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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Product Management University

AUGUST 12, 2020

The B2B Product Manager August 2020 looks at the blessing and the curse that goes with marketing and selling feature-rich products. There’s one key strategic part of product management that got lost in the agile shuffle. Learn how to bring it back, plus how to quantify your market focus. So, What Are You Selling?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

The conference drove home the importance of acknowledging this reality early on, urging product leaders to embrace agility to succeed. In one exercise, she had the audience imagine that they worked at a medical device company that recently released a wearable product to improve memory.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 27, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. The Product Backlog may also be adjusted overall to meet new opportunities.”

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Welcome to the third installation of our digital transformation interview series, where successful product and marketing leaders share what’s top-of-mind, how to overcome obstacles, where the marketplace is going, and tips for success. Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. How can teams respond quickly to what they learn?

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The Secret PM Handbook

JULY 20, 2018

As an exercise for myself, I decided to take a mental model that’s usually used for decision making – a 2×2 matrix – and apply it to marketing. One thing we have to do in the go-to-market portion of our jobs is come up with good ways to talk about our product versus our competitors. Click To Tweet.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 10, 2019

How product managers should combine flexibility and rigor in an agile stage-gate process. Just about every organization I have worked with this year wants more agility in their product management processes. They want to get new products to market faster and release enhanced versions in less time.

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 12, 2014

Agile is not magical. Changing from a waterfall process to an agile process changes how your team works, and helps eliminate inefficiencies. Adopting an agile process does not let you magically have a more successful product. What makes agile powerful is also makes it dangerous. Triage and Urgency.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Once the Product Owner has refreshed the team’s understanding of what the product vision is, we move on to the product box exercise.

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Split

MAY 15, 2024

Release, on the other hand, focuses on the strategic decision of when and to whom the software will be made available, aligning with business objectives and market readiness. In Agile and DevOps methodologies, deployment and release work together to enable rapid, iterative delivery of software.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. is a continuous exercise. This is actually one of a few metrics, that can provide some insight on how “agile” product discovery actually is. That should be a continuous exercise. How do you learn about new ideas and requirements?

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms is a medium-sized New Zealand software company who wanted to evolve its sales-led culture into a market-led culture. Facilitating a market-driven way of thinking. customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, etc). customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, etc). Where do you start?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

It could be the creative assets of a marketing team or the process improvement planning of a consultancy. c) Think like your user : An empathy exercise can help the whole team clarify their customers’ and users’ pain points. Even a short empathy exercise can help align the team on the user’s pain points and needs.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

There are many risks and uncertainties like the supply chain, market size, and expected profitability. ” The team got into iterative development or Agile Stage Gate, and it worked very well. [17:46] They’ve burdened their Stage-Gate process with too much paperwork and check-the-box exercises. Apply Lean principles.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. Hence, an appropriate compromise is a continuously inspected and adapted roadmap, probably every six to twelve weeks, depending on the product, the organization, and the target market. Agile Experiments ?? not just once a year. Well, then: ??

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

Since the beginning of 2019, the Hands-on Agile meetup in Berlin has been exploring how to apply Liberating Structures to Scrum. a 32-pages workbook provided to each attendee all information for the exercises. At the Hands-on Agile meetups before, we tried as a common theme everyone can relate to Berlin’s public transport system.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2019

It means the engineers, designers, marketing and executives are equally confused about their product. Sippey recommends we make use of agile and keep to ordered lists only. Practise this exercise during crucial conversations in one-on-ones, with management, and during staff meetings. For how to bring a product to market?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

Once upon a time, I thought writing a good set of agile user stories with specific Given/When/Then acceptance criteria was the most important part of a product person’s job. Every time I was presented with a new initiative, I rushed to expand it into a set of standard agile stories using the template : As a _, I want so that _.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. Companies must react to changes in market dynamics, technology, and customer needs. Too much unpredictability can confuse the market—and your sales and marketing teams—while making it hard to create and stick to budgets or plans regarding staffing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2024

This has gone through (and will continue to go through) several iterations, but the notion is to start by thinking about your broad industry/market and then break it down. Think of it as the Industry or Market you’re operating in. For example, Lululemon sells activewear and is focused on active people.

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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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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Their point of view combined with their experience brings multiple products from ideation to market. Best practices are fascinating thought exercises, but if they don’t affect change, that is all they are. Avoid agile-fall. A vast breadth of insight and the best practices gives a product leader a unique insight.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There’s going to be a lot of designers, marketers, and product managers reading this and thinking to themselves, ‘what the hell is he talking about?’, No, but my own experience and the evidence elsewhere in the market has shown it tends to lead to better outcomes. an agile and/or digital transformation). Nothing is static.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Pragmatic Institute has a host of other resources, including a blog, educational articles, a magazine, ebooks, a podcast, and webinars that cater to marketers, product marketers, and product managers/professionals. product manager, product owner, product marketing, etc.) product manager, product owner, product marketing, etc.)

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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

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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UX Studio

JANUARY 10, 2019

Practice with hands-on exercises, learn how to conduct interviews and usability tests. UX Research in Agile. Marketing professionals. exercises to practice. What UX Research Methods to use in different phases of product design and development? – throughout Discovery, Validation, Prototyping, and Measurement.

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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. Plot summary.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

Every company competes in a dynamic market. Many teams, when adopting agile, scaled agile, or any agile-at-scale operating model, don’t actually change how they make decisions or how they orient to purpose, they only change planning cadences. Staying the course is drifting off course.

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Userzoom

JUNE 13, 2019

Our guides on this exercise in eating-our-own-dogfood/drinking-our-own-champagne (delete whichever turns your stomach least) are UserZoom’s Senior Product UX Researcher Becky Wright and Lead Product UX Researcher, Rose Leitner, who have taken it upon themselves to use the full power of UserZoom to make UserZoom a better product for you.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

(This depends on what delivery framework you use, Agile or Waterfall or Mixed.) There are many ways to scope out product features but a common practice agile teams use to break down work is Feature Mapping. Release Roadmap = High-level timelines on when to expect each feature of your product will be released to the market.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 24, 2020

This is where you do your market research, conduct customer interviews, research your competition and conduct surveys. The feedback that you gather helps you analyze your product market fit. In the software development life cycle agile models, testing can happen more frequently. Agile Model. Definition. Waterfall Model.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Depending on how you communicate your product’s vision, this might include competitive and market analysis reports, revenue projections, detailed personas, user journey maps or story maps. Oh, and if you are a feature product lead, you can totally do this same exercise for just your feature! Point your tickets. Sprint planning.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

During our conversation, we discussed how Teresa got into product coaching, what the current market means for Product teams, and we learned a few key strategies from her book. The Current Market Is Good News for Product Peeps We’re seeing a lot of folks in SaaS affected by layoffs and cuts on spend. But what about the Product people?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn. High performing agile teams can move a story through design, development and implementation with awesome velocity, tool and process discipline. What is planned and shipped feels opaque and out of synch to the less agile parts of the organization.

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