Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. This is not agile.

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end.

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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 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise. A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers. Lean Startup.

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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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. 5 out of 5.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

By the time you’ve done enough to be certain, you might as well have spent your time building the software. Agile vs Waterfall. Long-term planning in an agile environment can seem like a paradox but what if there was a way to do long-term planning while still retaining agility? Managing Stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow. In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages.

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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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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn why poor prioritization happens.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 12, 2018

Perhaps more commonly referred to as “Missionaries over Mercenaries” by many important product leaders, great engineering teams care that their work is helping users, and they measure their work against the benefits that they are able to provide to users. Can they adapt to your agile environment? Do they add to your team’s culture?

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In software development, it's also not the most valuable player , which has the same initialism, but it's used on completely different areas. Small startups do it as much as big corporations, and it's always more a question of strategy than it is of imposed constraints. But how does one starts to build a MVP?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. I don’t think we do a good job at defining and hiring for the right skill sets for these teams. Yes, a LONG time ago.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. There was no-one in the middle to ‘ translate ’.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. I don’t think we do a good job at defining and hiring for the right skill sets for these teams. Yes, a LONG time ago.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Backlog Anti-Patterns The third Hands-on Agile webinar product backlog anti-patterns covers common problems from out-dated and oversized tickets to the part-time proxy product owner and his or her idea repository. It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. Why does everyone come to me about Agile Methodology?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. Finally, a lot of teams – especially in larger organizations -- are misaligned on priorities.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. The best books available can help you learn more about product management, collaboration, habits, remote teams, different methodologies, and more. Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. My goal was to put our varied methodologies and techniques (Lean, Agile, Jobs-to-be-Done, design thinking, etc.) The Lean Startup.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. The following is a framework that I use (loosely based on the Scaled Agile Framework ) to help navigate the strategy maze and to stay focused on influencing the appropriate stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2019

To discover a product that is valuable, usable and feasible” These are a few other great articles on defining the PM role; Intercom Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager This article by Dan Schmidt (Extension of the Venn Diagram) Why do we need a comprehensive definition? 9- The Team? —? 4- The organization’s ‘Product Culture’ ?—?

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Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

I sat down with this self-proclaimed loud mouth to discuss his keynote at DECISIONS 2018 , and Jez kindly agreed to do a brief Q&A so we could pick his brain on the state of things in the world of software delivery. People he encounters will often say, “Hey, have you heard of this lean product development?” Have you heard of it?”

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