog Management. Agile is a wide-ranging and comprehensive concept, but for the purposes here, I’ll concentrate on a small piece of it.

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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. No one can force work upon the Development Team.

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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. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

. “Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Act I: Embracing agile principles.

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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. It was a really effective elicitation exercise for us that helped us characterize market problems. Whole Product Game Background. How We Used the Whole Product Game.

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Modus Create

JULY 11, 2019

To prevent leadership from hijacking your meeting, meet with them individually beforehand to discuss and agree on the meeting agenda and any facilitation exercises you want to perform. ” Meet With Leadership Beforehand. Doing so will give you a chance to explain the benefits of your process.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s still no real replacement for real-time, dynamic discussions and exercises to foster stakeholder alignment. Berner, 12-year product management career included stints at Pivotal and Betterment, joining the software development consultancy specializing in Lean and Agile. Define goals and anti-goals.

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Modus Create

MARCH 21, 2019

Highly collaborative exercises like group brainstorming can be challenging if your team hasn’t yet embraced a collaborative culture. For example, you can schedule individual interviews with certain people before meeting as a group. Note and Vote.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Download ’71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Hiring Agile Imposters’ 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Scrum is not a methodology but a framework. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner.

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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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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 10, 2014

MVP is an experimentation process, not a product development process. There is also the valid question of if a particular design – to which the developers are writing code – is good enough. Switch gears for a second and recall the most recent estimation and negotiation exercise you went through with your development team.

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

Over the next two days, I walked Tim and Mark through some structured exercises to brainstorm different markets. She apologized and informed me she would attend as many of the discovery sessions as possible but would need to come and go throughout the next three days. Tim and Mark seemed very sharp, so I didn’t think it would be a problem.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Long story short, we decided to learn more about the way software development teams approach the bug reporting process. For that exercise we’ve taken a random sample of 3000 bug recordings uploaded to our database in the last 2 months. Is there even such a thing as a standard working day in software development circles?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy Organizations Regularly, InfoQ applies the ‘ Crossing the Chasm ’ metaphor to engineering practices, thus covering a part of the agile movement to create learning organizations.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.   Hard currency.  I

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2019

Developing a B2C product , our goal was to ship 2 new releases each month. I believe it’s proof that the product and development team has built an efficient machine. There’s a huge difference between agile development and what I see as a shipping culture. Is that shipping? that’s not my idea of shipping either.

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Product Management 2.0

JULY 28, 2016

The software market is constantly evolving. In the span of a single week technology website Network World reviews an average of more than 20 software and hardware products. The same rule applies to software product development. Where necessary, cut products and re-focus time and money on other developments.

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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. Similar to the way that teams go through development phases ( Tuckman’s stages of development ), a CoE does the same. The first phase of CoE team development is forming.

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