Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Why is it important for project managers to track? And how relevant is it to product management ? A more limited definition includes all the project support activities, like creating documents and managing stakeholders, but no actual work on the deliverables, like writing code. What is the Level of Effort? Let’s dive in!

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become an AI product manager? This guide shows you how to prepare for a career in AI product management. Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That said, landing a job as an AI product manager is not easy.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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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. Turning the Sprint Review into a Sprint acceptance gate where stakeholders sign off features is unfortunately prominent and defies the idea of self-management. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

Instead, we audition product managers (and Designers too for that matter) in the same way actors are auditioned for a movie. The three phases of interviewing for Product Management Roles There are three stages to interviewing for a product management role at Whispir , but the one I’ll cover in-depth here is stage 2?—?the

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

In addition, the more the people around you can exercise their critical thinking skills. But I'm going to talk about a manager. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. However, the senior managers didn't change their actions. The middle managers actively acted against the framework.

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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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Split

MAY 15, 2024

The release phase is more user-centric, as it involves managing expectations, gathering feedback, and ensuring a smooth transition for the end users. To ensure a successful deployments process, software teams should leverage version control systems like GitHub, along with automation and testing frameworks.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager? Behind the Questions… 1.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. Part 2 was why we need managers. 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. They're not.

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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”. In the image below you can see a simple exercise that will help you building this!

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating. 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.

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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. ?? There is a general lack of trust in a Scrum Team’s ability to manage itself successfully.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Have you heard this before as a product manager? If this is you, I have a simple tool you can use to articulate why things ( might ) take as long as they do, explain it in a way that is helpful to those who are unfamiliar with software development, and finally, provide a simple 5 minute exercise you can do each week to get a bit faster.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog. There are many ways to scope out product features but a common practice agile teams use to break down work is Feature Mapping.

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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. Does the instruction of the line manager support the self-organization of the Scrum Team? Alternatively, join 5,850-plus peers of the Slack team “Hands-on Agile” for free.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

Over the past four-ish years in my role as a product manager—despite my best efforts/intentions—I noticed a disturbing pattern. 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 think we need a new framework!”

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

But in all likelihood it causes those teams to groan, and not just because it’s a management buzzword. 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”.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? 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. Impact maps make roadmap management and prioritization easier.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Here at Product Talk, we’re excited about showcasing what good product management looks like. 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.

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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

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

MARCH 3, 2019

Some of the things that I miss about the “other” way of project management The world of product management is very much one of “our way vs. the highway”. We can all agree that agile is a descriptor that everyone is striving to achieve and that anti-agility tends to be anti-success. This makes sense.

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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 1, 2020

To have a successful experimentation program, the product managers need 3 things: 1. 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 powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals. 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. Complex deals require salespeople to exercise different muscles.

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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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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. These goals are set, tracked, and re-evaluated periodically. Additionally, OKRs take effort to create and maintain.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

Roughly every third attendee chose to spend the pre-conference day as part of a smaller group in one of the five workshop sessions on Stakeholder Management, Roadmapping, Product Management Foundations, Visual Thinking and User Story Mapping. Heading to Munich for a public class, and for Agile Munich: [link] [link].

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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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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. Let’s get to it.

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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. It will help individual Product Managers (PMs) get better and drive cross-functional consistency, not just for your Product teams, but for everyone involved.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. All self-managing teams I have worked with greatly benefited from an experienced coach.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Yes, they sell exercise equipment, but what they really sell is an experience. And they control every touchpoint of the consumer journey, from the purchase, to the exercise classes done with that bike. Imagine being a traditional exercise equipment manufacturer and competing with that. Speed and agility.

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