The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. In my case, at Zalando , these are systems for fashion buying, supply chain management, inventory management and procure-to-pay processes (e.g. At Zalando, we changed this.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. Part 1 was about individual work. I admit it.

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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. It's time for performance reviews. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. The disconnect is not one piece—it's an entire system. What do we do?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2020

TL; DR: Lipstick Agile?—?Happiness Have you noticed how many people in the agile field are unhappy with their work situation? A situation where an organization already struggles doing agile, not to mention ‘becoming agile?’ This is what I call lipstick Agile. They are supposed to write code.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It provides the speed and efficiency mobile apps require for constantly changing products while maintaining the security and integrity of existing systems. Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

One company I worked with, for example, assigned developers who had worked on enterprise systems using an ancient programming language to develop a brand-new, embedded product with the latest technologies. This led to a bloated, over-complicated code base and a product that was difficult to adapt and expensive to maintain.

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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? Build and maintain a clean code base to enable fast releases. Jim Highsmith published Adaptive Software Development in 1999.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. To help you, we’ve listed the 10 best customer lifecycle management platforms in the market, including key features, user reviews, and pricing. The best customer lifecycle software in the market includes: Userpilot. Customer.io. Get a demo.

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. Feature toggles have become increasingly popular among software developers. This is probably due to their ability to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market velocity, and increase reliability. Take notes! Take notes!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

It provides the speed and efficiency mobile apps require for constantly changing products while maintaining the security and integrity of existing systems. Our product, marketing, and customer service software helps companies make predictive decisions based on real-time measurement of their customers’ voices.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

That's brittleness in the system. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). I used the image from Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation as a way to think about the feedback loop realities in a serial approach.). (I If you're like many of the teams I meet, you've sort of got a handle on things.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Image by Cody Cai Design system governance models help organizations manage and maintain design systems across teams and products. There are three popular models —  Solitary , Centralized , and Federated  — each offer different approaches to how design systems are governed within an organization. Image by Nathan Curtis.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Are systems in place for automation (e.g. If your organisation isn’t where it needs to be, the Harvard Business Review provides a helpful 2×2 grid for grading your organisation’s approach to quality management, and a pathway for improving it. Code Reviews VI. How willing is the organisation to invest in preventing bugs?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Software bugs are a budget killer for your company and a buzzkill for your users. Even with a rigorous software testing process, one pesky bug always slips through. In 2014, a software error on Amazon caused some items to drop to just one penny. How to use session replay tools to streamline the debugging process.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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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. combined with carefully carried out due diligence?—?can Successful Banks Use Flexible Technologies to Organize Processes “The goal is to establish an Agile center of gravity around our company”?—?German

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

It’s a combination of IT software and LEGO blocks. ” The team got into iterative development or Agile Stage Gate, and it worked very well. [17:46] Maybe it is time for a tough re-review of the entire set of projects to kill some of them to benefit the whole portfolio. Have a good data system.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Some examples: Lines of code, defect counts of any kind. If you're not refactoring the codebase over time, the code continues to grow instead of shrink and grow, etc.). Lines of code per person makes no sense. (If The timesheet was due on Friday at 2pm. My company wanted to capitalize the software effort.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Customers are no longer “trapped” with vendors they don’t want to stick with because moving data between systems is easier. With agile, the prioritization and roadmapping process may have changed, but the roadmap is still necessary in an agile world. How Agile Product Managers can Build Better Products.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Businesses and individuals are increasingly making SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications their choice software platform for their business needs. Are you an enterprise business leader or a start-up leader planning to offer your software product as a SaaS platform? billion in 2020 to $307.3 billion by 2026. billion by 2026.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2020

But, someone checks in code that breaks something “over there.” Company A is working on its umpteenth “agile transformation.” One of the big problems is that the managers think agile approaches will give them faster delivery. Software product development is about learning , first. They understood.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 23, 2015

We’re all aware that we pretty much suck at estimating how long it will take to build a given piece of software. Since building software products is essentially exploratory work, we are usually lacking at least one of these conditions (a fourth one, the Why , often also goes unanswered, but that’s a whole ‘nother topic.).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, with the growing need for innovation and agility, many of these companies are looking at methodologies like Lean Startup to help them adapt and thrive in turbulent waters. But, just as an ocean liner wasn’t designed for quick maneuvers, large corporations face unique challenges when trying to implement agile approaches.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article. Imagine you scan a QR code with your smartphone, and it takes 10 seconds to return a result. The restaurant might gravitate to a different offering if you cannot connect with its existing systems.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2020

Every day I experience how working in channels makes information more transparent, lets our teams be more agile and helps me stay connected with my coworkers in real time. For example, we run a weekly executive product review with a small group, sparing people’s time from unnecessary meetings, and then “pin” the notes in a public channel.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Just as the standardisation of brands through corporate brand guidelines once signalled the end of exploration in advertising agencies, the standardisation of user interfaces through unified patterns and design systems now marks a similar trend in digital product design. Designers have designed themselves out of the equation.

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