Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. I used to be a QA engineer. As an output of all these meetings, I ended up building a document summarizing the different tasks of a product manager during the product lifecycle.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. Today we are talking about using a modified version of Scrum for hardware projects.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I expect most people reading this now would say “we are agile”. The nasty truth is that very few companies are agile, it is a big illusion, and it is stalling your company and your growth. Companies who are agile stand out above the others with innovation and market share. We need a serious talk about The Agile Illusion.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "How do I write a good user stories that can get into Jira correctly?" . -- 2013: "What is this Agile thing? 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

JUNE 23, 2022

Many of us think that detailed documentation in JIRA or Confluence, or a 10 page product requirements document is what is required to create shared understanding, but it isn’t. Documentation is never a proper stand-in for conversation. Documentation is never a proper stand-in for conversation. Don’t sandbag, either?—?leaders

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Let’s not forget that software product managers need to keep the product team, scrum team, engineering team, and development team in check. That means you should be familiar with agile methodology and Scrum. What is the difference between a product manager and a software engineer manager?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In a traditional company, a product manager sits in the middle between business stakeholders and the engineering team. And then the product manager turns around, writes typically long requirements documents , and then hands that off to the rest of the team. He argues that we want our teams of engineers to be missionaries.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Lastly, to make the most out of this framework, it’s best if your organization has already implemented some variation of the Agile Methodology. Epics and User Stories, on the other hand, should be concrete features or tasks that are useful when explaining and assigning work to designers or engineers. Ions Engine. Enough talking.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Between commercial, product, and engineering leadership, a potential anecdote to rebuild trust and transparency can be instituting a simple, scheduled Product Steering process. Depending on how fast the business is moving, the types of things you are building, and size of the engineering team, decide on a monthly or quarterly cadence?—?no

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers love to crank out code. The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Agile has put the focus of the software development process squarely on the sole process of writing and delivering code.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 21, 2019

This may be particularly amplified for those who find themselves in Product roles at companies that still operate in the more traditional ‘Business Analyst/Software Engineer’ paradigm, where ‘requirements’ are cold-bloodily handed from one business unit to another. You’ve guessed it; the Software Engineers.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Well, before, product knew what was going on and engineering didn’t.” and one engineer in Iceland. and one engineer in Iceland.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Plan your product: “story mapping” (Nielsen Norman Group) Often teams rely on lengthy requirements documents to move from a vision to a product. Work with engineers: “Agile Product Management with Scrum” (Roman Pichler) There are zillions ways to apply scrum. To build your first product you don’t have to read anything.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

For example, the intern can be sent to work with engineering teams. That includes product designers, product owners, user researchers, data scientists, product marketers, and engineers. They create user guides, FAQs, and training manuals and ensure documentation is up-to-date and accessible to all relevant parties.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Learn Agile. Documentation. Making giant, meaningless documents. Agile training.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2019

But in the context of planning, agile software development practitioners are wise to take Eisenhower’s words to heart. “In Eisenhower Why agile teams need a product roadmap There are many discussions out there on both the importance of, and lack of importance of agile product roadmaps. Instead, we consider the idea of planning.”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Resilience: The Agility to Adapt and Overcome Resilience is about more than recovery; it’s about using setbacks as stepping stones. These meta skills are the engines driving product managers to turn their visions into reality. Navigating this maze was akin to delving into the depths of a complex and confusing beast.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 17, 2018

Waterfall or Agile? We were the epitome of a linear-driven organization with our phased scoping documents, business cases, product requirements documents (PRDs) and development plans. In recent research conducted by Sequent, a solid majority of firms indicated they use either waterfall or a combination of waterfall and agile.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2018

Agile teams have a lot of moving parts, and it can be difficult to understand where product responsibilities fall across team members. For example, if a product manager focuses most of their time externally on customers, the internal engineering team’s needs can get lost, and the team may suffer.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2020

Every day I experience how working in channels makes information more transparent, lets our teams be more agile and helps me stay connected with my coworkers in real time. Messaging is only the beginning Our product and engineering teams have a goal to “make Slack the company where we can do the best work of our lives.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem Technologies This is the process of writing code and using tools to automate the user interface (UI) testing of front-end components of websites, desktop applications or mobile applications. But, getting it right goes beyond the coding of the tests and the tools you use.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2018

By evaluating ideas and making decisions based on data, product managers and their engineers can eliminate the guesswork and avoid wasted time and effort. Agile is an Essential Prerequisite. They get you direct feedback from your customers, immediate results, and qualitative insights you can use to re-prioritize engineering resources.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

Once upon a time, I thought writing a good set of agile user stories with specific Given/When/Then acceptance criteria was the most important part of a product person’s job. I had recently made the switch from software engineering to product and was committed to spelling out requirements in a user-centric way that engineers could understand.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

Empower Your Teams if you Want to be Truly Agile. Agile and Lean are both experiencing this at the moment, as they have been oversold as the solution to too many problems. Agile and Lean are not inherently poor or incorrect, rather they’re being used to solve problems they weren’t designed for.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Product Management in an inter-disciplinary role which tries to marry Business strategy and Marketing with Design and Engineering, hence making better products that users need. Market Requirement Documentation b. Based on the Product Roadmap, design and development sprints are planned in an agile manner with weekly or biweekly targets.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to Agile and Scrum best practices, product owners and product managers should be two different people. In an idealized vision of product development in an Agile setting, product owners handle the tactical execution of product strategy while product managers concentrate on managing that strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Everyone pokes fun at the user interface (UI), but it’s useful for document and content management, and it’s very easy to learn, especially for non technical users. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day. However, there was one big problem.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Regardless of the context, there are some fundamental principles guaranteed to improve your workflow: align your priorities with business goals, ensure you collaborate across your cross-functional team, adopt an Agile mindset, and don't lose focus on the importance of onboarding. Prioritize and plan a roadmap of features.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. That was much better than shipping because the lead engineer's wife threatened divorce. The tester is involved from the start of the project.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Few takeaways for me in the thread below: 1) Diligence+ thoughtfulness > agility Need to keep this in mind in the ‘move fast and break things’ culture. Actionable tips on how to send a document in advance and following up with decision makers to give their feedback. Organised by @nextbigwhat and moderated by @cnha.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

Similarly, Product Managers write the product requirement documents (PRD) after doing user research, interviews, competitive research, conceptual planning for product ideas, and wireframing. ? According to some studies, roughly 40% of US top 100 grossing films in recent years were written by Directors themselves.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Is the role of product operations about building and documenting processes—guided by the needs and requirements of product? Or is it about refining, documenting, and shepherding the ongoing use of established processes? Documenting existing processes and systems within the product team for broader circulation. Data is important.

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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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