PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. It derives its name from its linear nature.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

As a consequence of this, the mobile app development industry is on the rise now. Probably, you look for a research-based recommendation of a reliable app development service provider too. Fireart Studio Fireart Studio is a boutique design and software development company with a headquarter in Warsaw, Poland.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io In this article, we’ll give some examples of how to increase the success of product development by improving the collaboration between the UX team and the developers. However, these tips may come in handy for developers and product managers as well. .

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

As the name suggests, the PM quadrants are four sections, depicted on a 2x2 graph. Ensure the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed. Additionally, the product owner must have: A deep understanding of agile methodologies in practice. What are the four flavours of product manager?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

A product manager that I hire needs to always keep in the mind the product vision and key success factors, and emphasize them through all of the discussions with company teams that seek to limit their own team's effort, expenditure, or risk, and will blindly limit the product's potential. Product vision statement 5. Product Vision 4.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. If your Scrum Team is moving in the wrong direction because the Product Backlog is not maximizing the value customers derive from the Development Team’s work, no one will care?—?garbage emergent products in the complex domain?—?,

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. When each product initiative advances, the product vision is easy for everyone to be on board. Product management , product development, and user experience comprise the “triad.”

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

How to develop your own prioritization matrix. TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. A feature prioritization matrix is a product management tool that helps teams decide what features to develop next.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” A common example is looking after the development team. What is Sustainable Pace? Are all of these part of your actual job?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Roman Pichler Roman has his own website which is well known within the product and agile development communities, but he still has a decent amount of content on Medium. Rich Mironov - Medium Nir Eyal Author of the best-seller ‘Hooked’, Nir is a don when it comes to behavioural psychology and how it applies to product development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. Decide on the SaaS model, product strategy, and the pricing strategy Formulate your strategy before undertaking software development. Look for relevant SaaS development experience. Test it in the market.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built. It was all the same work I had been doing before, but now it had a different name. I liked this name. It introduced the concept of a Product Owner.

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Tyner Blain

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

“Agile” is something most teams do wrong*, without realizing they’re doing it wrong. Let’s apply this lens to agile as applied within a company, and see if it helps people decide to do things differently. When You Say Agile, What Do You Mean? When You Say Agile, What Do You Mean?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Product leadership requires cross-disciplinary thinking from fields as software development to manufacturing. Instead of leading with company names, the leader leads with experience. Avoid agile-fall. The company gets to be better at making changes because the changes tie to a realistic vision.

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Amplitude

APRIL 4, 2017

There’s so much more road to travel, much more product development needed, and this is where brands often get tripped up. This post explains how to incorporate growth thinking and action into each major phase of product development. A baseline development team usually consists of product management, design, and engineering.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation. In this situation, it doesn’t matter who creates the product, whether it’s two fellow developers or a corporation giant like Google?—?or This is a famous quote from Steve Blank, the founder of the customer development approach.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

When confronted with this question, I used to hesitate, because from company to company there are a million things that can affect the roles; the product, larger organization structure, product development process, cultural differences, regional differences in commonly-used titles, the list goes on. Chris will manage the “how” of the product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Hands-on Agile #30: Making Your Scrum Work?—?The just to name a few. This core agile product creation process is agnostic to the product delivery framework, be it Scrum, XP, or any other framework.

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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.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. This podcast is named The Everyday Innovator and I call the people who listen Everyday Innovators. The book lists the three pillars of great products: customer focus, cultural agility, and an empowered team. 6:55] How do you develop a customer focus?

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NextBigWhat

APRIL 12, 2021

InfoEdge has been running successful products at scale and importantly, given the churn in the audience, the product teams really need to stay agile and keep building for the new audience and their evolving taste. Organizations usually have core pillars around which they weave their vision and hence product offerings.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. Agile methodology has matured a lot in the technology development phase?

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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. The initial vision was to. This vision gave us something to aim for. And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. Build a community.

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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. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. But then, what are the next six months going to look like?”

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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. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. But then, what are the next six months going to look like?”

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I now lead a team of over 40 product managers working on public-facing software, staff-facing software, core technology, and agile consultancy: product roadmaps have been the most consistent topic for support and professional development over the last two years. Roman Pichler’s product vision board.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 2, 2019

Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts. That group of people might have several names: Operations committee/group/team. I do not like “Chief Product Owner” because I don't like “Chief” anything in an agile approach.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

After years working in and coaching numerous software development teams, O’Reilly recently released the second edition to my book on how to get better at adapting to changes in teams, called Dynamic Reteaming. They are the team (both ad hoc and formalized in nature) you must work with to bring your product vision to market.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

As part of the development process, product stories are derived from the user stories and product roadmaps created by the product manager. It narrates why you developed the product, the challenges you faced, and how it has improved the lives of your customers. Explain the product vision. Product storytelling vs. user story.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

Quickly establish a connection to the company with their own eye-catching mission statements or strategic name-dropping via your work history. There are also some other simpler and more technical guidelines to follow: Include your contact information—your name, address, and phone number.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Just to name a few of our clients: Google, Netflix, Cisco, and Zignaly. They offer a wide range of digital services from website design and development to digital marketing. Besides working as a graphic design firm in the UK, their services include web development combining visual and technical skills in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

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