The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

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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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns?—?the

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . Continuously review your assumptions and find your blind spots.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 12, 2014

Agile is not magical. Changing from a waterfall process to an agile process changes how your team works, and helps eliminate inefficiencies. Adopting an agile process does not let you magically have a more successful product. What makes agile powerful is also makes it dangerous. Triage and Urgency.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

You might feel weak. Or, you might worry your colleagues see you as weak or incompetent. In addition, the more the people around you can exercise their critical thinking skills. Many of us know what that feels like as a technical team member. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. Teams must carefully consider if product operations solve the core problems and challenges.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

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. The Stage-Gate process came from stories of successful entrepreneurs and teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It’s the end of the Sprint and your team has just finished the Sprint Review. There was not as much to demonstrate to the business as the team had promised and the stakeholders that you invited are underwhelmed with the progress that has been made in the cycle. Picture: A genuine retrospective being held somewhere right now.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

Processes have to serve the development of the product. No separate QA team. In this sort of environment, the processes have to serve the development of the product, rather than the product developing out of predetermined processes. Instead, processes must be agile. No estimations. Initially, I felt overwhelmed.

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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

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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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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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. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. Are we trusting our developers? Escalation of commitments. It is a marathon.

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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. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. Are we trusting our developers? Escalation of commitments. It is a marathon.

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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

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their way to good processes and collaboration, rather than “best practices” folks who believe there’s a fundamentally right way to do things. Is this leading to bad software, or just additional conversation?

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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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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

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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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. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. Are we trusting our developers? Escalation of commitments. It is a marathon.

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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. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. Are we trusting our developers? Escalation of commitments. It is a marathon.

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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. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. Are we trusting our developers? Escalation of commitments. It is a marathon.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. The Development Team, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders need to figure out whether they are still on track delivering value to customers. An alignment?—?did

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

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. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks.

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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. Moreover, they boost employee engagement and nurture strong team collaboration. Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust.

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