The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Agile teams need to be able to experiment quickly, finishing stories relatively fast.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2019

Agile is dead: SCRUM implementation survival guide | BraveGeeks by Yuri Mediakov, PM at BraveGeeks Team Photo by Frode Myklebust on Unsplash Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto, has declared Agile as dead, stating that the values of being agile have been totally lost behind the implementation.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. It all seemed so perfect… until I went back to my job. That’s when it got bad.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed. Agile Transformation Requires Management Collaboration.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That's because I have an overarching guideline for partnering with other people: I don't do business with jerks. So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk. Jerks might want to exploit my IP for their purposes, as in this case.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To learn more in-depth about how to adapt Agile values and become more effective at delighting your customers, join our upcoming webinar, How Teams and Leaders Can Unleash the Power of Agile , this Thursday at 10:00AM PT. The evidence is all around us that there’s more lip service given to Agile than action.

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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. It’s so easy to take the innovation and enjoyment of the job away from people by wrapping them up in guidelines about how to deploy the skill they’ve spent their whole lives learning. Her key takeaway?

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

In the meantime, I’ve been busy blogging… Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management. Product roadmaps are still required in agile. But anyone who says #prodmgmt shouldn't have a roadmap when using agile is just plain wrong. Even in agile.).

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

In the meantime, I’ve been busy blogging… Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management. Product roadmaps are still required in agile. But anyone who says #prodmgmt shouldn't have a roadmap when using agile is just plain wrong. Even in agile.).

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. Ground rules are guidelines that foster a collaborative mindset, encourage participation, and help the participants treat each other respectfully. I therefore recommend using a dedicated, skilled facilitator. Introduce ground rules and remind the participants to follow them.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Those are exactly the problems Daniel, Prateek, and I discussed in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video). I have guidelines for me. My Guidelines for the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging. Here are my guidelines: How often do you feel you should review this old data? That time wasn't valuable to me.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The content is based on these books: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Guidelines for interview duration and the interview matrix. We collaborated with LucidMeetings to create this wonderful new class about hiring: How to Discover, Interview, and Hire Amazing Remote People. Hiring Geeks That Fit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

Increase Autonomy and Safety through a Team Norms session When forming a team, a common activity is to have a session to create team guidelines about working together. The guidelines express how the team wants to work together. In short, team norms are guidelines for team member relationships.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Since user preferences are always evolving, you need to be agile and swiftly adapt to new user behavior trends. Such no-code growth leads to more agile teams that can increase company profitability. Comply with accessibility standards such as WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act).

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

In the past few years, I have had a lot of people come up to me and ask about Product Management (lean, agile, waterfall, whatever) and what makes a "good" Product Manager. If you hate the term manifesto, you can call it "Lean Product Management Guidelines" or "Those things that we should probably value but we're not."

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

The high-performance teams developing these products succeed because they’ve developed disciplines that make product analytics part of their agile rituals. This article aims to provide you with some guidelines on how you can incorporate product analytics into your agile rituals through the lens of Scrum.

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

This is probably due to their ability to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market velocity, and increase reliability. Be able to improve your agility, time-to-market, and empower software teams through reliable development practices–it’s all possible with feature toggles. This is a significant time saver and life saver. Even Better!

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2019

I use the guideline: If I can't write large enough on the front of the card to see, my story is too large. Note: In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I recommend any other approach than an agile approach if you don't have enough hours of overlap. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile.

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Usersnap

JUNE 27, 2023

Provide instructions and guidelines Creating clear instructions and guidelines is essential for effective beta testing, as they help testers understand how to evaluate a product accurately. Next, establish a testing environment with clear instructions and guidelines covering all aspects of product usage.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

Certain formatting guidelines and rules are still important to follow, lest you seem unprofessional. Consider the following formatting guidelines that will ensure a level of polish: Use a personal greeting that addresses the hiring manager directly. Soon you’ll be on the fast track to your PM dream job!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement, like agile development, refers to a different change model reinforcing traditional custom software development literature. Agile development boosts incremental change and continuous improvement in the development and deployment processes. What is continuous improvement ?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. By testing variations of a design or user flow you can learn what your user base is most receptive to, regardless of your brand guidelines. Here are 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment?

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For example, they’ll use AI pair programmers like GitHub Copilot , AI-workflow experts like Atlassian Intelligence , and roll out guidelines for using language models. For example, an “agile” methodology that leads to more meetings for developers and reduces the time for deep work won’t be sustainable.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

There are some guidelines that need to be kept in mind. We will cover these guidelines below. Roadmap Guidelines. Have an agile mindset when working on the roadmap. When working on the above guidelines, don’t forget the KISS principle. Creating a roadmap is not a difficult task. Product Roadmap Examples.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2021

We talk a lot about self-organizing teams when we talk about agility. Because especially agile teams might want to experiment with these practices on a regular basis. Establish guidelines and constraints for the work—if necessary. We might see many changes in behavior, such as self-directed or self-organizing teams.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency. There is sprint planning, a daily, a retrospective, and a demo.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

guidelines, following a suit filed by a blind individual ( source ). These can be worked upon in an agile fashion, typically in blocks of 2–6 weeks at a time, saving even more money by reducing urgency over time. The California federal trial court passed an order for Domino’s to bring its website into compliance with the WCAG 2.0

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2020

The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. We do need guidelines and constraints for our work. And, the more business agility we want, the fewer constraints we need. However, too often, policies create rigidity, not resilience.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

‘s intentions were good: he wanted to set the expectations that product managers should be serious about writing great product requirements, but the measurement he set was way off and contradicted any productive form of agile development. While it’s easy to see why L. ’s

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All About Product Management

JULY 1, 2009

I wrote a blog post about an agile product management frame work that I had put together in order to give guidelines to the product team and help improve the quality and accuracy of the information on the product roadmap, backlog and release plans. Framework For Agile Product Management View more documents from morrisond.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. Instead, can you offer guidelines and constraints so other people can make decisions? You make many things difficult: The ability of the people close to the work to learn to make good decisions. The faster people can decide, the more they can experiment.).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This is where your discretion is required, as the method must be used as guidelines, not as a definitive answer. One thing to note about this method is there’s a tendency to prioritize low-cost, low-value items (which have good Value/Cost ratios). This may end up with a product full of easy solutions. Prev : Chapter 13?—?Managing

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2019

This is where taking an agile approach to the projects can really help your project portfolio decisions. I have a guideline for my clients: Not more than 25% in (KTLO) Keep The Lights On. Until they pay off their accumulated decision-debt, they can't move forward with an agile approach. Projects that grow the current business.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

Over the past few months I have been working with people in the Lean and Agile community to figure out how we can communicate the benefits of a Lean approach to Product Management. These are a set of guidelines I have used to improve my Product Management practice and help others do the same.

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Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

Therefore our team needed to be agile enough to iterate quickly and make incremental improvements to the product. . Therefore, the team understood that all UI decisions of the application needed to adhere to the company brand guidelines. In the end, the team succeeded by using the right blend of agile practices and technologies. .

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