The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Effective communication is one of the essential product manager soft skills that involves conveying the product vision, goals, and requirements to diverse stakeholders. Good communication skills also involve conducting market research and interpreting key performance indicators to drive strategic thinking.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works. For starters, having sound knowledge of technical product development will make it easier for you to plan with software engineers.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What tools do you have at your disposal? Product planning improves the alignment of teams and internal stakeholders with the product vision. Perform a competitive analysis of the currently available solutions to the user problem. Carry out customer discovery to validate the problem and your solution. Why is it important?

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 24, 2020

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of building software, using 6 phases – Analysis, Definition, Design, Coding, Testing and Deployment. The acronym also stands for system development life cycle. People use it interchangeably with software development life cycle. SDLC Phases. Deployment.

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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. From Product Vision to User Stories to Roadmap Tools In my experience, product roadmaps work best as an extension to the Product Backlog. Before you try to come up with a product roadmap, fix the vision problem first.

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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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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. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner.

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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. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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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. Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise.

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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. The Product Owner should be the #1 person to go-to for the team if any vision or strategy questions come up. How do you include user research in the product discovery process? is a continuous exercise. Roadmap planning?—?as

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We do it by closing distances that our technologies have just opened. That includes design systems, pattern libraries and guidelines, but it goes beyond that. “We have to figure out ways to bring people back together, and we have to use technology to make that happen.” Louis: Technology is just a tool, right?

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

foot fungal cream, a family-sized bag of chips, and a pair of sweatpants) and the apps and services supported by AWS. By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. Britannica.com ).

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 17, 2017

Roadmapping isn’t an exercise reserved solely for product teams—or rather, it shouldn’t be. Roadmaps are communication tools and are perfect vehicles for teams of all kinds to share their priorities and goals with the rest of the organization. Some product teams love key dates, while others prefer an agile approach.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But then online came along and with it, a new software distribution model emerged (SaaS). But the products being developed, the websites and applications, were essentially marketing tools – glorified digital brochures. Today, however, websites and apps are the product. Speed and agility.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy Organizations Regularly, InfoQ applies the ‘ Crossing the Chasm ’ metaphor to engineering practices, thus covering a part of the agile movement to create learning organizations.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 3, 2018

It’s about synthesizing a lot of information, understanding the system, trying to piece together what is the problem, breaking it down into small manageable chunks so you can analyze it, and then figuring out what is the right solution from there. The same thing goes for solution exploration or really iterating on a concept.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

In this second conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : encouraging teams to discover opportunities through continuous touch points and prioritizing in the opportunity space rather than in the solution space. Here’s an opportunity solution tree. Teresa Torres : Hi, everybody.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Ideally, stakeholders come to the table with informed and researched perspectives as to how they would force rank feature priorities and what the features could achieve once delivered. Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite.

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ProductPlan

MAY 30, 2019

They explore why other solutions aren’t cutting it, and how they’re solving things for the customer with their not-yet-built product. Looking at Apple’s slick and popular product line, it’s obvious they were listening when Steve Jobs said “you have to start with the customer experience and work backwards towards the technology.”.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision. For example, you need to communicate your strategy and vision widely and cultivate an environment of transparency regarding business goals and direction. Vision and strategy should also directly inform your objectives.

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2020

And yes, I get the irony that I’m the co-founder of ProductPlan , software that helps product managers visualize their plan. After all, research consistently shows that humans are wired for seeking comfort, safety, and loss aversion. His research demonstrated that we choose options to avoid loss. More on that later.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

The biggest success stories, from Amazon to Google, are examples of ventures into new markets from established solutions; thanks to their ability to improvise and reap gains from innovation. This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up.

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Product Bookshelf

MARCH 17, 2017

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf. Lean UX is the way you do design in an Agile process. Lean UX teams work “collaboratively, iteratively, and in parallel, with few handoffs, minimal deliverables, and a focus on working software and market feedback.” and is my solution usable?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 29, 2019

Everything we know about work changes with technology. Then, the invention of technology and modern work required the development of management processes. Projects have explicitly defined targets, along with an exhaustive description of timeframes, tools, teams and any other elements that are required. Fourth: indicators !

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

Elizabeth currently leads Strategy and Research and Development for Service & Hospitality at Chick-fil-A and has been a professional speaker for over a decade. So, I’ve been sitting in the business strategy space and research and development, concept testing futuristic elements that might eventually be in restaurants.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2018

Second, you need to discover a product solution to this problem that is usable, useful, and feasible. If you feel pressure to shorten discovery work to “feed the beast,” it usually means you’re making decisions to build software before learning enough to be confident that you should. It was quite the mental shift for the whole team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

A designer, for example, may have been interested in arts as a kid and loved to exercise his creativity. An engineer, on the other hand, is someone who may have been interested in math and loved to find solutions for problems. Why designers measure such things? They don’t really care about the outcome of each team’s sprint.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

The over-focus on Agile rituals such as Standups, Sprint Planning and Retros has meant that we have forgotten the commercial aspects of our role. But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured. Don’t like to take risks?

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Innovatemap

MAY 9, 2019

Innovation FOMO is similar: it is a deep-seated fear that you are missing out on THE NEXT BIG THING, the technological or business transformation that will change everything for your company, and maybe even the world. Get agile with backlog management. We’re not looking for solutions yet. Align on strategic priorities.

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Product Club

MAY 18, 2016

When engineers refer to ‘the stack’, they’re talking about the layers of technologies that are used to provide functionality to your product (i.e. From the moment a customer loads your landing page to when they delete their account, the technologies in the stack handle everything. Write down the names of each technology.

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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. If you don´t have this in mind, you might end up doing things just because people asked for it, not because it is alligned to your product´s vision.

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Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

In the world of Agile IT projects, there are a lot of misunderstandings and expectations of what a CoE is and how a CoE should work to deliver results. A CoE is about teaching others and guiding them so they can add new tools to their professional toolbox. No processes and tools. So what is a CoE? These things are normal.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The challenge here, once again, is that you’ve anchored the customer on your solution without even understanding if they have that problem. Anchored to your solution, iterating from product release to product release, hoping to discover the missing piece that will make your vision come alive. People don’t get it. Garbage in?—?garbage

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