The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

Is your team Agile or Fragile? designed using: canva.com With the massive increase in the number of products launched in the past decade, a lot of organizations have adopted the AGILE approach as a system of managing their processes. Agile suggests that the voice of all the stakeholders be heard. Are you ready?

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

. -- 2013: "What is this Agile thing? 2019: "If someone says 'that's not agile' one more time I'm going to quit" We took some things a little too far, without really understanding them. There's work to be done. -- 2016: "I want a product manager who can be great at writing specification documents.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. Software outsourcing services company states that there are two major development methodologies regarding waterfall and agile. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

These are user stories at their most basic level, and if you’re going to master agile product development and become a truly great PM, you need to know how to write actionable stories that have maximum impact, why they’re so important, and when to implement them. Learning About Agile? What Are User Stories? Here’s Everything You Need!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. Ever since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, the concept of becoming more efficient by embracing iterative delivery models and “learning-on-the-go” has captivated senior executives to junior project managers alike.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Signs your organization has missed the point of Agile and it’s become another buzz-word! Treating Agile as just a method not part of a mindset, or culture, is a common contradiction in orgs trying to become Agile organizations. Not grasping the Why of Agile is behind many failures to transform into an Agile organization.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2022

Implementing product ops at your company will reduce your team’s need to produce clunky, one-way communication vehicles like the product requirements document (PRD). the product requirements document, and why would you ever want one? A product requirements document describes every capability needed for a product or feature release.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2023

Agile antipatterns or scrum antipatterns are (poor) practices that are utilized to enhance a process. Nonetheless, they impede your efforts and slow your progress towards attaining Agile objectives, thereby achieving the opposite effect. List of destructive agile antipatterns and how to avoid them 1.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2021

One of the many Agile myths is that it is difficult to manage evolving requirements. However, veterans of the software testing world know that agile development is a superior method to manage the constantly changing needs that many software development projects encounter. It’s a fact that customers always change their requirements?—?they’ll

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. I have always regarded the Scrum product owner as an agile product manager, and I find it an unfortunate mistake that SAFe use the same name for its tactical product role. This has created more confusion and increased the misconceptions of the role.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

But instead of inheriting or installing a cookie cutter process (Read: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall) a better approach is to take a variety of solutions and unify them into one that works best for your organization. . I haven’t had much luck in showing my raw documents and notes to stakeholders–they can’t consume this.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 13, 2018

With passage of time it becomes more and more challenging to make the transition from traditional waterfall method to agile practices. To make things worse either they don’t know about agile or they don’t really care about it. One option is to use the best of both worlds by applying (most of) agile values on waterfall approach.

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DevelopmentCorporate

MAY 4, 2025

The Evolution of Agile User Story Mapping Agile user story mapping has become a powerful technique for creating products that truly center around the customer. It marks a significant departure from traditional, document-heavy requirements gathering. Instead, it offers a more visual and collaborative approach.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

Asynchronous work requires structure – not just fewer meetings, but better workflows, clarity, and shared documentation. Teams need clear agreements on decision-making, communication, and collaboration rhythms. Want the Frameworks to Apply These Lessons?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 10, 2019

How product managers should combine flexibility and rigor in an agile stage-gate process. Just about every organization I have worked with this year wants more agility in their product management processes. To discuss practical ways to add agility and flexibility, our guest from episode 177 is joining us again.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 18, 2021

As teams learn how to work in new ways during an Agile transformation, an organization may consider adopting Agile values in departments outside of IT to support the initiative. In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s? In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s? Prepare for the roundtable.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And then the product manager turns around, writes typically long requirements documents , and then hands that off to the rest of the team. The product manager gathers requirements, documents them, a designer creates a design based on those requirements, and the engineers build software based on those requirements.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. This aligns everyone and ensures that the various deliverables and outputs—for instance, the source code, the end-user documentation, the marketing collateral, and the training materials—fit together.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

Agile development doesn’t just mean faster turnarounds and sprints. In an agile product team everyone is aware of the customer’s problem we solve, and everyone can make decision and react on issues. This is essential to design a product that works well. Designers has to work well with developers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

you’ll identify both functional and non-functional requirements to create a comprehensive Product Requirement Document. Every product and company is one and only you shouldn’t go with the Agile because of its popularity. Product Requirement Documents are living documents that you will always go back check, update, and read.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Agile talks about Iterative & Incremental Software development, which gives it the ability to adapt to changes whenever required. Agile combines both Iterative & Incremental Product Development and reaps benefits from both, thus reducing the cost of development and time to market, with the added benefit of responsive development.

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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. All issues, concerns, and frustrations, should be documented?—?even

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Also, there’s nothing wrong with the agile manifesto of course. Because thinking and acting agile and lean is mainly a mindset and nothing you implement like a new time booking system. So agile and lean are two major keys. But you will end up with an unstable construct of agilised teams but an overall conventional organisation.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I attended a local Agile development conference. Since we log many actions in our product’s database, I used my background in SQL and R to create a shared document with product KPI’s all in one spot. I augment this document with graphs from third-party tools like Google Analytics, Pendo, and Firebase.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2017

Like most of us, when Melissa Perri started as a product manager she started with giant requirements documents, dutifully recording every little detail from stakeholders and turning them into shiny docs for the developers. Then she discovered Agile and churned out features even faster. Say “I don’t know”.

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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.” Many years ago, I was discussing a lengthy requirements document with the product manager in charge of a healthcare product.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A stakeholder map is the best way to document all stakeholders in every project. I first heard of “The Chicken and the Pig” analogy the very first time I went to an Agile seminar. The communication plan is simply a document we created to figure out the pathways of communication with the stakeholder. Communication Plan.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

Process documentation and onboarding of new employees were challenges. Respondents cited a need for a flexible, agile, entrepreneurial mindset. Process documentation and onboarding of new employees were challenges. Respondents shared challenges that come with remote working. Internet connectivity was a problem for many.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . Rapid learning and course correction is a key part of an agile decision-making process. The documented rationale for this particular choice: What assumptions are involved? Stage 1: Define the dilemma.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 10, 2020

Learn more about typical anti-patterns and signs that an organization is causing a toxic team culture, impeding its efforts to become agile. ?? Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers.

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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. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either.

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