The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

publication Shape Up – Stop Running In Circles and Ship Work That Matters , Head of Strategy Ryan Singer shares an approach that challenges most of the orthodoxy around Agile (as a framework) but retains all of the spirit of agile (as a philosophy). The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Building products for big corporates, small startups and scale-ups. What I have seen, is that both startups and big corporates have issues in understanding how to be more product-led without the right mindset and framework. Design, UX, Agile Have Already Done the Hard Work. My Coaching Framework. – Empathy.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. What Is Product Management Consulting?

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. Overview of Eureka framework for user onboarding. Key learnings.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy. Agile product management is proven to improve a product’s development, delivering value sooner than waterfall projects. Drives product success.

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. OpenView Venture Partners’ blog offers insights into the financial side of running a startup.

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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 Participation is free.)

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Here is what you should do: Set up time with your leadership teams to prioritise the goals for the next few months Share the goals and initiatives that are required to be prioritised before the meeting. This depends on what delivery framework you use, Agile or Waterfall or Mixed.) I’ll link to it once its written it up.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms. Today, product might seem like a new field because of the growth of technology startups and the prevalence of lean and agile frameworks, but product roles have been around for a few decades.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems. About the Episode.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. What is your role? Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy.

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The Basics of Product Management

APRIL 27, 2020

This may be a common practice in startups, but it is practically unheard of in large, traditional corporates. This is also a good time to get familiar with the OKR Framework. However, now more than ever, it is necessary to fully understand Agile Methodology. How do you continue to be an effective Product Manager?

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. Navigating the corporate landscape to secure the leadership’s buy-in and resources is a big part of their job.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

When I go to leadership meetings to talk about the product, I’m occasionally asked how long things are taking, or what is stopping us shipping X by Y date, or what is preventing us from reaching a key OKR by the end of the year? Agile, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, Lean, ShapeUp, Doing just…whatever. the real world.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 19, 2021

There was not a particular framework that made the difference; it was their willingness to find the best approach for their organisation and workers. In your current company’s framework, do you have enough ways to reward your people and recognise their work? Reward, Recognition and… Firing I’ve always felt that hiring is easy.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I decided to join a smaller startup, which was a company called XING. It was an 80-person startup back then. And since it was such a small company, we were quick to experiment and I could try a lot of frameworks and methodologies and tools. I definitely heard in your story the why behind going from SAP to the startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups. Young startups go out of business regularly and their security and reliability is often worse than more mature companies.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Its host, Michael Luchen, explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A recent survey conducted by Product Management Festival found that the number one reason why PMs leave their roles is because of a lack… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

The adoption of Agile has helped us deliver iterative chunks of code rather than waiting for the big reveal at the end of a long project. Agile rituals like daily stand-ups help us remove obstacles in the development path, increasing our velocity, and reducing our time to ship. Obviously, both are required to ship a product.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The authors identify the forces that cause managers to make bad decisions as they package and shape new ideas—and offer new frameworks to help create the right conditions, at the right time, for a disruption to succeed. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

" and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership." What is your ideal manager like?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Topics: Product development lifecycle & success stories, Agile Management & Rapid Prototyping, New product management software & technologies, Usability & interface design, Product manager career: How to rise up in our organization, Hiring the best product managers for the job. Product Con. Source: Productschool.com.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. Earlier startups or teams launching new features may want more experience in user research and product design. Are they engineers? MBA consultant-types?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. Earlier startups or teams launching new features may want more experience in user research and product design. Are they engineers? MBA consultant-types?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

UX studio is a young European product design company with an established thought leadership in the design communities. With expertise in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation, we strive to be more than a design agency. Based in Ottawa, the company works with startups and enterprises from all over the world.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Unsure of what tech career path she wanted to tread, Oluwatobi’s career began at a startup. “At startups, you get to be hands-on in almost everything that’s needed for the company to succeed,” she says, “and so I started software development, learnt animation, offered IT support, and customer service.”

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 27 How to adapt UX research for an Agile environment.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a genuinely worthy lesson about willingness to learn, the ability to adapt successfully, the power of motivating team leadership, the benefits of making data-driven decisions from product usage insights, and the results produced from commitment. “I had to think about leadership differently,” Amy stated.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 21, 2021

Too many frameworks, too little direction. But while there are many frameworks for prioritizing requirements ( here are 37 of them ), there’s a little less direction when it comes to the rest of our professional lives. Do I try to move into a leadership role at a stealth-mode startup? That’s where IMPACT comes in.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large See you in part II where I will cover the next steps the connection between OKRs, roadmap and agile process. What are OKRs?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. Working in Big Tech vs. at a Startup | Day in the Life Trying to decide if you want to work at a big tech company like Google or Amazon, or if you’d be happier at a startup?

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