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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

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. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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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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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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How to Perform A Product Feature Analysis

Userpilot

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. Extract feature development insights. Best practices to help product managers perform feature analysis: Perform user research and analyze your competitors’ products to find market gaps. This article aims to simplify feature analysis.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So Some of my concerns: This arrangement creates an incentive for 'core' Engineering teams to ignore issues or kick the can down the road.  Knowing

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What Do We Owe Our Teams?

Mironov Consulting

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last

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Aha Moment: The Ultimate Guide for Product Managers (+Examples)

Userpilot

We also look at different types of Aha moments and their examples in SaaS products. For example, this could be the moment when users realize the value of a premium plan and decide to upgrade. You can do it by providing users with on-demand self-service support, for example, through a resource center. Let’s get right to it!