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. Simplicity is essential.

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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. comprehensive documentation.

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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. Simplicity is essential.

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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. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Time goes by, runway decreases.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. .

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. I was writing specifications documents. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Focus on outcomes over output.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. Curiously, many consumer startups allocate large ux budgets for the free parts of their products, & surprisingly little towards the ux journeys after initial conversion.

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

a high-growth bootstrapped startup – you will know the pain of not always being *able* to make the best design decisions. UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. A startup founder who wished to remain anonymous).

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers. Lean Startup.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room. I’d prepare a problem brief?—?a

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. Most companies and product teams have to find the right balance between investing in the new and supporting existing products. On Innovation vs. Execution in Product Management.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 15, 2021

Product analytics tools help teams understand mission-critical metrics so they can transform data into actionable insights that improve the user experience. . For many—especially burgeoning startups—this can be a nonstarter. But before you can use a product analytics tool with your own data, you need to send the data to it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow. In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. We’re just a startup, who’s going to want to hack us? Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Price: Basic plan starts at $25 / month for 5 team members. Collaboration tools.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And this is not a bad thing?—?being from customers and sales staff to teams of marketing, finance and engineering. To be a successful Product Manager, you’ll need to be the conduit between the business and technology teams by becoming the subject matter expert on the customer, the technology and the market.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Like many teams I measured my productivity by output (number of tasks completed) rather than by outcomes (goals accomplished, impact achieved). Like some Agile dev systems, my productivity system was steering me to focus on the here-and-now, and was ill-equipped to help me achieve long-term goals. It breaks planning into four parts?—?Goals,

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. I don’t think we do a good job at defining and hiring for the right skill sets for these teams.

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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. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 17, 2020

Today, more and more teams are discovering the benefits and flexibility that remote working provides; and in an ever changing world, could remote working become the new normal? So actually, when I made the title of like creating like effective remote teams, I think there’s like a lot of stuff that goes into it.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world. This means tailoring your documents to reflect the industry, company and position that you are applying for. They are in fact responsible for developing, designing and marketing a product.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them. Both of these examples would increase the lifetime value of that customer , as well as take the pressure off your sales team to close new business. Speed is of the essence here. Lower support costs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. I don’t think we do a good job at defining and hiring for the right skill sets for these teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Maybe it is because in the early stages of my career, I was a student of Waterfall and the idea of purposely avoiding the documentation stage just seemed irresponsible and actually, impossible to accept. Simply stated, there is no substitute for well-written and researched documentation. And again, my confusion grew.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. It was a great experience working in an MNC that functions with the startup mindset. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Backlog Anti-Patterns The third Hands-on Agile webinar product backlog anti-patterns covers common problems from out-dated and oversized tickets to the part-time proxy product owner and his or her idea repository. It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As a product team grows from one or two individual contributors to a larger, more diverse team, it takes some work to ensure everyone is set up for success. Different personalities, styles, and expectations can create inconsistent experiences for others when dealing with the product team. Empowered and autonomous.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 14, 2022

This creates something of a “hit or miss” approach to my personal development. Assume you are developing a minimum viable product (MVP) to show at a convention, for example. Your teams work is meaningless if you don’t meet the event deadline. People read your documentation.” You choose two to prioritize again.

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