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

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. Agile Experiments ??

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Product Culture

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There are numerous ways to come up with a product vision. Hopes and Fears is a simple exercise where each individual writes their hopes for the product’s future on one color of Post-it note or index card and then writes their fears on another color. Other ways to reach a vision? Tell me a story. Interested?

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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. is a continuous exercise. That should be a continuous exercise. How do you learn about new ideas and requirements?

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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

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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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

Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. First, it’s important to understand whether the customer feedback represents a true need and aligns with the product vision. In case you haven’t built a product vision yet, I highly recommend creating one.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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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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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Radical Product Thinking is a clarion call for vision-driven product development over the iterative approach that has, for many, become the orthodox approach to product strategy and management. For Radhika, vision-driven product development embodies the power of long term thinking over short term. The problem with iterative approaches.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. While some of this rapid recalibration is healthy—and might be heavily influenced by the Agile onion impact on planning —executive teams, board members, and investors take little comfort in a zig-zagging product plan. Achieving great things takes planning.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. 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.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Relentless execution will ultimately determine whether you'll be able to make your product vision a reality. 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.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Best practices are fascinating thought exercises, but if they don’t affect change, that is all they are. Avoid agile-fall. The company gets to be better at making changes because the changes tie to a realistic vision. If they don’t see you as credible, your value decreases. Digital Transformation Blues.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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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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Radical Product

MAY 5, 2020

These examples reflect the growing dissatisfaction of the cohort that entered the tech industry inspired by the vision that technology and innovation were going to change the world. Does it mean I have to stop using Lean or Agile? Lean and Agile are both excellent methodologies that I still use and highly recommend for execution.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2019

There’s a huge difference between agile development and what I see as a shipping culture. Agile Agile development is about short, iterative and incremental development cycles. Companies can work in sprints, invest time and money on agile tools, scrum masters, ceremonies, and still ship new product releases once a quarter.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

We’re “agile” (mostly). We narrowed our focus to just nailing down our product vision statement. We focused on a North Star metric that is reflective of our vision. Throughout the discussions we utilized “silent brainstorming” and “note and vote” exercises to avoid the pitfalls of the first meeting.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2020

Here are a few thoughts for how product managers – especially those in an agile development environment – can embrace uncertainty and live with the inevitable discomfort. There’s an expectation of product managers to spell out the vision for our products and what the product looks like one or two years down the road.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product. Compatible with agile methods for development. Let’s shed some light on this.

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Radical Product

MAY 23, 2018

It was an interactive session where we presented elements of Radical Product thinking and interleaved it with exercises so each person could develop a measurement strategy for their product/ organization, that was grounded in their vision and strategy. A vision-driven approach and a fast feedback-driven execution are complementary.

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Radical Product

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Methodologies such as Lean and Agile have taught us to harness the power of iteration so that we can execute faster?—?they When our iterations are not driven by a clear vision and strategy, our products become bloated, fragmented, and driven by irrelevant metrics?—?they Tesla’s Model 3 was driven by a vision for change?—?building

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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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. 566 global ratings.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. Your roadmap needs to tell a story of how you’re going to reach your product vision. But the training was intense! Managing up.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

In order to do this, you need teams who are familiar with methods like “agile “ , which facilitate collaborative teams and a quickfire approach to problem-solving. This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up. Day 4 is where you put in all the work.

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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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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 24, 2020

In the design phase in SDLC, you need to be as visual as possible about your vision. In the software development life cycle agile models, testing can happen more frequently. The software testing life cycle is not a resource intensive exercise, but your goal should always be to minimize your bugs caught. Agile Model.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Our vision. Throughout the creative process, there were plenty of thoughtful team discussions and healthy disagreements about what brand changes would best reflect our forward-thinking vision for the future of insights. Yesterday, we launched a fresh new logo and brand identity across our platform, website, and social media presence.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Our vision. Throughout the creative process, there were plenty of thoughtful team discussions and healthy disagreements about what brand changes would best reflect our forward-thinking vision for the future of insights. Yesterday, we launched a fresh new logo and brand identity across our platform, website, and social media presence.

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