The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way.

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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

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Scrum is a useful framework as long as you use the framework. Those outcomes can help teams decide which agile approach(es) to start with and adapt. Let's start with who wants the teams to use an agile approach. Who Wants the Teams to Use an Agile Approach? Why Does Your Team Want an Agile Approach?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .

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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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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. I’ve done exercises with engineering leaders to create rules and my absolute favorites are “what you build will own you” and “fear complexity”. One of our clients is a deep believer in agile and that agile teams are self-determining.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For today’s post, we sat down with Chris Hockley , an agile delivery manager and lean agile coach at SuperAwesome. The opportunity solution tree provides a visual framework for thinking through decision-making. Did you miss the first post in this series? What did he learn from the process?

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 18, 2020

The global pandemic has accelerated the need for agility, making alignment on what agility means for an organization critical. Gain clarity on what agility means by comparing various models of business agility. Identify factors that will increase your organization’s agility . Business agility definitions 10:40 .

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 28, 2021

Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Middle managers might even fear becoming obsolete after a successful agile transformation and try to stay their ground.

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

In addition, the more the people around you can exercise their critical thinking skills. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. The middle managers actively acted against the framework. I thought this framework would work for us. He asked about the framework.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms adopted Brainmates’ Product Management framework to facilitate a market-driven way of thinking company-wide, and to equip their Product Team with a repeatable process to take the most valuable ideas to market fast. The 10 steps we followed to embed the Product Management framework. Where do you start? What matters most?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

The workshops contained many hands-on exercises that gave the participants the opportunity to learn about each other’s backgrounds and perspectives. One recurring theme was the notion that as product managers we should care more about people than about frameworks, tools, and methods. Blind-Date Dinners. The Future.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each. This more agile work style can be a more efficient way of getting things done. Design: Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2019

Given that its sibling empiricism is an integral part of Scrum as a framework, applying Scrum first principles thinking is also a useful exercise. Join 1,575-plus Agile Peers on Youtube Now available on the Age-of-Product Youtube channel: Scrum Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns. Please share with us in the comments. ??

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

In our specially designed auditions, product managers perform real-world exercises to assess how they think about problems in an environment where nobody from the company knows anything about their experience, their background, or their formal education. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

To make these sessions most valuable we mixed in some blue-sky brainstorming with some themed discussions and group exercises to generate ideas in a certain area. A lot of teams use the ICE or PIE Frameworks which basically estimate the Impact, Certainty of results and Effort for each experiment and create a combined score.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user. That is what I´m calling “magical framework”. So, in this post I want to do the opposite: I won´t give you one more “magical framework”.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

We’re “agile” (mostly). I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. I even facilitated a few design sprints and started sprinkling in concepts from these frameworks in meetings with stakeholders. I think we need a new framework!”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Download ’71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Hiring Agile Imposters’ 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Scrum is not a methodology but a framework. The Product Owner is the least well-defined accountability within the Scrum framework and?—?at Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

By Jasmine Slivka The idea of Agile is an iterative approach to software development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once with an arbitrary deadline (as with traditional “waterfall” approaches). But Agile is not a one-size-fits-all solution. User stories are useful exercises.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

You might start out doing PM one way at the start of your career, and then have developed a completely different set of frameworks and techniques by the end. It’s mostly a thought exercise, so don’t worry about not having the right experience. What main changes would you make to [our product]?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Probably, because the organization is reserving the job to “agile coaches?”

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape. Employing Blended Frameworks. We see increased usage of frameworks like MoSCoW , DACI , and RICE , but product teams also realize that one framework must not rule them all.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Key learnings. Where to buy?

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

This article will dive deep into the concept of feature prioritization and introduce the top frameworks for successful product management. There are different frameworks and methods for feature prioritization to make the job easier. Here are 15 of the best framework techniques to consider: 1. Buy a feature template in Miro.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

That gives the team a framework for more constructive discussion and shared empathy as we inspect actual examples. The last time I ran this tiny exercise, we collectively identified a few different kinds of stories, each needing its own treatment: [1] Highly technical, not much product management value.

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Product Management 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Organizations eager to do a better job building and launching products that win in the market are smart to look to product management frameworks. Who wants to waste time reinventing the wheel when market opportunities require speed and stakeholders are obsessed with agility? Key #2: Set clear objectives.

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