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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Can Lean Product Management Help Startups Build Strong Products?

The Product Coalition

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). As any startup will tell you, managing an idea from concept to launch is a lot easier said than done. Why does Lean matter?

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData.

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner — You Asked, We Answered

280 Group

Are Product Managers both Traditional and Agile? Secondly, is an Agile Product Manager a Product Owner? Let’s start by remembering that Agile and Waterfall/Traditional are development methodologies – ways to build a product. There are a couple of ways to address this question.

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Importance of A Holistic Product Function in A Startup

The Product Coalition

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Upsell Strategy (upgrade, expand, replace) b. To do so, the activities of the PM include: a.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. What is Product Management? 2019: "I'm going to get my MBA so I can be a product manager." What are you even doing there?