The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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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. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. Rebooting teams. Roadmaps are stories.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

And what about the product team?? They were using the same manufacturing techniques that Henry Ford created at the beginning of the 20th century: waterfall “assembly line” development cycles packaged up onto physical disks. And the marketing team? Yes, they sell exercise equipment, but what they really sell is an experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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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). Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality. Do this often to reorient teams where and when necessary.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. It sounds like good logic, but there are multiple challenges with building an MVP: Most teams over-engineer their MVP. This is natural.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Back in 2011, Luke Hohmann introduced me to this concept and technique, and I used it with success with a team I was working with at the time. Thanks, Luke!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

If you're applying as a Google product manager , this means you'll need product management experience with leading user research, implementing features, and working with software teams to build deliverables. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation. I told him how we pivoted to college students in D.C.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. I’ve had personally some bad experiences, where I didn’t really get much support. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop the idea. Louis tells them: “ Don’t show up with a talk. Show up with an idea.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Radical Product

MAY 16, 2018

by evaluating opportunities against Vision Fit and Sustainability you’re trading-off getting closer to achieving the vision vs. balancing the practical constraints of mitigating short-term risks. a Low Vision Fit. As a result it’s a Low Vision Fit. Certainly a Low Vision Fit.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”. In the agile scaling framework LeSS, the role is referred to as “ Area Product Owner “ A component owner owns an architecture building block like a user-interface layer or a payment service.

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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. Scrum Team working independently of other teams is an ideal scenario.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. The perfect world does not exist, though. There is only the real world. More: SWOT Analysis 2.

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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 Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Role of the Product Owner According to the Scrum Guide “The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 19, 2019

It means more firepower is required, as the current team (or lack thereof) is no longer able to adequately handle product management as is. This moment also represents an opportunity to determine what an ideal product team would look like. A key question here is: what is the ideal product team size?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Start with WHY As Simon Sinek says in his book “Start with Why” ( here’s his TED talk ), the cornerstone of every company is to know crystal-clear the vision and purpose of its existence (Jim Collings would refer to the focus on a single defining idea as the ‘the hedgehog concept’ ). Vision How?—? The next concentric circle is HOW.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

Smaller, younger firms are by nature more agile, and it’s easier to get change buy-in. But small teams also have less to lose. But when left to their own devices, early adopters can create some bad precedents. This can both create bad habits and turn people off to the tool before it’s spun up.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 3, 2018

What does it mean to not think like a product manager, and how do you undo previous bad habits in terms of thinking? Are we aligned to the company vision? They usually lack a product vision. Agile development processes are more about how you work together. That’s really just one piece of it.

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Product Solving

JULY 29, 2020

While institutions as a whole seem to fall prey to the institutional imperative, product teams seem to fall prey to a different, yet similar, set of imperatives. This isn’t always a bad thing and in many cases (specifically those where the decision being made is reversible) can be beneficial.

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Product Club

MAY 18, 2016

In larger companies, the number of components you touch is often synonymous with the number of teams/groups you need to interact with, and the more alignment you’ll need to gain to execute a project. They’re usually easy to find, and often live on your website’s developer docs. You’ll come across things like agile, scrum and kanban.

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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. By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. And it became quickly overwhelming for us to have so many products with a small team. Basecamp was able to fund the development of hey. Mark Littlewood Fantastic. That’s the real work.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

Do you empower small, agile teams? Dubin the founder in the face of the company has this vision. And I’m not saying that’s good or bad. I’m saying if you’re looking out for those weak signals you can see them a lot more. Are there resources available for little bets? Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Learn the method that Bruce used to focus his team on the few critical things that resulted in the sale of his company for $125 million. I’ve been in product management roles or engineering management or UX or business development or agile enablement. He’ll cover: Why prioritization is important.

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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. I want to help more and more teams take advantage of these practices.

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