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? There are so many frameworks and tools to choose from, so how do you make them work in the real world? What is Agile Really About? These can then flow into Agile. What is Lean?

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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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. Software outsourcing services company states that there are two major development methodologies regarding waterfall and agile. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? A company achieves the product-market fit when the product satisfies the needs of enough customers who are willing to pay for it, and it is easy to scale. What is product-market fit (PMF)? Let’s jump in!

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market. And then we take the solutions to market. Breakthrough!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What is iterative testing? Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities. Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 21, 2023

Agile is about flexibility, collaboration, and customer satisfaction. Agile helps you keep up. We’re going to dig into Agile. We’ll also look at how Agile has evolved over time and why it’s more relevant today than ever before. The Origins of Agile Agile didn’t just emerge out of nowhere.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market. And then we take the solutions to market. Breakthrough!

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market. And then we take the solutions to market. Breakthrough!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon London, Jonny Schneider, Product Strategy and Design Principal at ThoughtWorks, discusses how using all of design thinking, agile, and lean means we can build better products. Key points: You should try to use design thinking, agile and lean when building your products. Do you want to test a solution?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end. This is not agile.

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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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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Every product and company is one and only you shouldn’t go with the Agile because of its popularity.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Have a hard time choosing between product prioritization frameworks? Luckily, product prioritization frameworks exist for just that. Why use a product prioritization framework? Before diving into the frameworks, let’s explain why many of these frameworks exist in the first place. The MoSCow method.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. Market research focuses on understanding consumer behavior and preferences in order to inform marketing strategies and business decisions.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Digital transformation helps businesses automate processes, improve efficiency, and innovate faster, allowing them to outmaneuver competitors and capture market share. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Implementation plan Define how you’ll get there.

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Agile is just a means to an end.

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Amir Rozenberg

APRIL 12, 2018

.” Just like Rihanna, you might think there are too many frameworks to learn in the testing arena! Now there is a new cross-browser test framework gaining adoption in the community: Gauge , a framework sponsored by ThoughtWorks. So why is a market for another framework? How does it work?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. And I haven’t done any formal development or testing in a very long time.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

While internal stakeholders such as marketing, sales, and support play an important role in successfully offering a product, it would be wrong to try to please them and to say yes to all their ideas and requests. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The agile release train (ART) is a long-lived team of agile teams that, along with other stakeholders, incrementally develops and delivers value. This agile release train cheat sheet breaks down the purpose, principles, events, and members of the ART.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

Are you wondering about the difference between the Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product? MVP reduces the time to market and allows a quicker release of the product. A Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is a more developed version of the MVP and it is ready to be sold to customers. If so, you are in the right place!

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Modus Create

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s been 30 years since the creation of the agile manifesto. And yet, agile remains misunderstood by the vast majority. . That’s what happened with lean and what’s happening with agile. . Agile Has Gone Mainstream. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here’s how to use the JTBD framework in product design: [link] 1. Segment by job, not demographics : Instead of traditional demographic segments like age or location, segment your market based on the jobs customers are trying to accomplish. This can reveal gaps in the market and opportunities for differentiation.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end. This is not agile.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification On the flip side, many development teams are now fully immersed in “Agile world” that is all about delivering small increments of working code according to strict rituals. Specification

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 4, 2020

Top 5 must know Agile vs Waterfall major differences. Agile vs Waterfall is not as common a debate as Scrum vs Kanban. Thus, this article is more for people who have recently entered the job market and have never been exposed to the Waterfall model. Agile vs Waterfall. Agile vs Waterfall.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. With Dual-Track Agile, the development team participates in the discovery track – often led by the lead engineer, the UX designer, and the product manager. We faked it.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Managing culture can quickly become one of the most complex challenges for companies that seek to scale agile practices. Scaling agile practices [1] in a company requires strong cultural foundations, as you build understanding and trust, between – and within – teams. How do you plan to test said hypotheses?

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