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Product Roles, Part 6: Shorten Feedback Loops

Johanna Rothman

I started this series discussing the issue of the various product-based roles in an agile organization. I suggested a product value team because one person becomes a bottleneck. One person is unlikely to shepherd the strategy and the tactics for a product. Can Your Customer Be Your Product Owner?

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Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • BuildBetter —AI for product teams • Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Shaun Clowes is the chief product officer at Confluent and former CPO at Salesforce’s MuleSoft and at Metromile.

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Product Roles, Part 7: Collaboration Can Shorten Feedback Loops

Johanna Rothman

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? Could a team reduce the feedback loop durations? the PRD (Product Requirements Document) to the team.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. A lot of digital transformation companies usually need to start with Product Organizational design, getting alignment on the role of a Product Manager and what that means before they can look at Product Strategy and Product Operations.

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Use Deliveries to Offer New Decision Points for Tactics and Strategy

Johanna Rothman

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. Finishing a story creates a new decision point, for both the product and the corporate strategy. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. Here's an example.

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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. I see strategy necessary at these management levels: Organizational strategy, to define the value the organization offers to the employees, customers, and other stakeholders. I'm going to call them all products.

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Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Part 2: Moderate Innovation Products

Johanna Rothman

Then, the people who manage the product strategy, the product manager/product value team change what the team does next. For seeing feature progress, I recommend the product backlog burnup chart and feature charts. See Velocity is Not Acceleration or Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.