Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The ideas of Agile are great. Design Thinking is how we explore and solve problems; Lean is our framework for testing our beliefs and learning our way to the right outcomes; and Agile is how we adapt to changing conditions with software. Agile is related to Lean. Comparing and contrasting Lean and Agile. Jeff Bezos.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2024

He was also the first head of growth at Atlassian, where he led product for Jira Agile and built the first-ever B2B growth team.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. Teams meet frequently and communicate, and the vision and work are visualized using Scrum. Eric Reis’ Lean Startup. One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. Identify and remove bottlenecks and speed everything up. [13:40]

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2018

My guest for addressing those topics is Suzanne Abate, a seasoned product coach who has developed hundreds of digital products for clients and helped dozens of startups go from idea to execution. One starting point to address the challenges is being Agile. One starting point to address the challenges is being Agile.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Vasu Vadlamudi Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

Agile development doesn’t just mean faster turnarounds and sprints. In an agile product team everyone is aware of the customer’s problem we solve, and everyone can make decision and react on issues. We have to know the vision we have behind the product, which means who do we design it for and what problems do we solve with it?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. My primary job is setting the product strategy and vision. Because I’m in a startup, I’m also the chief whiteboard cleaner and food orderer.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. The y-axis represents "ability to deliver," while the x-axis represents "completeness of vision." Here are a few of my favorites: Stack ranking.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

First published in 1997, the bestseller has influenced several generations of entrepreneurs, startup founders, and tech enthusiasts. And that opens the space for newer, faster, agile startups to serve those neglected customers, gain traction, and challenge the bigger businesses. It’s kind of a modern-day cautionary tale.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. I went on being called a Business Analyst as I worked at banks and other financial services companies. I liked this name. It introduced the concept of a Product Owner.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach. After a very promising product design phase, we sadly went from a very agile process to the bank’s traditional default waterfall technical delivery methodology. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. How to write a user interview: “Lean startups” chapter 2 only (Eric Ries) The second most important thing is to understand how to ask questions. Time goes by, runway decreases. Eventually they run out of cash and shut down.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Shaughnessy ran with the idea and organized another panel a few months later for a conference called Denver Startup Week and I had it recorded to share with you. Our moderator, Shaughnessy Speirs, has been a product manager in several software organizations with depth in agile software development and business analysis.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Vasu Vadlamudi Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This explanation should not be as detailed as what would go in a product requirements document (PRD) Market Requirements Document (MRD) Example Let’s say you’re the product manager for a SaaS startup that produces marketing automation tools. Vision statement ?—?The Do agile product teams use MRDs? Target market ?—?Describe

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. A person who lacks experience leading agile development or working in fast-paced, iterative environments. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. By and large, however, the two most popular for today's organizations are the Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. Without and further delay, let's look at two of the most common: Waterfall and Agile.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Admittedly he was joining after a disappointing spell in Italy, but his success with the Dutch champions, Ajax, with whom he won the Champions League four consecutive times, was heralded as the template for his vision at Crystal Palace. Instead you will be asked to implement your vision while making do with existing resources.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2020

Photo by Karla Vidal on Unsplash ‘How-To’ Guide for Crafting Your First Product Vision I originally packaged this up from a recent coaching session I had with a Product Manager who had been tasked for their first time to develop a product vision from scratch?—?hope A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring.

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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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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

JULY 28, 2020

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. Tools like Asana or Jira can be used for the same. Steps in Product Design and Development: a. Problem Discovery b.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Roman Pichler Roman has his own website which is well known within the product and agile development communities, but he still has a decent amount of content on Medium. Jens-Fabian Goetzmann Jens-Fabian is a top writer in the ‘leadership’ and ‘Startup’ categories for good reason. Don’t believe me? Check them out for yourself!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 8, 2024

It ensures that all stakeholders are aligned with the product vision and goals, and that there’s a cohesive strategy for product development and go-to-market. This not only enhances the product development lifecycle but also contributes to a more agile and responsive product team.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. This entire chain of changes and new approaches empowered the lean startup era.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This can easily happen if your role is changing and you’re becoming less hands-on in a rapidly growing startup or simply if you’re new to a leadership role. The “agile onion” and the layers that you as a product leader should be in. Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. What is your role?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Some startups, for example, use a Kanban-style roadmap, which is simply putting what you’re going to be building into certain buckets: what is planned, what is approved, what’s in development, and what’s been delivered. For example, organizations moving to an agile development process may have greater uncertainty over a longer period.

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