The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Strategies for Maintaining Product Vision Without Losing Adaptability Use a structured prioritization framework (e.g., Strategies for Maintaining Product Vision Without Losing Adaptability Use a structured prioritization framework (e.g.,

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? Want the Frameworks to Apply These Lessons? We developed a series of exclusive frameworks and step-by-step strategies to help you turn these insights into action.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

While the role still requires strong leadership skills, the most successful product managers approach their work differently than what the “CEO of the product” phrase might suggest. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Break down standardised processes for all and everything Well, there’s nothing wrong about a framework, if you know how to handle and adapt it. Break down standardised processes for all and everything Well, there’s nothing wrong about a framework, if you know how to handle and adapt it. So agile and lean are two major keys.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 22, 2021

I had joined the Infrastructure and Operations ‘tribe’ as an Agile Coach and some of my fondest memories (both personally and professionally) were from working in my Agile Coach ‘chapter’. Read more » The post The PM Competency Framework: Making Product Management growth a team effort appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

When you have one team learning Agile, another learning Lean, and yet another learning Design Thinking, how are you supposed to get to alignment? Everyone speaks a different language, works at a different pace, aims for different goals, and leadership is in the middle trying to understand how best to help. What is Agile Really About?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. That’s the job of the development team.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Key debate: How do you convince leadership that sustainability isnt just an ethical decision, but a business growth strategy? Practical frameworks for balancing durability with innovation Discover strategies for extending product lifespan, improving customer retention, and making smarter iteration vs. retirement decisions.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 21, 2018

Lateral leadership describes the art of efficiently influencing others around you without formal authority. It is essential for succeeding in the implicit leadership position that product managers find themselves in. They also didn’t appreciate the importance that lateral leadership already had in their daily business life.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context. Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The ideas of Agile are great. Design Thinking is how we explore and solve problems; Lean is our framework for testing our beliefs and learning our way to the right outcomes; and Agile is how we adapt to changing conditions with software. Agile is related to Lean. Comparing and contrasting Lean and Agile.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch. The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. No one liked the product.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley Today’s guest is Ryan Ripley. He hosts the Agile for Humans podcast and most recently co-wrote Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions for Common Scrum Problems with Todd Miller for PragProg. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Different product frameworks.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Its a stark reminder that without the right frameworks and support, even experienced PMs can struggle to navigate the complexities of customer-centric innovation. Whether its customer feedback, analytics dashboards, or training in decision frameworks, make sure they have what they need to succeed.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider. The First Agile transformation OKR – “Leader Engagement”.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

We heard many speakers focus on empathy with our users and our colleagues, to help them solve real problems in simple ways, leadership that comes not from authority, but by enabling others to be their best, and diversity that brings multiple viewpoints to the table, removing barriers to collaboration in our teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What product managers need to know about the Targeted Innovation Process Watch on YouTube TLDR The Targeted Innovation Process is a practical framework that helps product managers drive innovation in their organizations. This framework has five key steps: Step Description 1.

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

According to the 2020 State of Agile Report , 95% of organizations say they’ve adopted Agile development methodologies within their team. It’s one of the most widely used and trusted frameworks for the modern technology company. So why do 84% of those respondents feel like they’re not doing Agile the right way?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. We don't think we need to be “religious” about our agile approach as long as we get the benefit. Then, they Built their agile approach based on their needs.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. The middle managers actively acted against the framework. I thought this framework would work for us. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. Ron Adner is second to none regarding ecosystems and thought leadership! The worst product is the best innovation that your customer doesn’t comprehend or cannot access.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! The Auftragsklärung framework. The Auftragsklärung framework.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 8, 2017

At ProductTank London, Lean & Agile Enterprise Coach Debbie Wren shares insights into successfully scaling autonomous teams. Agile Isn’t Something you do, it’s Something you are. Rather than a process which you follow, agility is the beliefs, values and principles with which your team or organisation operates.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. Commodity businesses don't need agility for product development.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. Framework Fanatics. Agile is not a Strategy. The most common product mistakes fall into two camps: 1.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

It tied together many of my experiences and I helped me put them into a framework. My student Eric Ries became the first adopter of Customer Development and recognized that in the 21st century, people were starting to adopt Agile Engineering, where you build products incrementally and iteratively. It’s a book that spoke to me.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. As an example, when managers don't bother to learn agile measures and what they mean and instead want a Gantt chart, “because how long could it take?” ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach. Probably nothing.).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And nothing feels more satisfying than feeling like you’ve finally found the perfect framework or methodology that’ll help you do that. And you might even have heard of their innovative framework for organising teams and scaling products in agile. Unfortunately there are so many to choose from ! What Is the Spotify Model?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

A great way to do this is to use the feedback framework shown in Figure 4. You can download the framework by clicking on the image.) Figure 4: A Framework to Offer Constructive Feedback The framework encourages you to take six steps to address and correct an issue.

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