Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

When you have one team learning Agile, another learning Lean, and yet another learning Design Thinking, how are you supposed to get to alignment? Everyone speaks a different language, works at a different pace, aims for different goals, and leadership is in the middle trying to understand how best to help. What is Agile Really About?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. Even though we called ourselves an agile team, we delivered our product using a waterfall method. No one liked the product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? Customer advisory boards arent just for updates – they should be used to test ideas, validate direction, and catch misalignment early.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The ideas of Agile are great. Design Thinking is how we explore and solve problems; Lean is our framework for testing our beliefs and learning our way to the right outcomes; and Agile is how we adapt to changing conditions with software. Agile is related to Lean. Comparing and contrasting Lean and Agile.

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Productside

JUNE 17, 2025

Define: Prototype and test potential solutions before scaling. They needed clear, customizable ways to show WellNest program ROI to their leadership. They tested ideas early (before building) With insight in hand, the team brainstormed widely and used “How might we” questions to frame opportunity areas.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Quote of the Episode.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Check out my product management test that helps you assess your product management knowledge and indicates gaps and weaknesses, so you can make a focused effort to strengthen your expertise. Trust me.”.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Key debate: How do you convince leadership that sustainability isnt just an ethical decision, but a business growth strategy? Building Durable Products: When to Reinvent vs. Retire Some products stand the test of time, while others become bloated or irrelevant. How do you decide whether to refine an existing product or move on?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. After re-prioritizing the backlog, I created a new process where at the end of each sprint, the team would present a demo, and we would test and close the JIRA tickets together.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

What You’ll Learn: Fail Fast, Learn Fast: The value of testing quickly. He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway. If youve ever wondered how to avoid wasted effort, this episode will provide the answers.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Scale through strong, service-based leadership. Motown maintained short iteration cycles, balanced data with instinct, and kept a culture that allowed individuals to challenge leadership. This combination resulted in an agile and adaptive process that persisted for decades. Leadership is Culture. No Room for ego.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

Experimentation is not about testing guesses and hoping a “magic number” will move. Instead, start building educated hypotheses about problems your users have, how you might solve those problems, and create your tests out of those hypotheses. The key to this empowerment is aligning the team around customer-centric product development.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.]. Using feedback effectively.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out.

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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. Agile Isn’t Something you do, it’s Something you are. Rather than a process which you follow, agility is the beliefs, values and principles with which your team or organisation operates.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. Over those 10 years, the technical teams created more robust testing and deployment scripts. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This involves: Screening ideas against predefined criteria Combining multiple ideas to create stronger concepts Selecting the most viable ideas for prototyping and testing By carefully evaluating ideas, you ensure that only the most promising concepts move forward in the product development process.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! Links mentioned in this episode: * The Agile Peer Canvas.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 1, 2018

When we compare today’s agile product management in practice with what we have seen some 10 years ago, not much has changed: Agility is still mainly limited to UX labs and A/B testing, and misses the potential value that could be found between the initial idea and a working product. The post Lost in the Agile Jungle?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. It’s easy to focus on the new skills we need— interviewing , prototyping , testing assumptions , and so forth—but today I want to talk about the mindsets we need to become a successful outcome-driven product team.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

Investors told startups to act like smaller versions of large companies—coming up with a business plan on paper without talking to customers or testing prototypes. Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and the Business Model Canvas became the Lean Startup. Role of Leadership: The VP of Sales most often kills innovation.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Third, they can be tested.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. From that success, I was then officially asked to move into the product role by the product leadership, and I have not looked back since then. Anyone can learn agile product development , basics of software design and development lifecycle, etc.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Working with agility requires a continual cycle of collaboration, delivery, reflection, and improvement. Value Proposition. This was daunting at first. Product Lifecycle.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy. When I see that type of thing happening, I tell the senior leadership team to ask their CEO, “What’s your strategy?” In general, I’m a believer in agile more so than in Agile.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

If you’ve got a background in waterfall processes, it can seem as if agile techniques are just about making it up as you go along. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With our expert guests, Garrett Lang (PlateRate, Founder and President) and Amil Shah (RBC Capital Markets, Senior Product Manager) , we discussed strategies for balancing leadership pressures, navigating feature requests, and crafting a personal brand that opens doors to new opportunities.

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