The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. Even though the lists get very long, reviewing them regularly enables us to evolve or amalgamate ideas overtime to create some very successful experiments.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Review design. I’ve been told by multiple engineers in the past, that modern agile development + a lack of vision results in them feeling like they are just a worker on an assembly line. Review sprint work in retro. Oh, and if you are a feature product lead, you can totally do this same exercise for just your feature!

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). Strategies are more designs than they are decisions, i.e., they are more constructed than they are chosen (they are not to be confused with making plans/roadmaps).

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2019

Get everyone out of the office once a week for lunch, take a brainstorming session outside of the office, get some exercise. About Tech. Do this especially if you’re not a technical product manager , and you’ll pick up some knowledge about what a developer’s day is like, what their pains are and how you can support them.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Author: First Round Review. But I’ve always been fascinated with Spotify’s famous squad, tribe, Survivor-esque sounding setup—especially as agile becomes status quo for product orgs, and more companies shift to this specific engineering culture. Dear PMs, it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups. Author: Henrik Kniberg.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership. Holding regular Agile retrospectives can be very useful in this regard and allow a safer communication to happen within the team. Educate stakeholders.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. 2016 – Accelerating Growth.

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Split

AUGUST 25, 2020

Pato – In shaping the idea that became Split, we recognized that feature flags and experimentation sit at the foundation of agile development principles. (Or These are agile principles that are being adopted in every company that produces software. We like to say that our customers are our change review board.

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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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All About Product Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

We recently finished a scrum sprint; during the sprint review the technical team gave a demonstration, to senior business owners, of the newly developed functionality and bug fixes they had done during the sprint. The question is how does the technical team know how much time to spend demonstrating each user story?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

I call these goals product or release goals and I capture them on a product roadmap. Use a Product Roadmap to Plan Multiple Releases. The former can be nicely done with a product roadmap. Sample goals include acquiring new users, increasing conversion, reducing cost, and removing technical debt to future proof the product.

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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

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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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent. Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

And learn a lot about agile product management, Scrum, empiricism, product design, and user experience along the way. If you intend to live up to Scrum and agile product development’s full potential, creating a shared understanding of how empiricism works among all co-workers in your organization is essential. Execution of them is not.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Open 24 hours a day, the site was user-friendly, encouraging browsers to post their own reviews of books and offering discounts, personalized recommendations, and searches for out-of-print books.”. Amazon is a multinational technology company known worldwide as a mega e-commerce marketplace. Britannica.com ). to get a feature done.”.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

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. That’s the job of the development team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

There’s no use in taking a few months to build an epic 40-page report on the next move when the idea is to be fast and agile. There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. You need to do a bit of due diligence on the different types of products or features. Hello Paul.

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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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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

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ProductPlan

MAY 30, 2019

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.”. For example, 90% of Amazon Web Services roadmap is driven by broad customer requests , indicating advance knowledge of a clear demand.

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ProductPlan

JULY 3, 2019

But there are also big picture goals to extend the product suite, attack new markets and support emerging technology platforms. Creating a product roadmap containing both sets of plans might result in a document that’s super specific on the left while being fuzzy and amorphous on the right, which might be confusing to some viewers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

This practice is clogging the Product Backlog, may lead to cognitive overload and makes alignment with the ‘big picture’ at portfolio management and roadmap planning level very tough.) Remember: user story creation is a team exercise.) Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Finally, there is the Sprint Review. An alignment?—?did

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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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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While many product managers are familiar with agile methodologies for managing a development team, I don't believe it provides a full view of how a product manager should be effectively managing their overall product process. I've typically seen this done as a single slide or single-page document.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The need to “sell” the value of roadmaps and architecture to Sales. Agile development teams think about productivity in terms of overall velocity metrics and backlog/roadmap commitment. Can we make commitments against the top 2-3 big roadmap items and get them done when we say we will? The Sales-Driven Roadmap.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

Roadmaps. / Overall it’s been a great communication tool, community building exercise, and it has helped us to bring transparency to the company. Why Most Outcome-Based Roadmaps Fail (and How to Keep Yours From Doing the Same). An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. ROADMAP TEMPLATES Product Roadmap.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

Also roadmap flexibility. The roadmap changes more often in SaaS, meaning more communication with stakeholders. 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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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Your product roadmap is not a model, an algorithm or an artifact, it is an ongoing political process that requires careful management of the relevant stakeholders. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. Watch the video below.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

I think I was the seventh or eighth developer that joined Braintree, and did a bunch of different things from purely technical roles, to product roles, to hybrid roles. I report to the GM, or the CEO of Venmo, and I’m really responsible for the roadmap, and strategy, and what we’re doing next. . Weakness in others.

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Product Solving

JULY 29, 2020

Doing this exercise is called inversion and it helps you see the problem in a new light. They see changes in the market or changes in technology as a burden rather than something that would help their product stay on the forefront. Letting the agile methodology get in the way of doing great work. Follow Tyler on Twitter

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. We don’t we’re not we don’t follow agile methodologies, we don’t follow a bunch of different ways of doing things. And it’s technically incredibly complicated.

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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 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. ” There’s this tenet from the Agile Manifesto that’s really important, which is that each team owns the way they work and they’re constantly iterating on it to make it better.

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