Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

Is your team Agile or Fragile? designed using: canva.com With the massive increase in the number of products launched in the past decade, a lot of organizations have adopted the AGILE approach as a system of managing their processes. This approach has made software development more effective in the last couple of years.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. This can make it challenging to help a development team improve.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:36] What problems have you ran into related to aligning business strategy and product work? Engineering had a lot of power.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2021

I suspect this is because many people are mistakenly confusing having a plan with having a strategy. Strategies need to be clear before you start, and change very little. A strategy describes how you intend to achieve your goal. It outlines steps, processes, deadlines, and milestones; and it is informed by the strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. Unlike traditional approaches to software development, Scrum does not offer the role of a project manager.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2021

One of the many Agile myths is that it is difficult to manage evolving requirements. However, veterans of the software testing world know that agile development is a superior method to manage the constantly changing needs that many software development projects encounter.

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Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

Agile is a software development methodology. Agile development is a methodology for building software, and it’s a good one! Smaller teams cranking out measurable units of software every 2-4 weeks and iterating toward usable features has done wonders for software development.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Senior Product Manager @ Citrusbyte (New York City) Keywords: Consulting, Design, Product, Strategy, UX [link]. UI / UX Designer @ Citrusbyte (New York City; Multiple Locations) Keywords: Design, Product, Strategy, UI, UX [link]. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration. It's time for performance reviews.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 11, 2017

When an executive, too far removed from what makes creating products hard thinks of “agile” as a silver bullet it becomes difficult to manage expectations. The business practice of agility (small a) – specifically when an organization, and not just a technology team, adopts the practice – has a lot of potential.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

. “Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Act I: Embracing agile principles.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

To achieve that level of confidence and to build products in that space we as product managers have to focus on a few key principals before we plan on getting the next thing in the marketplace.The four major principals we generally go by are Vision, Strategy, Team and Rapid learning. Product Takeoff by Navjot Singh, Kamal Manglani.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. by Jonny Schneider, Head of Product Strategy and Design.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Arkenea

MAY 8, 2025

If you’re considering expanding your development capabilities beyond your in-house team, you’ve likely encountered the term “ nearshore software development in Mexico ” during your research. Offshore Software Development involves partnering with development teams in more distant countries.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. But it is not the only game in town.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. Decide on the SaaS model, product strategy, and the pricing strategy Formulate your strategy before undertaking software development. Agile project teams need to focus on value to clients.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies. I need product VPs to develop a product strategy and measure its effectiveness. We do it often in actionable ways.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

9:24] What issues do you see with strategy? A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The strategy is the plan of attack for how you’re going to get there. 12:41] How can leaders better communicate strategy? Communicating strategy requires a lot of repetition.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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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. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Learn more on Retrospectives.)

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Weinberg in his series of Quality Software Management books discussed “steering” as a way to guide projects to success, in 1992.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. What is Agile?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem Today we welcome Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. What brought you to ‘agile?’ “ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. He sold solutions, I developed them.

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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Today’s agile methodology demands speed and agility in all phases of software development – including testing. Risk of QA failure in the agile workspace.

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership.

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Modus Create

APRIL 1, 2019

Modus is pleased to announce Agile 2.0.0 We have taken agile to the power of two by applying Agile to Agile, and eliminating all the waste in software development. We are so taken with this new version of Agile that our entire team has collaborated on this article using modern Agile 2.0.0

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

In today’s competitive business environment, technology is increasingly shaping the strategies that companies develop to try to outdo their competition. One of the main examples of this are the customized software applications that companies are rushing to develop to allow them to better connect with their users.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 8, 2019

In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. From there, we’ll walk you through the agile roadmapping process step by step. Eisenhower.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Quality of software costs time and it costs money. By shifting testing left and establishing test automation in the software development process, we can reduce risk, time and cost in discovering issues and/or defects. Key Concepts 1. Why Automate?

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