The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Digital transformation fosters agility by enabling businesses to adapt quickly to changing market conditions, customer preferences, and new technologies. Vision & goals Now, chart your course.

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. Product leadership is about more than bossing around your direct reports.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Learn Agile. Servant leadership/Facilitation/Coaching. Manage expectations to leadership.

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms. PRODUCT IMPACT.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. The tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. Ready to dive in?

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the previous articles of this series, I covered the first and second antidotes to Zombie Agility, the regular and generous application of compelling Business Outcomes and ensuring your change agents aren’t already infected. Antidote #3: Build healthy teams with strong capabilities to easily repel future Zombie Agility attacks.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Agile, discovery, experimentation have all become embedded in what we do. Agile is not a strategy. Your Product Vision.

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ProductPlan

MAY 31, 2023

Product centricity introduces agility into how businesses plan, staff, budget, prioritize, and execute. These firms have an unflagging belief that they’re building something important for an addressable market without compromising on their vision or principles. They are by definition time-bound and have a limited scope.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

The real test is how much they’re willing to pay for it, which truly shows how much they value the solution. Aside from generating revenue, it’s also important to check if the solution aligns with the business’s direction, vision, and values. You should be able to articulate how your solution aligns with the vision and mission.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 30, 2023

” Why don’t more companies encourage positive leadership character? Through positive leadership character you help to encourage your employees to continue “subscribing” Remember, it's less costly and more effective to retain existing employees than it is to attract and train new ones. ” ( article ).

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 29, 2018

Webinar: Scaling Agility: 5 Practices to Get Your Organization Started from Agile Velocity. In this webinar, Mike and Bryan discussed different tactics and practices that organizations can take as they begin to scale agility across the organization. 5 Practices to Start Scaling Agile. 5 Practices to Start Scaling Agile.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Alignment with product/business goals Using a feature prioritization matrix helps the team stay true to the product vision and strategy. Product vision. Not involving stakeholders in the process When prioritizing features, you should involve all the key stakeholders, like the senior leadership or the development team.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. In an Agile, fast-moving and competitive environment, what you are frequently not able to achieve with output-focused product planning, however, are desired user and business results.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Brainstorming product vision with your engineers and design team? The Waterfall methodology was king; agile development wouldn’t be a gleam in the eye for another decade. Finally, product development has changed: we’re Agile now. At last count, seven out of ten companies have adopted some form of agile development.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They already own a vision, a revenue number, a team to inspire and coach, day-to-day execution, and every last individual customer. These other teams sometimes have the skills to be true thought partners and business consultants, taking that pressure off of CS leadership. CS leadership time spent on reporting. Your VP of CS?

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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. Vision and mission presentation at XING’s yearly kick-off event. Let’s start with the business.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Their key focus is defining the product vision , developing strategy, and building the product roadmap to align with the business strategy and user needs. To do that, they’re involved in processes like product discovery , idea validation and prioritization , and prototype testing. Pros and cons of the structure: Self-sufficiency.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Come up with ideas like you’re right but test them like you’re wrong! Building short-term gains, like revenue, stability, etc are often necessary steps to take before being able to tackle that long-term vision. 10) Protect the team vs Challenging the team Whether you like it or not as a Product Manager you are in a leadership position.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

They must rally a team around a product’s vision and make sure the solution is viable from a business perspective. Product leadership style. At the heart of it, a product manager is responsible for defining a product’s vision and the strategy for achieving that vision. Communicate product strategy and product vision.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Be aware that collaboration requires leadership. Hold the team accountable and expect that people do a good job–that commitments are kept and agreements respected, that sprint goals are delivered, that the team adheres to the definition of done and creates software that works, is documented, and tested. Learn More.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. The inimitable Nate Walkingshaw argues that despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together. Dual-Track Agile: Why Messy Leads to Innovation.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product. QA team capacity to test the features being built. There is no point having a huge list of developed features that are in the testing queue. The product team needs to keep the development backlog in sync with the testing backlog.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Using more feedback to guide feature development and test demand for features could be another product manager goal. Product managers are responsible for the overall product vision and its alignment with the business objectives. It tests the overall satisfaction and includes a follow-up question to collect more detailed feedback.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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BrainStation Product Management

MAY 7, 2019

Chances are you’ve heard of Agile Development , a process for software development that is based on an iterative approach. Many organizations, particularly those involved in technology, use Agile Methodologies in their digital product development. If you’re doing Agile correctly,” Belmont added. The Product Management Process.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2018

They all have their own agenda’s and pet peeves e.g. engineers want to build things the right way without tech debt even if that takes longer, some designers are hesitant to put a stake in the ground without a bunch of research and testing, data scientists don’t like agile etc etc. but you get the point).

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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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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

When a clear path and vision is necessary for success, it makes sense that taking the proactive approach would yield the best chances. User-testing. Even products with strong internal support can get to the user-testing stage and fail miserably. As they are more prepared for the future, their vision becomes clearer and stronger.

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Revulytics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In his webinar, experienced B2C and B2B product leader Tim Herbig , author of Lateral Leadership: A Practical Guide for Agile Product Management , shows how to be a data-informed product manager. Don’t let today’s metrics hold back your vision. Fourth, don’t confuse today’s behavior with tomorrow’s potential product.

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UX Studio: Product Management

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We offer a wide range of user research services : UX audit , Expert review , Usability tests and User interviews, Persona and User Journey creation , Value Proposition Validation, and. The company always observes how real users interact with the platforms they’re testing. Conversion Strategy & Testing. Competitor Analysis.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Scaled Agile POPM If you’re familiar with Lean and/or Agile frameworks, you’re probably familiar with Scaled Agile. Curriculum Includes: A solid foundation in Lean/Agile principles including forecasting work, program increment planning, and execution strategies. Exam fee is $50 and Renewal fee is $100. Online Available?:

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Product Bookshelf

MARCH 17, 2017

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf. Lean UX is the way you do design in an Agile process. Lean UX focuses on shared understanding that is embodied in working software which can be tested with users rather than detailed design documentation. Prioritizing and testing assumptions .

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. It depends.

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