Still Questioning the Titles of Product Owner or Product Manager?
The Product Coalition
MARCH 22, 2024
Guidelines to shape your organization’s product agility and career paths. Continue reading on Product Coalition »
Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development
The Product Coalition
APRIL 3, 2023
Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. Increment: A potentially releasable product that the Scrum team creates at the end of each sprint.
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490: Product Process: Fourth of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD
Product Innovation Educators
MAY 20, 2024
How product managers can master product process Watch on YouTube TLDR – The Product Innovation Charter (PIC) is a short document that provides direction and alignment for a product development project. In this article, we will explore the seven knowledge areas for product mastery.
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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products
Product Strategy Agility: How to Use Experiments and Options to Create Products Your Customers Love
How To Manage Multiple Product Teams For Successful Development & Delivery
Don’t Get Left Behind: Leveraging Modern Product Management Across the Organization
10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings
Roman Pichler
APRIL 5, 2022
Additionally, as the person in charge of the product, you typically have to contribute to the meeting, share your expertise, and actively shape product decisions. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. For a more detailed discussion, see my article Use Decision Rules to Make Better Product Decisions.).
Agile Release Train
ProductPlan
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
What is an agile release train? An Agile Release Train (ART) is a feature of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The train is made up of multiple agile teams. They work on a fixed schedule and share the vision, product backlog, and roadmap defined by SAFe. Principles of an agile release train.
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3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Setting Goals for Product Managers
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.
Agile User Stories Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide with Cardboard
CardBoard
AUGUST 7, 2023
Want to get better at writing Agile user stories? Maybe you’re a Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a member of a product team. User stories are more than just a tool for planning and managing work. In this guide, we’ll cover the basics: what are Agile user stories, how do you write them, and how to use them effectively.
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The Story Behind The Lean Product Management Manifesto
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. While these are necessary, I don't see them as the epitome of a "good" Product Manager. Setting the Stage. Excellent question!
Feedback Loops Help When to Centralize or Decentralize Product-Based Decisions
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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Helping Product Managers Triumph in Agile: What to Do When Sales Wants to Change Your Roadmap; Spring 2018 Events
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. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! , tools and technologies for product management). Upcoming Events.
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Helping Product Managers Triumph in Agile: What to Do When Sales Wants to Change Your Roadmap; Spring 2018 Events
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. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! , tools and technologies for product management). Upcoming Events.
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How to Write A Product Manager Cover Letter + Example
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
JULY 12, 2022
After creating your product manager resume , it’s well worth writing your product manager cover letter if your prospective employer wants one. The proper format for a product manager cover letter The last thing you want is your cover letter to look just like any other.
Lean Product Management Manifesto
Melissa Perri
JANUARY 21, 2015
If you want to read the story behind the Lean Product Management Manifesto, you can find it here. 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.
Agile is dead: SCRUM implementation survival guide
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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How To Maximize An Agile Team – Don’t Give Up On Scrum
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. My productivity suffered. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. That’s when it got bad. Learn from Scrum.
11 Books To Read As A Product Manager
Bain Public
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Product managers are forever students; they are constantly seeking to learn and grow their skillset and knowledge. As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.
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What You are Doing Wrong with your Team Working Agreement
The Product Coalition
MARCH 10, 2021
d) Facilitator: The Product and User session of the Teaming Agreement should be facilitated by the Product Manager or Scrum Product Owner. 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.
How to Incorporate Product Analytics into Scrum
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.
Product Roadmap Guide – Definition and Examples
The Basics of Product Management
JUNE 21, 2020
Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. Learn how to become a Product Manager. The ability to prepare a great roadmap is one of the must have skills for any Product Manager. There are some guidelines that need to be kept in mind.
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How to design high impact product experiments?
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment? 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. Running Experiments has become one of the most valuable tools for Product Managers to validate ideas, de-risk releases and measure the impact of their work. And when are experiments invalid?
Plan with Problems. Execute with Solutions.
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.
Establishing a market-led culture with a Product Management framework
BrainMates
MAY 28, 2019
After hearing Rich Mironov talk about the slippery slope of sales-led companies , they decided to learn about Product Management. Immediately after the course, the company invested in six months of organisational product coaching with myself, Brainmates’ New Zealand Product Coach , to help embed the new product mindset.
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Chapter 14/17: How to Prioritize Product Features ?
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Chapter 14/17: How to Prioritize Product Features ? Managing Product Backlog ] [ Next : Chapter 15 -Managing Product Development ] [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Your Product Backlog list seems endless as the contribution comes from so many different sources?—?internal
Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.
