Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. 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. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

Product operations is a complex system, not a clockwork manufacturing system, and it manifests emergent properties. Thankfully, people stop short of mandating developers use tabs or spaces to indent their code. It is these inescapable changes which break systems lacking in clarity of purpose.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent. and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1  We simplify problems, minimize system complexity, and jump to ‘obvious’ solutions.  We

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Long story short, we decided to learn more about the way software development teams approach the bug reporting process. For that exercise we’ve taken a random sample of 3000 bug recordings uploaded to our database in the last 2 months. Is there even such a thing as a standard working day in software development circles?

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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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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. out of 5 stars.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

It’s a combination of IT software and LEGO blocks. ” The team got into iterative development or Agile Stage Gate, and it worked very well. [17:46] Maybe it is time for a tough re-review of the entire set of projects to kill some of them to benefit the whole portfolio. Have a good data system.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

At least in the B2B software product world, I haven't found that to be true. " "Here is another one-line ticket written by non-technical users who don't understand their problem or our system.  We'll  Most of our P1 escalations are for code we didn't write and don't think is good."

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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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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

In an Agile world full of cloud-based solutions, there’s no shrink-wrapped container full of widgets that truly signifies completion. And, there’s always an opportunity to ship code that is far from a “finished” product. Code is checked in. Code is deployed to test environment. Code/feature passes regression testing.

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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

JULY 16, 2021

Online exercises often focus on software. Web testing and design suggestions greatly benefit from this system. In turn, this better facilitates agile refinement of digital products. Participants use their mobile device to do software-based activities in different settings. Remote Usability Study. Field Test Study.

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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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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Online exercises often focus on software. Web testing and design suggestions greatly benefit from this system. In turn, this better facilitates agile refinement of digital products. Participants use their mobile device to do software-based activities in different settings. Remote Usability Study. Field Test Study.

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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.” Lean UX Principles. Assumptions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

As you may expect at IBM, we don't use Gmail; to handle emails, employees use software we developed ourselves called IBM Verse. Some arguments for not using a competitor's software -- like Gmail for email -- include not wanting to be contributing to a rival's bottom line, or for data privacy reasons.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The one thing an MBO system should provide par excellence is focus. The exercise of backlog prioritization forces us to diverge and analyze all the ideas and stories to achieve our objectives. Planning OKRs or roadmaps further prevents learning and being agile. Knowing the why without an execution plan is just a wish.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. Agile development teams think about productivity in terms of overall velocity metrics and backlog/roadmap commitment. Sales needs Product and Engineering to review these ASAP.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Author: First Round Review. Answer: The cost of maintaining new code. The more complex you make your product, the higher the cost of altering that code afterwards. 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. Author: Henrik Kniberg.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It also brings a change in how priorities are communicated between different business departments, how the engineering group operates, and it is a huge trust exercise for the leadership, but if used properly, this could unlock superpowers for the company.”. Does your team have suitable systems? An OKR Methodology Final Review.

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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. Immediately after the training, while everyone was still inspired, we ran an exercise to brainstorm actions we could take straight away to achieve some quick wins. Step 1: What’s next after training?

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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.”. Accountability and empowerment fuel an agile environment. Amazon quickly became the leader in e-commerce. Britannica.com ).

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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. What is the purpose of storing the data?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Move away from this concept and toward the idea of a flywheel instead: feeding energy back into the system instead of success rates diminishing over time. Now companies can roll out new tools five, six, seven times a year and they can be really, really agile and creative in the way they build their customer experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

You do not have to have a software engineering background, but you should at the minimum be a good partner to developers. Perhaps you worked on a digital strategy or an IT system change. For an exercise, let's take a look at the job description for a " Product Manager - Uber for Business " role at Uber in San Francisco.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

You do not have to have a software engineering background, but you should at the minimum be a good partner to developers. Perhaps you worked on a digital strategy or an IT system change. For an exercise, let's take a look at the job description for a " Product Manager - Uber for Business " role at Uber in San Francisco.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. SaaS product managers) to find out how their role differs from an “old-school” software PM—and more importantly, what it really takes to be a SaaS PM. Also, they expect software to release differently. Evan Michner.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

She is also one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. Do you empower small, agile teams? Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? There was no sort of software there. Upcoming Events. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. Shape Up occupies the same territory, serves the same function, as Those Various Agile Methodologies. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Upcoming Events. BoS USA 2019 BoS Europe 2020. Unsubscribe anytime.

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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. And so every product is three products, you multiply five times three got 15 code bases to deal with and it’s like quickly, you can’t do it as a small company. And it was a mess. That worked well.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We’ve come to see that “design thinking” and “agile engineering” are their own systems of organizational structures, workflows, philosophies, and skillsets. In the same way, we can build growth teams as a system too. They are key to how we work within a company.

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