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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. What is Bad Performance? 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. Third, the team observes sustainable pace. Share Your Views but Don’t Tell People What to Do.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Consequently, you often have to run longer meetings. 1 Set an Objective.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link]. If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. 1 The Product Roadmap is a Feature-based Plan.

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How to Perform A Product Feature Analysis

Userpilot

This article aims to simplify feature analysis. Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. Review feature usage data.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

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. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. The Product Backlog is Too Big.