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 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps  Are fellow employees offended when I decline meeting requests?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. It entirely depends on the number and size of features and development deadlines.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Moreover, have the courage?—?and and the discipline?—?to to defend it at all costs. ??

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. Likewise, sales and business development teams (especially in enterprise companies) are hired and paid and rewarded for bringing in large deals. Which takes us to this chain of reasoning: “I don’t remember what’s in the development pipeline.”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 18, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Job ads for Scrum Master positions reveal great insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Meetup on Feb 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

When confronted with this question, I used to hesitate, because from company to company there are a million things that can affect the roles; the product, larger organization structure, product development process, cultural differences, regional differences in commonly-used titles, the list goes on. Is alignment and reporting an issue?

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Indicative

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Here is our January recap of the latest product releases : Scheduled Reports. Thanks to customer feedback we have a lot of exciting features in the pipeline, that’s why we’d love if you shared your feedback (good or bad) here through our two-question survey ! Scheduled Reports. Project Filters. New Features.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So rent rent rent We’re in the Agile Devt software business rent rent build?  After all, we're smarter than other teams.   and then the next.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ”  “Once product/engineering give us hard dates tied to exact feature definitions and use cases and Ideal Customer Profiles, Sales can form the right account-based selling teams.” 

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. Have they been hands-on with data and reporting before?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. If defining project scopes, reviewing solutions, and generating reports interest you, this is the perfect career. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

And if you’re here to find the best project management tool available, I have some bad news for you. Requirements differ from company to company, from team to team, and even from person to person. Jira is the best-selling software development tool from Atlassian. Trello for development and design teams?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. In a recent product management insights report , as many as 57% of PMs said they don’t spend enough or any time road mapping. As many as 69% reported being responsible for organizing customer interviews?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

” The tester said, “If the developers didn't put so many problems in, we'd be done by now.” ” The developer said, “If you didn't pressure me so much, I could have done a better job.” That's because product development is a system of work. ” They're all right. What Do Testers Do?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

We manage everything from product launch, forecasting, planning to product marketing and sales and when things change drastically Product Managers are expected to be agile and stay on top of technology tools to save the day. Therefore, it is crucial for every product team to manage and deliver quality content in order to remain alive.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. Code-free workarounds can 2x your feature adoption despite bad UX. UX debt is not completely avoidable, there are quick-fixes you can apply to mitigate its consequences though.

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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. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni This book is all about the fascinating and complex world of teams. It explores the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2018

PM/PO, here is how you can have some deliver predictability with basic statistic applying in the team throughput TL:DR; How can we have the predictability of team deliver? Answers that all PM/PO would like to know Like a Product Manager/Owner, is an important thing to know how the team is performing.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. Take Stock Regularly. “If The concept is so simple, but so effective.

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Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), The Impact of Pre-Release Product Testing on Star Ratings (Report). Beta Testing at the Speed of Agile (Luke Freiler on Pragmatic Marketing).

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. By the time they need to be replaced few, if any, people from the original team are still around and, in any case, and no one fully understands the IT in detail. Replacing them is an expensive and high-stakes endeavour.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Price: Basic plan starts at $25 / month for 5 team members. Collaboration tools.

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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. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. Product teams responsible for introducing new solutions to the market are embracing agile workflows and need to engage in higher-velocity decision-making to inform recurring code sprints. Achieve better business outcomes.

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