Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon London, Jonny Schneider, Product Strategy and Design Principal at ThoughtWorks, discusses how using all of design thinking, agile, and lean means we can build better products. Key points: You should try to use design thinking, agile and lean when building your products.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Our Global Product Management Skills survey, now in its third edition, is a resource for product professionals seeking to gauge their expertise against global standards. They aren’t learning strategic product management on the job, and they aren’t sure how to develop these skills.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2022

If you are wondering what Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is and how it can improve your product management processes, you are in the right place! Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is an Agile development framework. It revolves around developing functionality that meets the needs of the customer.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But, it can still be hard to ask your boss for professional development opportunities. The following will help you ask for professional development. Do your research The first step is to understand if there is an existing budget for professional development. We all want it. We all need it. Chances are there is.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

From Scrum Master to Development Team members, this set of questions addresses the foundations of a Scrum Team capability to build valuable products: technical excellence and what it takes to achieve this proficiency level. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. ??

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Centercode

JULY 9, 2019

To keep products evolving at the speed of their customers’ lives, software teams have adopted agile development practices. The rapid iteration made possible by agile practices and continuous delivery allows teams to fine-tune the user experience, little by little, on a consistent basis. Why so few?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 17, 2021

Background The Survey Questions Results: The Numbers Results: Anecdotes BoS Commentary Further Reading (and Watching). The Survey Questions. Is this a good time to short commercial property developers? The worst thing about remote work: Sample survey answers. The biggest challenge in the new order: Sample survey answers.

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Revulytics

JULY 19, 2017

As part of a list of summer reading recommendations for marketers recently published by Forbes, Juniper Networks CMO Mike Marcellin named “Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster and More Innovative” as his pick. Let’s take a look at how software usage analytics can help advance these agile goals.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 29, 2020

The eagerly anticipated 14th Annual State of Agile Report was published earlier this week, and like previous publications, there are some fantastic insights. Benefits of Agile. The top benefits of adopting Agile in this report are fairly consistent with recent years. Digging Deeper into Some Stats.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. It’s tempting to think that the developers?—?engineers, Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Development ?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This can help uncover implicit jobs that customers might not articulate in an interview or survey. Use customer feedback, surveys, and data analysis to determine which jobs are most important and underserved. What to do: Conduct ethnographic research : Use ethnographic research methods to observe customers in their natural environment.

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280 Group

MAY 12, 2021

After coming to a conclusion about what a product will be and how it will answer a market need, the Product Manager works closely with the Product Development team to determine what features will not only make the product differentiated and marketable, but are feasible to develop.

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Userpilot

MARCH 19, 2024

Thanks to that, the development team can collect user feedback and test the feature before rolling it out to all users. When new feature ideas are successfully validated , the development team starts building the feature. A feature rollout is a software development technique involving a gradual release of new features and updates.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It’s product development like that – that seeks out innovative solutions rooted in intimate knowledge of customer’s problems – that has earned Trader Joe’s the reputation as one of the most customer-centric organizations on the planet. Consider the power of a simple “thumbs up, thumbs down,” survey when it’s integrated with data on usage.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 24, 2020

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of building software, using 6 phases – Analysis, Definition, Design, Coding, Testing and Deployment. The acronym also stands for system development life cycle. People use it interchangeably with software development life cycle. It is, of course, handled by developers.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In our recent Product Management Team Survey we found that in companies doing Agile development, 70% indicated that the Product Manager is also the Product Owner. If you don’t have a good understanding of both roles (whether you are doing both or just interacting with someone doing one of them).

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In October 2021, we surveyed over 1,000 senior executives in the US, with a goal to understand their digital appetite and aspirations for 2022. . The survey revealed interesting insights on Corporate America’s readiness for various digital initiatives, which we consolidated in our 2022 State of Digital Transformation report.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

There are over 50 proposed sessions , including two of mine: Agile Marketing: How to Apply Agile Concepts to Marketing and Best Practices for Product Roadmaps. ” Reminder: Survey about use of Product Management Tools. Here’s just a few of the places you can meet me in person in the next few months (more to come!).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. Want to learn how Userpilot can help you develop your PM skills? Formal research techniques include customer surveys , interviews, focus groups, and prototype testing. Book the demo! What’s the difference?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across the entire product lifecycle: from initial ideation, through the development process, to launch and beyond.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

There are over 50 proposed sessions , including two of mine: Agile Marketing: How to Apply Agile Concepts to Marketing and Best Practices for Product Roadmaps. ” Reminder: Survey about use of Product Management Tools. Here’s just a few of the places you can meet me in person in the next few months (more to come!).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Learning and development: AI uses data analysis and machine learning algorithms to assess employee skills, competencies, and performance. Employee engagement surveys: AI employs natural language processing and sentiment analysis to sift through employee feedback from surveys and other sources.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

There are over 50 proposed sessions , including two of mine: Agile Marketing: How to Apply Agile Concepts to Marketing and Best Practices for Product Roadmaps. ” Reminder: Survey about use of Product Management Tools. Here’s just a few of the places you can meet me in person in the next few months (more to come!).

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Minimum Viable Product allows you to collect user feedback at the early stages of development and facilitates validated learning. MVP is a great risk reduction tool: it allows products or features to fail fast without investing in their development. PMF surveys help you determine if your MVP meets the demands of the market.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 4, 2019

Their A/B testing capabilities can uncover how different changes and features impact success metrics such as purchase rates, trial requests, onboarding, survey results, and more. In addition, Apptentive brings all of this feedback together to develop a more holistic snapshot of the customer experience.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Liz has deep experience in fintech product development. Prior to her time in fintech, she founded two connected car startups focused on car app development and the future of transportation. My thesis was that developers would be building connected car apps. Here’s what Liz had to say! Be empathetic.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This is one of the core takeaways from our latest research, Investing in Digital Transformation and Product Development , featuring insights from 377 product development decision-makers in the US and UK. The data is consistent with my ongoing conversations with chief innovators across several industries.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. You don’t like managing a lot of stakeholders This one is pretty straightforward.

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Centercode

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s clear that continuous delivery and Agile are the way of the future for software development. A survey of software development professionals conducted by the Centercode Product Team showed […]

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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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