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490: Product Process: Fourth of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

– Stage-Gate and Agile Stage-Gate are popular product development processes that manage risk and incorporate Agile elements. Goals and Objectives: Outlines specific and measurable goals related to the project’s contribution to business strategy, operational goals, and project-specific objectives.

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Agile Release Train

ProductPlan

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. Principles of an agile release train. Principles of an agile release train. An Agile Release Train works with the SAFe principles and processes.

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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Strategy Occurs At Several Levels. I see strategy necessary at these management levels: Organizational strategy, to define the value the organization offers to the employees, customers, and other stakeholders.

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How to Build a Roadmap for an Ultra Agile Team

The Product Coalition

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. It is a map.

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Digital transformation is more than AI: you still need a customer-focused strategy

Modus Create

Regardless of the latest technology, business leaders are still asking: How can we execute a successful strategy to engage our customers, improve efficiencies, and future-proof the business? However, that doesn’t mean every executive is jumping into AI without doing a little more strategy work.

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Feedback Loops Help When to Centralize or Decentralize Product-Based Decisions

Johanna Rothman

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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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.