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ONE THING on Agile vs. Vision

Product Culture

Agile was developed as a response to lack of consistent direction from business execs. But there is something missing in agile and lean. If anything, agile teams complain they spend so much time focused on the next few weeks that they lose sight of the reasons they are doing all this work. Our Privacy Policy. *.

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ONE THING on Fake Agile

Product Culture

Lots of firms say they are Agile, to sound like Amazon or Google, but don’t have the mindset. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. They don’t brand themselves “Agile” because they view what they’re doing as common sense. I like this article: Understanding Fake Agile.

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What’s the Secret to Maximizing the Value out of Agile PI Planning–Whether You’re In Person or Online

Agile Velocity

Once he got up to the front of the room and started sharing his business vision, people were like, “Wow, is that [leader]? Some companies have a work-from-anywhere policy, but they also have this idea of “Moments that matter.” Then he took his hat and wig off and everyone figured it out.

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A Product Owner’s Role in a Product Organization

ProductPlan

Product owners play a crucial role in “by-the-book” Agile scrum, while product managers are largely absent. The product owner role was born in Agile scrum , a process initially created to deliver software more quickly by giving the product development team more autonomy in exchange for frequent releases that increase customer value.

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Create More Management Transparency

Johanna Rothman

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. When managers start to use the transparency on the right side of the continuum, they not only explain the current organizational state, they create a vision of the future.

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How to Handle Resistance to Change Management

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Transforming your product development process from waterfall to agile. Changing your company’s development approach from waterfall to agile might be a wise strategic decision. In the abstract, saying “We’re an agile shop” will probably sound appealing to your stakeholders. Remain resilient.

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CEO of Bain Public is a Guest Speaker on The Product Manager Podcast

Bain Public

Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems. About the Episode.