The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

Framework 150

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

Agile development methodologies. ” video , from my (still in production) Secret Product Manager Handbook series. Let me know in the comments what you think about the Secret Product Manager Handbook. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. Design, both visual and technical. Product manager =?

Framework 150

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

They asked me to help them with their agile demo because I am an agile expert. As I worked with them, I realized the problem wasn’t their agile demo, it was how they were demoing. Instead of giving them a new agile demo, I trained them on how to give a solution-oriented demo.

Customer Experience 207

Customer Experience Weak Development Team Demo Agile 207

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. ” The team got into iterative development or Agile Stage Gate, and it worked very well. [17:46] Before you get into Agile, get your process working right. Get the product out in their face fast, early, often, and cheap.

Telecommunications 94

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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. The problem with iterative approaches.

Software Review 52

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The Secret PM Handbook

JUNE 16, 2017

Improving the effectiveness of the development team can impact four of those five. The post To 10x Your Profits Start With Retrospectives appeared first on The Secret Product Manager Handbook. Figure out how impacting one of more of those factors affects revenues and profits.

Data Visualization 186

Data Visualization Customer Experience Research Software User Testing 186

The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

Framework 170

Framework Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team 170

The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

Framework 150

Framework Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team 150

Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

Books 52

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

I’m planning on writing a few more posts that break down books by stages of career and personal development, but here is my quintessential list of must reads for any product manager. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan This is basically the best handbook on product management that I’ve ever read.

Product Management 60

Product Management Product Manager User Testing Product Research 60

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Being a Tech developer, how do I transition into a Product Manager role? To close this knowledge gap, I thought it would be a good idea to develop a platform to provide resources for people looking to learn Product Management. To start with, I wrote this handbook “ Product Management 101 ”. Click ??

User Testing 60

User Testing Product Management Product Manager Product Research 60

The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This is related to the fact that we inherit a lot of our lexicon from IT/internal application development , where the same words often have radically different meanings.). Think about the literal and connotative meanings of the words you use – requirements, features, roadmaps, applications, agile.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

I articulated Customer Development methodology, which says: There are no facts inside your building, so you need to get outside. My student Eric Ries became the first adopter of Customer Development and recognized that in the 21st century, people were starting to adopt Agile Engineering, where you build products incrementally and iteratively.

Startups 88

Startups User Testing Customer Experience Development 88

Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them. This is more effective than an employee handbook since humans tend to retain more information when they actively participate in something, as opposed to passive reading. Speed is of the essence here.

Analytic Tools 98

Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience Data Visualization 98

The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Many executives have a hard time understanding “agile” (actually, many people at all levels of the organization do). So, when you talk to your execs about agile , don’t talk about agile, talk about delivering value to market faster. Which results in higher revenue and more profits. Click To Tweet.

Product Management 170

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Agile 170

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. Customer Critiques : Present customers with multiple developed mockups and/or screenshots of existing solutions already on the market similar to what you are thinking of building. So let’s talk about mini-research.

User Testing 113

User Testing Product Research Research Software Data Visualization 113

The Secret PM Handbook

JUNE 16, 2017

Improving the effectiveness of the development team can impact four of those five. There are a few big ways to improve the business – get to market faster, win more of the deals you get into, get into more deals, open a new segment, increase the total addressable market (TAM) of the segment you’re in.

Data Visualization 207

Data Visualization Customer Experience Research Software User Testing 207

The Secret PM Handbook

JUNE 16, 2017

Improving the effectiveness of the development team can impact four of those five. There are a few big ways to improve the business – get to market faster, win more of the deals you get into, get into more deals, open a new segment, increase the total addressable market (TAM) of the segment you’re in.

Data Visualization 150

Data Visualization Customer Experience Research Software User Testing 150

BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

Develop skills and keep practising. The over-focus on Agile rituals such as Standups, Sprint Planning and Retros has meant that we have forgotten the commercial aspects of our role. Be savvy at developing our networks. Neither should the vision be delivered and launched after years in development.

Product Management 99

Product Management Product Manager Customer Experience Data Visualization 99

Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. If you’re adopting lean thinking, this is the handbook for you. Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process.

Books 67

Books Research Software Feedback Software Weak Development Team 67

Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

Chances are if you’re an engineer or product manager who works on anything even somewhat related to continuous delivery, Jez Humble wrote your handbook. This co-author of the Jolt award-winning Continuous Delivery also made hefty contributions to both Lean Enterprise and The DevOps Handbook. Or, “We do this thing called Agile.

Analytic Tools 42

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software Engineering 42