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Faking Agile Metrics

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics?—?An An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books?—?A Velocity?—?the in my experience?—?delivers

Agile 60
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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives

The Product Coalition

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. Have a good data system. You can create a computer simulation or animation.

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Problem Statements Provide Purpose

Tyner Blain

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

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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The Work of a Strategist

The Product Coalition

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. He did, however, have a few gems.