Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

This metaphor carries over to product management — improving the performance of a product management team can come through improving their techniques (such as grooming a backlog) or through improving their strategic sensibilities (such as taking a strategic approach to business planning).

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

According to the Senior Product Manager of UberEats, Ethan Hollinshead , having a deep backlog of well-prioritized projects is key to operating an efficient team. The Product Owner is responsible for backlog refinement or grooming. The product owner is responsible for the product backlog. Research and Analysis.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Establishing the links between features and the corresponding advantages and benefits helps with prioritization and backlog grooming. The post Features Advantages Benefits: How SaaS Product Managers Should Use The FAB Model appeared first on Thoughts about Product Adoption, User Onboarding and Good UX | Userpilot Blog.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

This metaphor carries over to product management — improving the performance of a product management team can come through improving their techniques (such as grooming a backlog) or through improving their strategic sensibilities (such as taking a strategic approach to business planning).

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager must then communicate where every incoming idea sits in the product backlog or why it didn’t make it into the product backlog. The post Product Manager Role – Everything You Need to Know appeared first on Thoughts about Product Adoption, User Onboarding and Good UX | Userpilot Blog.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Product rituals like standups, backlog grooming meetings, and retrospectives work well for people brought up in typical egalitarian Western cultures like the US, Canada, and the UK. Same applies to all managers out there: you will need training, and reading 10 blog posts won’t magically make you a guru of cross-cultural leadership.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Regular backlog grooming and demo meetings give the team a chance to clarify what to build. Velocity is a valuable metric that enables product managers, product owners , and scrum masters to estimate how quickly the team can work through the backlog items. That’s because you only build what customers need. What are agile epics?

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All About Product Management

JULY 29, 2010

We are currently using a hybrid of Scrum and waterfall (the logic behind this will form the basis of a later blog post). I introduced myself as a product manager who ‘eats their own dog food’ – in other words I’m an active user of online tools, blogging platforms, social media and networking sites.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes: a) Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal; b) Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items; c) Ordering Product Backlog items; and, d) Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Photo by Berkay Gumustekin on Unsplash How backlogs are like your dog I was certified as a scrum master more than 10 years ago now. Early on in class they were talking about sprint planning: you take your backlog and work with the product owner to pick what you want to do in the next sprint. Let’s call him “Backlog”.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s really up to them to come to you ready to define what the problem is and use the decision-making framework to validate their spot in your feature backlog. This means triaging, sorting and grooming the requests. A new feature always comes down to a problem needing to be solved. We recommend keeping a list called "The parking lot".

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 21, 2020

This guide about How to Create a Project Management Communication Plan is originally posted on Django Stars blog Written by Iryna Meshchankina ?—?QA When all the expectations are presented and the goals for all the teams from the product perspective are clear, the result of the Pre-Refinement meeting is a high-level scope ready for grooming.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Feature prioritization and backlog grooming. To avoid falling into the build trap, effective feature prioritization and backlog grooming are essential. The post Product Market Fit Framework: How to Achieve and Maintain PMF appeared first on Thoughts about Product Adoption, User Onboarding and Good UX | Userpilot Blog.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2019

Three factors are vital for success: It is important to set the right scenarios , the right focus group and the right insights to feed back into your backlog. Select the right insights to feed back to our development backlog 1. How do we do it Think about the core features we put into the product backlog?—?The So, what now?

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

It also fits backlog grooming sessions and enhances discussions about the time a certain task requires to implement. As your product roadmap , the features in your backlog don’t solidify like rigid elements, so they need prioritizing again and again. Its biggest advantage lies in the concept’s ease to understand.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In practice, this means using qualitative and quantitative data for backlog grooming and prioritization of the product features that customers will find most valuable and which allow realizing organizational goals. Leverage data to build data-driven product roadmaps.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

One of the first blog posts I wrote used a Venn diagram to define product management as the intersection of the customer, technology, and business, but of course it doesn’t just end there. If you’re only using product managers to groom backlogs, you’re only getting half their value. Cross-Functional Teams.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

So, stand ups, no problem, but where I think sprint planning and backlog grooming has actually been something that we’ve struggled with a lot. So what we’ve been trying to figure out is how do you do the right level of backlog grooming and sprint planning? Do you get all the engineers?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Here’s what I have found typically works well for most agile teams: Bi-weekly: Backlog grooming sessions. Credits: A few of the ideas were inspired by Ken Norton’s sardonic blog post and Megan Berry’s blog post on the same topic. Better yet, eliminate them. Sizing / estimation sessions. Daily: Standups.

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Userpilot

MAY 10, 2023

AI-powered user behavior analytics can help PMs make data-driven product and backlog prioritization decisions that will have the greatest impact on user experience. Use AI for backlog grooming Traditionally backlog grooming is a process that’s very much dependent on the good judgment of the product manager or product owner.

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