Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management.

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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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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. These workshops are fun, and they are also useful to align the team and get everyone on the same page.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

My model achieves this by involving the individuals in creating and updating the plans in the form of collaborative workshops, which take place at least once every three months. As figure 3 shows, the person in charge of the product should lead the strategy workshops and ensure that the right decision are made.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Consider sharing the input beforehand when you run a strategy workshop so that people can prepare for the meeting. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. 1 Set an Objective.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!). As one of the earliest Agile product managers, Jeff Patton has seen the “brand” of Agile degrade – even so far as speakers eliciting spontaneous applause by saying “I hate Agile.”

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Miro

APRIL 28, 2020

Using Miro to run seamless remote meetings & workshopsWhether you’re running a professional workshop, holding an impromptu brainstorming session, or transitioning your Agile ceremonies online, managing and facilitating online sessions can be challenging.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A great way to achieve a shared roadmap is to involve the individuals in the product roadmapping decisions, preferably in the form of a collaborative workshop—be it online or onsite. Note that collaborative roadmapping does not mean that everybody gets their way or is necessarily super happy with every single decision.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Those outcomes can help teams decide which agile approach(es) to start with and adapt. Let's start with who wants the teams to use an agile approach. Who Wants the Teams to Use an Agile Approach? Before I had the “agile” word, I discussed iterating over feature sets and delivering small increments.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 20, 2023

I have opened the Q2 2023 Free Your Inner Writer workshop for registration. If you want my support in your writing, take the workshop. (If If you haven't yet bought the book, I'll give you a copy as part of the workshop.) See the syllabus on the Free Your Inner Writer workshop page. I can help. Register now. Contact me.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. Collaborative Product Backlog Workshop.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A great way to engage the key stakeholders and development team members is to run a collaborative workshop, be it online or in the office. Ask your Scrum Master or another experienced facilitator to help prepare the workshop and facilitate the session.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out. How can managers work as agile teams do, so they can change direction?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

40:42 | What are good examples of teams who have effectively scaled their product organisations with multiple levels of product managers and multiple agile teams? Communication & Alignment Workshop. Product Management Foundations Workshop. Question 1 . Using The Kano Model To Prioritize Product Development (blog).

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Mind the Product

MAY 12, 2021

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, sponsored by Lucid, the company’s customer success manager Gavan Moule takes us through ways we can facilitate Agile workshops and team working using Lucidspark virtual whiteboards. Read more » The post Tools for agile product teams by Gavan Moule appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Ever since the shift towards agile practices, product teams have hung on to a set of core attributes, ranging from cross-functional, to customer-centric all the way up to iterative. Ideation and Workshops. My go-to solution for remote workshops is Mural. First, don’t think of a remote workshop as an eight-hour video call.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Establishing Expectations Francesca recommended conducting expectation workshops, particularly during key organizational transitions. These workshops should address: Expectation Area Key Questions to Address Why It Matters Role Definition What specific responsibilities fall under the PM role?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 24, 2020

What is interesting is that our guest is now offering career advice after becoming known as the Agile Product guy who helps organizations build better products. You may know him from his past books, including Lean UX, Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking, and Sense & Respond. 21:16] Teach. Teach what you know. 23:27] Give it all away.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you took an agile workshop sometime in the past 15 years, you probably played the “ ball game.” Especially since they've probably suffered through way too many “agile” workshops with more and more games. We now have a team environment that can use agile principles, but we're not quite done.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Also, there’s nothing wrong with the agile manifesto of course. Because thinking and acting agile and lean is mainly a mindset and nothing you implement like a new time booking system. Workshops for the sake of workshops on an operative level are not the big thing. So agile and lean are two major keys.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Agile on the Beach. Front UX & Product Management Workshop Series. MTP Engage Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany. Virtual and physical location TBD. July . Falmouth, UK. ACM SIGIR Conference. Madrid, Spain. Nashville, TN. September . Virtual and Dublin, Ireland. Salt Lake City, UT.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Workshop Presenters. Workshop tickets Conference tickets. More conference speakers coming soon!

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2020

The processes don't have sufficient agility to deliver the necessary results. Yet, people who want to use agile approaches don't want to apply agile thinking to their processes. Some clients want to create their custom agile process— and then standardize it across the organization. My Processes and My Agility.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. This is best done by having regular, collaborative strategy workshops as well as attending sprint review meetings. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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Product Management University

JUNE 12, 2017

Some days it feels like Agile frameworks are dictating how product management is done. On the other hand, when product management and Agile are 100% complementary, the end result is solutions that make customers better at whatever they do. . Let’s call a spade a spade – Agile is not a product management framework.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

Unlike traditional research projects that often require extensive planning and formal structure, AI-powered approaches offer more agility and flexibility. The speed and efficiency of AI analysis makes it a highly agile tool for course correction.

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UX Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Facilitating UX Workshops: As the name suggests, this course was about understanding the different kinds of UX workshops, and how to better plan and conduct them. Lean UX and Agile: This course turned out to be the most useful in my case as my team follows the Agile Scrum technology.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

A great way to co-develop the product strategy and roadmap—as well as to review and update the plans—is to bring people together through collaborative workshops. This is especially helpful when the group is new to collaborative decision-making and when the workshops take place online.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He is also the co-founder of Product Culture—one of his customers said about Bruce, “Coach, trusted advisor, organizational therapist—like me, you’ll probably hire Bruce because of his experience in product management or his skills as an Agile coach.” ” What a great quote. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. A focus on a “standard” agile approach, regardless of how much agility is in that approach.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You manage the stakeholders, for example, by inviting them to roadmapping workshops and sprint review meetings or by having regular one-on-ones with them. You should therefore involve them in creating and updating the plans, preferably in the form of collaborative workshops.” Strategize , 2 nd ed.,

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2020

Mind the Product has launched a new training workshop for product leaders on mapping. I meet a lot of product people – product managers, product owners, agile coaches, scrum masters, business analysts, project managers – and I’ve learned that there are a couple of constants, whatever the title or role.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

During the Definition process, a series of workshops are conducted to review the specific problem to be solved (or Job-To-Be-Done), understand what can be done to fix it, design the physical and technical solution, and prepare for the development sprints to start. As-Is and To-Be scenarios) as part of these workshops.

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Mind the Product

MAY 6, 2019

Lucia applies agility to business change with the help of four main tools: Mapping – Specifically, mapping power and influence (stakeholders). Workshopping – Workshop the “how” and “why”, not just the “what” in terms of values and behaviours in product development. The Transformation Engine.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2021

And learn a lot about agile product management, Scrum, empiricism, product design, and user experience along the way. If you intend to live up to Scrum and agile product development’s full potential, creating a shared understanding of how empiricism works among all co-workers in your organization is essential. practicing Scrum?—?on

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