UX Planet
DECEMBER 15, 2023
guidelines, following a suit filed by a blind individual ( source ). Not to say that companies require lawsuits to open their eyes to obvious flaws in their product, but it’s always a good idea to avail of a comprehensive UX audit to know where your product stands. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs.
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11 Things Every Product Manager Needs to Know
The Product Coalition
JUNE 8, 2018
Due to their strict control of the review process, being agile on mobile can be a huge challenge. A Solid Understanding of Standard Design Guidelines Image via TheNextWeb The Android Design Guidelines and iOS Human Interface Guidelines are some of the best resources to reference when building or iterating on your app.
8 Keys to Successfully Implementing a Product Management Framework
Product Management 2.0
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Organizations eager to do a better job building and launching products that win in the market are smart to look to product management frameworks. Who wants to waste time reinventing the wheel when market opportunities require speed and stakeholders are obsessed with agility? Key #2: Set clear objectives.
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Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). Instead, can you offer guidelines and constraints so other people can make decisions?
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Presentation on the Agile PM framework
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. The blog post dealt mainly with the creation of the roadmap.
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Plan with Problems. Execute with Solutions.
The Product Coalition
JULY 17, 2018
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.
Plan with Problems. Execute with Solutions.
Ask Benny
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
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.
Plan with Problems. Execute with Solutions.
Ask Benny
JULY 16, 2018
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.
How to write Epics and User stories?—?Best practice.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Basic principles & guidelines with an example for product managers/product owners for writing an epic and user stories. Writing a good epic and user story is the most basic and the most important task at hand when you enter the role of Product Management. How to write Epics and User stories?—?Best
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How we set up our Team for Continuous Product Discovery
Mind the Product
JUNE 20, 2019
While many companies adopt agile and product discovery techniques to better understand their customers faster, it still takes too much time and effort to identify suitable solutions that solve real user problems and also help the business.
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Mind the Product
MARCH 8, 2017
Jesus emphasises the importance of establishing clear brand guidelines, in particular around voice and tone, with colleagues across departments. As product managers, you need to be able to make agile choices about product and be confident you are staying on message.
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What is the Product Operations Career Path?
ProductPlan
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Product operations is an increasingly important part of the product ecosystem. This supporting function enables the success of the product management team. As product operations staffing matures, so has the range of titles, responsibilities, and career pathways in this discipline.
How To Improve Designer-Developer Collaboration as an External UX Team
UX Studio: Product Management
JANUARY 11, 2021
However, these tips may come in handy for developers and product managers as well. . Even if they employ an agile methodology inside the dev team, clients who haven’t hired external design teams before tend to follow a waterfall approach with UX teams. Five challenges and solutions. Figma, Sketch, etc.)
Essential Technical Program Manager Skills
The Product HQ
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Potential technical program managers must keep this unique communication challenge in mind. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors. Strong project management skills enable you to keep track of all the details involved in each project.
Product Tour Examples to Drive Product-led Growth
Userpilot
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
If a user opts for an interactive tour , they essentially have a whole demo environment to play around it (with some key guidelines to follow). How do you create an effective product tour within your own application? Done right, product tours can become a pivotal part of any user onboarding process.
How Google Conducts User Research for Customer Loyalty in 2021
Usersnap
JULY 16, 2021
Usersnap , for instance, is refining collection of in-product on-screen written feedback with annotations. In turn, this better facilitates agile refinement of digital products. While they can add insight, agile development schemas should not exclusively rely on them. User research, however, is necessary for analysis.
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Run Less Software
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. To help us do this well, our engineers spend a LOT of time collaborating in a multidisciplinary product team.
How Google Conducts User Research to Ensure Customer Loyalty
Usersnap
APRIL 12, 2019
Usersnap , for instance, is refining collection of in-product on-screen written feedback with annotations. In turn, this better facilitates agile refinement of digital products. While they can add insight, agile development schemas should not exclusively rely on them. User research, however, is necessary for analysis.
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How to Build a Roadmap for an Ultra Agile Team
The Product Coalition
MAY 9, 2021
When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.
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The Role of Growth in Mobile Product Development
Amplitude
APRIL 4, 2017
A baseline development team usually consists of product management, design, and engineering. The crucial component missing from the product team is growth marketing. During the discovery phase of new product development, all folks on the product team have different roles. Phase 2: Initial Product Development.
Start Doing These 10 Things Today To Be A Better Product Manager
The Secret PM Handbook
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Take Action Today With These Product Management Tips. And I love immediately actionable product management tips that I can start using today to become better at my job. It just so happens that I include tons of immediately actionable guidelines in my articles on this site. There are over 50 at last count.
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