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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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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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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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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Product Warrior

MARCH 14, 2023

Scrum has been touted as one of the most popular agile frameworks for software development, and its popularity continues to grow. One such area is sprint planning, which has become a budgeting exercise for allocating engineering efforts to features or tasks rather than a tool for setting sprint goals.

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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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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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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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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

TL; DR: 11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. is a critical success factor to step up the transformation game: You want to become agile, not “do agile.”

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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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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

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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Value vs Effort framework. Relative – used in Agile frameworks to estimate the story points by comparing the effort of all tasks to one another. Assign values to your level of effort scale Based on the outcomes of the estimation exercises, you next assign the effort value to each task.

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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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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

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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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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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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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

A product management process is a strategic framework that guides product managers and their teams through the product lifecycle – from ideation to launch and beyond. Imagine you have a fitness-tracking SaaS platform that lets people set their fitness goals, track their exercise routines, and monitor their progress.

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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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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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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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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. The tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. What is impact mapping in agile?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 4, 2019

TL;DR: Webinar Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns The tenth Hands-on Agile webinar sprint retrospective anti-patterns covers twelve anti-patterns of the sprint retrospective?—?from The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum framework. Agile Transition?—?A Learn more from the Scrum Guide.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. There is no such thing as an agile Nirwana where everything is just perfect. exercise is a good opener for a retrospective from time to time.)

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2019

We can all agree that agile is a descriptor that everyone is striving to achieve and that anti-agility tends to be anti-success. Agile does not necessarily equal innovation and dynamic collaboration, nor does Waterfall equal inefficiency and compartmentalization. This makes sense. Such is the cardinal sin of waterfall.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 1, 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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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Implementing a goal-setting framework that sets the bar high sounds like a no-brainer, right? The objectives and key results framework establish direction and creates an opportunity for growth. You might not be ready to jump in right away to implementing an OKR framework, and that’s OK. OKRs keep everyone informed at all times.

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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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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s almost like the analogy to Waterfall versus Agile—it’s small steps. This common issue helped her develop a framework to make decisions regarding certain discovery tactics. Her book is full of flexible and customizable exercises to do with your team to create value for your customers. I really like the way Teresa thinks.

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