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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are.

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

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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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. No matter how well thought-out your product roadmap is, it is worthless if the key stakeholders and the development team members don’t understand and support it. Actionable.

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Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters?

Roman Pichler

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. So why is the role important?

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8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.