Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Ever since the shift towards agile practices, product teams have hung on to a set of core attributes, ranging from cross-functional, to customer-centric all the way up to iterative. A shift in technology and a change of mindset amongst employees has laid the groundwork for a remote-first approach to setting up and operating product teams.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Discuss development progress and user feedback on the latest product increments.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2021

TL;DR: App Prototyping with Absolute Beginners Yes, even absolute beginners can prototype an app. And learn a lot about agile product management, Scrum, empiricism, product design, and user experience along the way. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Are you searching for the tech and design partner you can trust while building your mobile app together? As a consequence of this, the mobile app development industry is on the rise now. Probably, you look for a research-based recommendation of a reliable app development service provider too. It’s likely your mobile device.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Collaborative Product Backlog Workshop.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

The collaboration between AMS and MIT researchers has yielded impressive results, with AI tools not only matching human analysts in identifying customer needs but often exceeding themespecially for emotional needs that humans might overlook. But it is changing, with AI tools that are transforming how we uncover and analyze customer needs.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

To achieve this, perform a stakeholder analysis using a tool like the Power-Interest Grid shown in Figure 1. [2] A great way to co-develop the product strategy and roadmap—as well as to review and update the plans—is to bring people together through collaborative workshops. You can download the framework by clicking on the image.)

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

This need is what led me to think about and design the opportunity solution tree. When I finally wrote about the opportunity solution tree (back in 2016), I knew that it was a big enough idea that I would need to write a book about it. This gave me a great feedback loop to measure the efficacy of my content.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . I learned about STATIK from a colleague several years ago and began applying it as a model for my Team Chartering workshops. How does work flow through the team/system?

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

OpenAI: B2B Growth, Lifecycle As part of the Growth team, you’ll be at the forefront of bringing OpenAI’s technology to the world. We aim to make our innovative tools universally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers. Who would be a bad fit for this job? How can Som benefit your company?

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Modus Create

AUGUST 31, 2021

Project management software includes a broad spectrum of tools. Although all of them are designed to simplify collaboration, not every tool targets the same piece of the puzzle. To know which project management tool your team should consider, you need to understand what collaboration challenges you are experiencing.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” To thrive as a technical PM, you need to have essential skill such as knowledge of Agile methodologies, familiarity with software engineering principles, leadership and communication. Network strategically with peers and industry experts.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

13:57 | Do have any tips or advice for gaining feedback from our customers? 32:20 | Are there any frameworks/tools to help me manage multiple products? 40:42 | What are good examples of teams who have effectively scaled their product organisations with multiple levels of product managers and multiple agile teams? Show Notes.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 26, 2022

Digital transformations aim to leverage technology and improve time to market, responsiveness to customer feedback and make business processes more efficient. But the problem is not the old platform. When we start with the problem and think of potential solutions we can better map a way to get there.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

To help you build smarter (not just faster), we sat down with Matt LeMay – author of Agile for Everybody product discovery evangelist, and creator of the One Page / One Hour method – to learn how to keep discovery grounded in real business impact. Its about identifying and testing promising solutions that actually matter fast.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2024

Experience strategists can utilize a range of tools to enhance their work. Userpilot assists in user onboarding, while Monday and Jira Software streamline project and product management, etc. Looking into tools for experience strategists? Book a demo to see it in action! What skills should an experience strategist have?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. That’s the job of the development team.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. Taking into account the questions and feedback of the attendees allowed me to refine the book’s value proposition—and improve the workshop. The feedback I received was mixed.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap. This helps you come up with more creative solutions compared to talking to individual stakeholders. First, you can either have one-on-one conversations with your stakeholders.

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UX Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Until this time, I had been working as a software developer by profession and as a UX Designer on my own, on personal projects. It made me understand why finding out the root cause of a problem is more important than thinking about a solution right away. How did I bring UX into my Agile product team?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. But recognise that software development can be challenging and that human beings make mistakes. Assume that the team members want to do their best. Be honest and open.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2015

As more organizations adopt and look to optimize agile development approaches, one of the questions that is most pressing relates to roles and responsibilities — specifically, about how the role of product owner compares to the role of product manager. Product Manager and Product Owner: One Person or Two? Upcoming SiriusDecisions Webcasts.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 25, 2018

Legacy Products are Like Elephants – They’re not Very Agile. There are lots of opportunities to have an impact when working with tools that have come from a different time, but you need to consider how best to handle right at the start. This is especially true if they need to integrated with more agile ways of working or systems.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification However this part of agile development is not practiced as religiously.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem Today we welcome Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. What brought you to ‘agile?’ “ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. He sold solutions, I developed them.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

It starts with workshops, and they bring in people from all kinds of industries—energy, economy, etc.—who Marketing and technical people sit in on those workshops, which happen every two years or so. Another example is Novazymes, a biotech company, which created their own crowdsourcing platform for their employees.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That was the key question I posed in my Agile Cincinnati keynote recently. It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Many organizations erroneously define their products by taking a technology perspective. What Is Your Product? “So, So, what is your product?” This has serious consequences.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

One of the questions a Designer invariably hears during an interview process, particularly when showcasing a case study, pertains to the duration of the solutioning endeavor they have just showcased. The first substantial software project I was involved in, was a multi-year endeavor that was already in motion when I joined the team.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. I addressed short feedback loops in Part 2. What Tools Does Your Team Need in its Workspace? Mark and I listed these tools for the team's workspace in the book: The code repository.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2015

As more organizations adopt and look to optimize agile development approaches, one of the questions that is most pressing relates to roles and responsibilities — specifically, about how the role of product owner compares to the role of product manager. Product Manager and Product Owner: One Person or Two? Upcoming SiriusDecisions Webcasts.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Brant Cooper, #mtpcon speaker and Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, shared his insights into what behaviours and mindsets large, established companies can use to drive their internal innovation activities, as well as enable and empower their teams to develop new solutions that create value for customers. Managing Agile Teams Remotely.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

an agile and/or digital transformation). user interviews Interviews or workshops are often the first step in speaking with users before user personas are put together based on the information obtained during those sessions. It all depends on the desired outcome of the workshop. Absolutely not! Think about it.

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