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.) Work with the tech lead on this.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Even though the lists get very long, reviewing them regularly enables us to evolve or amalgamate ideas overtime to create some very successful experiments. 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.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15. Within these 15 minutes, we coach people to follow the Circles framework ?—?as

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business. I found out about Modus Create when I was looking for a technical mentor for Atlas, the social review platform I built that received a 5.0/5.0 rating from 63 reviews on the App Store with over 500 users. Conclusion.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Author: First Round Review. So Shopify’s Director of Product, Brandon Chu, developed a framework to streamline that decision-making process. If you’re ever looking for a think-outside-the-box type of exercise that’ll test your UX chops , this post is for you. Dear PMs, it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. Example 2: Tell me about a time you faced technical and people challenges at the same time.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

And this isn’t just in tech. Because they’re really a tech company disguised as a cycling brand. 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. Speed and agility.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. A designer, for example, may have been interested in arts as a kid and loved to exercise his creativity. Yes, you’ve read it right!

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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. It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Nevertheless, speaking of the “role” of Scrum Masters is a suitable path to basic principles of Scrum mastery: Scrum is not a methodology, but a framework. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2018

And companies across the globe have spent a lot of time and effort over the last few months interpreting privacy policies and legal documents, assessing product, processes and marketing strategies, and reviewing vendor relationships to make their products and businesses complaint to the new regulation.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Uh, and I work with people and companies to show them that there are more creative ways for doing our less like technically creative work. Uh, so the, the reviews were mixed. So I was giving a talk at a tech startup conference and I was very energetic. Been Really, uh, look, we all know the report is due. Video Plays].

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. Three Types of Leadership.

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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. Going through reviews dropped by your potential customers on competitors’ products across different review sites to discover areas you can capitalize on.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

As a long time practitioner and coach of Scrum, I’ve observed many teams struggle getting started with the framework. Management struggling with how to address new role definitions like Scrum Master and Product Owner among other aspects of the framework. Change is hard for most people and we often get resistance at first.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Remember: user story creation is a team exercise.) the technical implementation –, and both the team and the PO collaborate on the ‘what’ question: what scope is necessary to achieve the desired purpose.) Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Finally, there is the Sprint Review. The team answers the ‘how’ question?—?the

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Product Management 2.0

JULY 28, 2016

In the span of a single week technology website Network World reviews an average of more than 20 software and hardware products. Consider: Effective portfolio management goes beyond identifying potential growth targets and due diligence to include “portfolio fit.” The software market is constantly evolving.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" "Here is another one-line ticket written by non-technical users who don't understand their problem or our system.  We'll  And execs can't spend 70 hours reviewing 70 sets of product docs.  So "That's not how agile works." Eventually, the CEO gives up.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

But seriously, a Design Sprint is a time-boxed problem-solving format that is part design process, part scientific method and part agile mindset. The framework encourages, almost by force, a collaborative decision process. Are there any technical prerequisites to having an effective Design Sprint and prototypes to test?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

Overall it’s been a great communication tool, community building exercise, and it has helped us to bring transparency to the company. Although an all-hands meeting doesn’t replace the need for formal roadmap reviews and full product demonstrations, there aren’t many better chances to deliver a high-impact message to everyone all at once.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The AARRR framework is always a solid starting point: acquisition , activation , retention , referral and revenue. I also closely monitor and respond to ratings/reviews from the App Store and Google Play Store. and the low Canadian dollar, I’m hearing more tech companies consider opening offices north of the border.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

However, to help fill the gap and ease some anxiety for you, we've outlined below how 12 top tech companies interview and hire software engineers. Browse job openings here: Google Careers The Amazon Interview Photo by Christian Wiediger / Unsplash The software engineering interview process at Amazon is similar to that of other tech companies.

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2023

The emergence of blockchain technology has paved the way for a decentralized financial landscape, transforming the way we interact with money and assets. Decentralized crypto banking challenges this status quo by leveraging the power of blockchain technology. These elements form the backbone of this revolutionary financial ecosystem.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I know that Hope and I hear a lot from the teams that we work with that most product people are really eager and they’re really diligent. Teresa: This is something that I see a lot where somebody reads about a framework or a tool or a technique and they fall in love with it. This is an extension again of that Agile mindset.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You need to collect these efforts within the larger framework of the company. Above: Thus, we seek to build a framework for growth that’s a discipline and organizational structure within its own right. Growth engineer: An engineer who’s focused on technical decisions and implementing experiments.

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