Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Market Requirement Documentation b. To do so, the activities of the PM include: a. Competitor Positioning c.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. By and large, however, the two most popular for today's organizations are the Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. Without and further delay, let's look at two of the most common: Waterfall and Agile.

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process. That is the question. A recent project, a complete re-do of one of our flagship products was needed.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end. This is not agile.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. How to write a user interview: “Lean startups” chapter 2 only (Eric Ries) The second most important thing is to understand how to ask questions. Time goes by, runway decreases. Eventually they run out of cash and shut down.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2019

Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay “We are not agile enough”, she told me. If you work at a large company, or in a relatively traditional industry, you probably know the feeling: You are a big believer in agile and lean. I’ve seen even the smallest startups who are not as lean and agile in their approach as you would think.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Whether the medium is a ‘PRD’ (product requirements document), user story, or link to prototypes, there are endless ‘best practices’ and tips for how to do it best. I wrote up the requirements so comprehensively that technical documentation folks could take a vacation day when writing up the feature. Considered edge cases. Excuse me?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Over the years, the company has publicly documented many of its processes. publication Shape Up – Stop Running In Circles and Ship Work That Matters , Head of Strategy Ryan Singer shares an approach that challenges most of the orthodoxy around Agile (as a framework) but retains all of the spirit of agile (as a philosophy).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. 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. Your decision-making process is slowing you down. .

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Sample app mapped to related API methods Since you are an avid agile ninja, you break down your requirements to deliver value as early as possible. developers, technical documentation writers, and more. About the author I’m a UX Designer turned Product Manager, with experience in startups, freelance, and agile B2B2C companies.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Get written resources Ask for documents sent now. Let there be awkward silence for a moment when you ask what documents, emails, correspondence, PRDs, epics, whatever, you should look at. Often there are always some documents, even if they are old and obsolete. You need to get up to speed, fast. Connect with me on Twitter.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

In companies without a design DNA , Jeff recommends creating an “in-house startup,” where a small design team innovates around a challenge and proves its worth by positively impacting customers. I was writing specifications documents. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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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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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

MARCH 10, 2021

Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash A team working agreement is essentially a documented set of ground rules that a team creates to hold each other accountable to positive behaviors. It’s a common element of a team startup or launch, and strong teams often revisit their team norms. Tribal norms are the team’s superpower.

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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. There is sprint planning, a daily, a retrospective, and a demo.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 31, 2021

As a digital transformation partner, Modus Create has introduced various organizations to Agile collaboration. offers special discounts to startups that are in the early stages of product development. . Pages are documents where people create, edit, and discuss their work. Is it work tracking? Remote collaboration? Automation?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. Customer demands, business priorities, and the capability of current technology are all researched and documented before the commencement of the project. Lean Startup. The core tenets of Agile make a few things pretty clear.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 12, 2019

This was the path of the agile startup, midsize business, and the looking-to-feel-smaller enterprise for many years. At that point, there’s almost no efficacy remaining; your scrum is no longer an agile process. Recently, though, the daily standup dogma has faced backlash. Establish Processes That Scale With Your Team.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Curiously, many consumer startups allocate large ux budgets for the free parts of their products, & surprisingly little towards the ux journeys after initial conversion. A product roadmap is a guiding document that details how your product strategy is to be transformed into a reality. How does one prepare for UX contingencies?

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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. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. You’d gain customer requirements, document them in a Product Requirements Document, throw the spec over the wall, accept a Technical Requirements Document that was in alignment. Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

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?”. What makes startups fail or succeed in their mission?”, Anyone can learn agile product development , basics of software design and development lifecycle, etc.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 20, 2020

The time and energy of the product management team at a scale-up is best focused on two core jobs: Make the implicit explicit Complement (don’t supplement) other teams From the startup … Startup founders, even at the very beginning, take a fairly comprehensive approach to product development. As a startup, the team was small.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Document these goals in a roadmap tool like Aha , ProductBoard , Product Plan , or Trello Now that you have everyone’s ideas, goals, and a backlog full of great initiatives, it’s time to prioritise. This depends on what delivery framework you use, Agile or Waterfall or Mixed.)

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Usersnap

JUNE 27, 2023

But for startups, the challenge of finding 100 willing beta users can feel like an insurmountable obstacle. Maze Maze is a powerful beta testing platform that facilitates the discovery and management of beta users for startups. Conclusion To sum up, beta testing is crucial for startups to refine their product before its launch.

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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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freshtrax

JULY 21, 2021

Document the workshop. After we all have met, discussing and documenting how we will be working together in terms of communication and meetings is crucial. Agile values the whole engagement between the stakeholders, product owners, and the product team, in other words, collaboration.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Though a startup, Connektica uses their combination of radio frequency expertise, software development, and determined entrepreneurs to arrive at the perfect time to tackle some of the issues of mass manufacturing of satellites. Sometimes being highly specialized can limit a business. Connektica appears to be the latter.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

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. There is sprint planning, a daily, a retrospective, and a demo.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 6, 2023

There’s even content on how to land your first product job , what to do when your buyers aren’t your users , and implementing continuous discovery at startups. And if you prefer to watch versus read, there are excellent videos on topics including collaborative decision-making and showing your work to attain stakeholder buy-in.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

The roadmap should not be a complicated document. The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product. It is a product strategy document that is used as a source of truth by the product team, the development team, external stakeholders, etc. We will cover these guidelines below.

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