The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. From Product Vision to User Stories to Roadmap Tools In my experience, product roadmaps work best as an extension to the Product Backlog. Before you try to come up with a product roadmap, fix the vision problem first. Agile Experiments ??

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project. Modus Kickstart was created to achieve that alignment.”

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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. What is impact mapping in agile?

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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

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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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Radical Product Thinking is a clarion call for vision-driven product development over the iterative approach that has, for many, become the orthodox approach to product strategy and management. For Radhika, vision-driven product development embodies the power of long term thinking over short term.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. While some of this rapid recalibration is healthy—and might be heavily influenced by the Agile onion impact on planning —executive teams, board members, and investors take little comfort in a zig-zagging product plan. Achieving great things takes planning.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Then drive development down a waterfall and months later this product which was perfectly aligned with what customers and stakeholders specified would ship. Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn. Leading agile companies set the vision, goals and measures. Because things change.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. It should not be confused with project planning, product strategy development , or product discovery. Stages of product planning.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product. Compatible with agile methods for development. Step 1: Frame the journey.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

In order to do this, you need teams who are familiar with methods like “agile “ , which facilitate collaborative teams and a quickfire approach to problem-solving. However, the key principle behind a Sprint is to save steps in product development and release. But, most of all, you must know how to be efficient in your product design.

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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. 566 global ratings.

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Radical Product

MAY 23, 2018

It was an interactive session where we presented elements of Radical Product thinking and interleaved it with exercises so each person could develop a measurement strategy for their product/ organization, that was grounded in their vision and strategy. Below are your answers when we asked at the end, “What was your “Aha!”

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2020

Here are a few thoughts for how product managers – especially those in an agile development environment – can embrace uncertainty and live with the inevitable discomfort. There’s an expectation of product managers to spell out the vision for our products and what the product looks like one or two years down the road.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

They were using the same manufacturing techniques that Henry Ford created at the beginning of the 20th century: waterfall “assembly line” development cycles packaged up onto physical disks. But the products being developed, the websites and applications, were essentially marketing tools – glorified digital brochures. Speed and agility.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For today’s post, we sat down with Chris Hockley , an agile delivery manager and lean agile coach at SuperAwesome. He works at SuperAwesome, a UK-based company that develops tools and services to make the internet safer for kids. Did you miss the first post in this series? Meet Chris Hockley. Business risk.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. Your roadmap needs to tell a story of how you’re going to reach your product vision. But the training was intense! Managing up.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision. Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust. For example, you need to communicate your strategy and vision widely and cultivate an environment of transparency regarding business goals and direction.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: No comments.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: No comments.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. Technical Debt and Your Product.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. The initial vision was to. This is what we did.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus. Start with company vision and direction. Everything flows from this vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality. He did, however, have a few gems.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2019

Everyday, product managers all over the world open their laptops and prepare to take on the challenges of product development with their teams. In this hectic, yet intensely rewarding career, there are also many habits you can adopt that will help you in each hurdle, support each sprint and keep development moving forward. Need ideas?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user. If you don´t have this in mind, you might end up doing things just because people asked for it, not because it is alligned to your product´s vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

Elizabeth currently leads Strategy and Research and Development for Service & Hospitality at Chick-fil-A and has been a professional speaker for over a decade. So, I’ve been sitting in the business strategy space and research and development, concept testing futuristic elements that might eventually be in restaurants.

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Radical Product

JUNE 19, 2018

When developing and launching these types of products, the need for product thinking is clear: someone must take day-to-day responsibility for the product vision and strategy, manage updates and releases, and balance priorities between customers, technology, and the business. Datank is a company offering Machine Learning as a service.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The development team representatives are members of one or more cross-functional development teams. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

Anchored to your solution, iterating from product release to product release, hoping to discover the missing piece that will make your vision come alive. Agile Software Development Once innovation teams start down the path of building an MVP, they usually employ Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum) to iterate along.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

A designer, for example, may have been interested in arts as a kid and loved to exercise his creativity. The main job of a designer is to find the right problem to solve (no matter how much time or effort it takes), the one that is going to make users want to use the product developed by the product team to address this need.

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