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.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Experience to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required How did Marty Cagan get started in product management? Who is Marty Cagan?

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Bad turnover.

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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. The Agile Manifesto.

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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. The Agile Manifesto. This is not agile.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. .” Seeing things in practice.

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

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. The Agile Manifesto.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. This is how we did it. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

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.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Every other day I seem to come across several new articles describing how to pass the infamous product manager interview. You don’t like talking with your customer service/sales teams I spoiled this a bit above, but some of your best resources are your sales and CS teams. You don’t like talking with your users Another biggie.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Before automating your next test case, step back and estimate how often you will run this test. Another thing that is very important in Agile development practices is exploratory testing. You should run automated tests all the time or as many times the team deems necessary. When Do I Need to Run My Automated Tests?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. He teaches teams how to set up a winning product strategy, run customer and product development processes, as well as robust their lean, agile, and design thinking skills.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. He was curious to understand how I could manage to succeed as a Scrum Master without strong domain knowledge. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. What Does the Scrum Master Do All Day?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Plot summary.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Once you start developing a feature, you should also test it regularly. Next, use the right tool to collect the right information and use the data to inform new developments. Finally, test again to check how effective the new feature is. Running frequent tests from the get-go allows you to identify and fix weaknesses early.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

By the time you’ve done enough to be certain, you might as well have spent your time building the software. Agile vs Waterfall. Long-term planning in an agile environment can seem like a paradox but what if there was a way to do long-term planning while still retaining agility? How to do it.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” Adopting Agile methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , eXtreme Programming , or some combination of the above has been a trend, or some might say a craze, affecting digital product management for many years. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. And no matter how many walls we build or how hard we try to curb immigration, we are forever bound to work with people who are nothing like us culturally.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. This is how we did it. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We explain what and how to check before releasing different language versions of your product. Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider.

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Izenda

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For many product managers and their teams, technical debt can be a black hole. Throughout product development, it may feel like you take two steps forward and three steps back. Technical debt is a common problem among product teams with no clear-cut solution. How agile teams accumulate technical debt.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn why poor prioritization happens.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. Then throw it out into the market and see how the market reacts, and finally, iterate. This is natural. It’s my idea so I have to stand by it.”

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I Wonder The Value

OCTOBER 9, 2017

So I will introduce PDCA and the simple trick to install true KAIZEN culture through PDCA in your product team. So that it can be easily applied to any situation, from micro tasks to team project. Check how good and how bad the result is, compared to “Plan”. What is PDCA? Let's see the detail from 2 examples.

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