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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Let’s go Agile! So where is the problem?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Strategies for Maintaining Product Vision Without Losing Adaptability Use a structured prioritization framework (e.g., Volunteer for early-stage startups or open-source projects to work on real product initiatives. Use decision-making frameworks (e.g., Detailed communication framework included in the Patreon recap!

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. It tied together many of my experiences and I helped me put them into a framework. Consequently, I think of Eric Ries as the create of Lean Startup and Steve Blank as its father. It’s a book that spoke to me.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

We use UXDAs Digital Experience Branding Framework to help ambitious financial institutions build strong, future-ready digitalbrands. Without a strong and consistent digital brand, financial institutions risk being overshadowed by nimble Fintech startups or tech giants like Apple and Google that excel in user experience.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. I find that the framework is best suited for products that are affected by a significant amount of uncertainty and change.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). As any startup will tell you, managing an idea from concept to launch is a lot easier said than done. In the startup context.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 26, 2020

Matt has worked in product for Bit.ly, various music startups, and now runs his own agency Sudden Compass. He is also the author of Product Management in Practice and Agile for Everybody. [.]. The post Mindset – Blaming the framework, core team communication, and remote working with Matt LeMay appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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 Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. Here’s how it works: Image Credits Scrum.org The Basics of Scrum Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. The framework consists of Scrum teams, roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Crown Business.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 8, 2019

Many of the companies I have worked with this year want to make their product development and management capability more agile. Most often they are using something that is of a stage-gate nature, but being more agile doesn’t mean throwing away a stage-gate framework. 14:53] What must change to adopt agile?

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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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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2021

We talked with agile consultant Liz Keogh about how to get this right, who estimates are for, her invaluable scale for estimating complexity, and how to pronounce the word Cynefin. The Cynefin Framework. MindTools article on The Cynefin Framework. * ’ piece at Agile Alliance. Get in Touch, Rate Us, and More!

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Keep learning and adapting their approach as contexts change While books and frameworks provide valuable guidance, success comes from understanding your specific context and adapting best practices accordingly. Focus on facilitating good decisions rather than making all decisions 3. Build collaborative relationships across the organization 4.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

Trying to build the right thing without a solid discovery framework is like setting off on a road trip without a map or destination. Whether you’re in product, UX, or strategy, this is your blueprint for a discovery framework that actually moves the needle by connecting user insight to the metrics that drive revenue.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

It goes well beyond analytics, frameworks, and agile. Different product frameworks. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude , listen to learn about: * How to manage a team well.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. That was until I had my first experience teaching Product Management at a company using the SAFe framework. I liked this name.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2023

They also need their portfolio management or governance processes to align well with core agile practices; otherwise, there will be a fundamental disconnect with the agile approach being used at the individual product level. I write about product management, healthcare, decision-making, investing, and startups.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 18, 2022

Integrating the advantages of large organizations and startups – for product managers. He is also the founder of GrowthX, a corporate startup accelerator. We came across startup accelerators that help startups by providing business coaching, lean startup methodologies, and mentors.

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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? Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. 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.

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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. In this case, it is possible to collaborate with another company, possibly a startup, to derisk the investment. There are no prizes for being first to the race’s starting line!

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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Any agile practitioner may recognize these as poor practices and it is surprising how easily a team can succumb when operating in a high pressure, reactive environment.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The framework and systems needed are a topic of a new book written by our guest, Katherine Radeka, and titled High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster. ” That’s a good endorsement, and in our discussion, Katherine shares her innovation framework to make that happen.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 13, 2018

Agile, Kanban & Scrum for product management in different contexts. This article describes a few differences and provides a brief introduction to agile-oriented product development… [link]. Established organizations and startups have a growing number of options to incorporate innovation into their work. 6) Be Flexible. (7)

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. The Auftragsklärung framework. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

You can find numerous articles out there that will rattle off a list of “essential e-commerce metrics” however the problem with these are… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. Who the product is for (the market). What the product is (the category).

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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

JULY 16, 2022

Can The ‘Jobs-to-be-Done’ (JTBD) Framework Help With User Onboarding? If You Know The JTBD Framework, You Know Onboarding Let’s combine the two, and see the magic happening! Now, the JTBD is an extremely famous framework that can be used a lot. When you onboard a user, there are two things you should answer: Who is signing up?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

A lean startup coach and founder of innovation consultancy Kromatic – Tristan also currently serves on the ice cream innovation board at Unilever! 32:20 | Are there any frameworks/tools to help me manage multiple products? Watch on YouTube | Listen on Soundcloud | View other Mindset episodes. Question 1 .

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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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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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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

In this thought-provoking episode, youll gain: A framework for refining product-market fit without unnecessary pivots. Rachel explains how to evaluate when AI is truly adding value versus when its just a distraction. Why Listen to This Episode? Strategies to align product, sales, and marketing for real go-to-market success.

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