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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

It’s in our name, right?) Agile development methodologies. ” video , from my (still in production) Secret Product Manager Handbook series. Let me know in the comments what you think about the Secret Product Manager Handbook. I’ve found the model to be very powerful in my career, and I hope it’s helpful to you.

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Mental Models Applied: Using A 2×2 Chart For Handling Competitive Objections

The Secret PM Handbook

Come up with spiffy names for the axes, and for the quadrants. I used “Right projects, right people” for the name of the magic quadrant. And then the obvious flipped names for the other quadrants. Clever names. ” (That’s what we call “agile portfolio management.”).

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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

It’s in our name, right?) Agile development methodologies. ” video , from my (still in production) Secret Product Manager Handbook series. Let me know in the comments what you think about the Secret Product Manager Handbook. I’ve found the model to be very powerful in my career, and I hope it’s helpful to you.

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3 Simple Steps To Make Your Customer Stories 10x Better

The Secret PM Handbook

They asked me to help them with their agile demo because I am an agile expert. As I worked with them, I realized the problem wasn’t their agile demo, it was how they were demoing. Instead of giving them a new agile demo, I trained them on how to give a solution-oriented demo. You can abbreviate it PSR.

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3 Simple Steps To Make Your Customer Stories 10x Better

The Secret PM Handbook

They asked me to help them with their agile demo because I am an agile expert. As I worked with them, I realized the problem wasn’t their agile demo, it was how they were demoing. Instead of giving them a new agile demo, I trained them on how to give a solution-oriented demo. You can abbreviate it PSR.

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. ” The team got into iterative development or Agile Stage Gate, and it worked very well. [17:46]

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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Evidence based coaching handbook: Putting best practices to work for your clients. A few of the most common that I’ve heard over the last few weeks, include: mastering a new method or skill (design sprints are popular again this year). writing a book.