Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As product managers (PMs), we spend a significant portion of our time talking to customers and understanding their experiences to shape our roadmap and strategy—you may have even done an interview with us! Then, we have monthly reviews of what we’re shipping and reflect on whether we’re hitting our goals. Product Development.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  The context: like this recent post , my coachee and I were talking about every product leader’s frustration that our go-to-market-side partners (GTM) and stakeholders have rampant “roadmap amnesia” and assume their next request is easy and are always trying to push 100 pounds more into our 5-pound R&D process. 

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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Modus Create

JUNE 20, 2023

We‘ve identified six digital product development trends gaining traction among enterprises across industries and markets. These trends are based on feedback from our projects with several global 2000 enterprises and reinforced by a prominent uptick in Google Trends (which tracks what people search for over a period of time).

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Unify data and simplify partner integrations with enterprise-class security and reliability. Mobile in-app feedback tools & solutions.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. With Dual-Track Agile, the development team participates in the discovery track – often led by the lead engineer, the UX designer, and the product manager. Stakeholders).

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 21, 2022

There is (perhaps) nothing more fundamental for product managers and their teams than the product roadmap. Product teams refer back to their product roadmap to understand how a product or solution will develop over time. Product roadmaps help prioritize critical features and sketch out the scope of the product's development.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

Mid-market and enterprise sales deals are undeniably complex. When implemented correctly, the result of leveraging the Agile Arrow is powerful: you are able to prioritize the people, work and outcomes that will make, or break, the deal. Act I: Embracing agile principles. 27 different stakeholders from their organization.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Whether you are a large enterprise with vast resources or a startup with a limited budget, it’s common to find that you have product development problems that are either not identified or not properly addressed. Things like code reviews, source code control, automated testing and shared code style guides are all important basic practices.

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Modus Create

JUNE 20, 2019

Jira is already widely known as the market-leading collaboration software. When Atlassian acquired AgileCraft , it added another powerful tool for enterprise management. In this post we’ll discuss the features of Jira Software, Portfolio for Jira, and Jira Align, and when each of them fits your organization’s needs.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

12 Product Management Myths | Due to its murkiness, there are a few common myths that plague product management across industries and company size. Ratings and Reviews: Where to Start and How to Win | You likely understand the importance of making a good first impression through your app’s positive ratings and reviews.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

38% of large enterprises plan to spend over $1 million on digital initiatives in 2022. After being disrupted by nimble, agile players for decades, large enterprises are fighting back with significant investments in digital initiatives. 41% of large enterprises will invest in IT modernization in 2022.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2021

More data and more code in more places increase your threat surface, creating opportunities for malicious actors online. . Here’s what a comprehensive security assessment looks like: Step 1 – Due Diligence. Source code of existing applications. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of the organization .

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

What are the top companies to hire remote software developers from? Regardless of the stage the project is at, companies can hire remote engineering teams to create more agile workflows. Whether its a fully-functional enterprise solution you’re after, or a team to craft custom native Android and iOS apps, Rentech can help.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. That said, it's not that agile digital adoption platform as one might expect. UserGuiding reviews.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Businesses and individuals are increasingly making SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications their choice software platform for their business needs. Are you an enterprise business leader or a start-up leader planning to offer your software product as a SaaS platform? billion in 2020 to $307.3 billion by 2026.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. Any agile practitioner may recognize these as poor practices and it is surprising how easily a team can succumb when operating in a high pressure, reactive environment. Long standups.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

neither the product nor roadmap are ever static. 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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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. And I diligently added the stories to the backlog. I diligently prioritized and managed the epics and stories, moving them into the next two or three sprints in the sprint backlog. Feature request?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent. and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1 I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

At the time, he says the company’s co-founder and CTO personally reviewed almost every product decision. As Lynch recalls, the CTO was busy, but the review process seemed to work well while the team was still small. And while this advice can generally help your team be more agile, it may not apply 100% of the time.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

At least in the B2B software product world, I haven't found that to be true.  Most of our P1 escalations are for code we didn't write and don't think is good."  And execs can't spend 70 hours reviewing 70 sets of product docs.  So "That's not how agile works."

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Modus Create

APRIL 13, 2022

This year, Team ’22 featured four primary themes: Agile & DevOps , ITSM , Teamwork Culture, and Open Work Management. For now, Atlassian Data Lake will include data from Jira Software and Jira Service Management. It offers both a no-code interface and the ability to query the data lake using standard SQL queries. .

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Why is change management in enterprise software so hard? Users want to use software that will make it easy to collect data. Software developers usually don’t want to work in Microsoft Sharepoint. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

We will review each smart glass available today, including the newest entrant, Jio Glass. However, the product roadmap continues to remain hazy. This pivot is also a great example of implementing agile methodology at such a grand scale. The post Smart Glass Product Review – Jio Glass, Apple Glass, Google Glass, Etc.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond. He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Product Leadership.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code. We were Agile, with daily standups, two week sprints and detailed estimations.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

To remain competitive, organizations must be able to adopt digital transformation strategies that are agile, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. By taking a holistic view of the entire process, organizations can identify areas of improvement and make the necessary changes to become more agile and responsive to customer needs.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

A product manager building a SaaS product of some sort, working in Agile software development practices. A product manager in a startup will not have the same challenges as one in a scale-up or even one going through digital transformation in a large enterprise company. Core Product Manager. Platform Product Manager.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

– How to use your roadmap to drive experimentation to hit company objectives. You were hyper agile and pushed code and new features weekly, if not daily! Your old agile habits have led you astray. I blame the roadmap. And yet, a badly done roadmap can pave the way to a feature-filled product death.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. The need to “sell” the value of roadmaps and architecture to Sales. Agile development teams think about productivity in terms of overall velocity metrics and backlog/roadmap commitment.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2021

The best part, they have built it code-free inside Userpilot: A resource center built in Userpilot for Postfity. #4 Userpilot , a customer engagement software tool puts all the elements above at your fingertips without writing any code or calling on your engineering team to implement them. Userpilot customer engagement software.

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