The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) Anti-patterns will emerge when core principles (as laid out in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and the Scrum Guide) are ignored, made to fit existing structures, or watered down.

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CardBoard

JULY 23, 2023

The Problem with Traditional Estimation Estimation in software development is often treated like a science. It assumes a level of familiarity and predictability that simply doesn’t exist in software development. But as we’ve seen, software development is a journey into the unknown.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Every day, well almost every day, Shireen thought that she must go out and exercise. How does Shireen maintain her promise to exercise every day? Feel more motivated to exercise? Can Shireen get her daily quota of exercise through her existing routine? Shireen is a Software developer. Shireen has a problem!

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The company is a B2B software developer. She took them through exercises to explore their work styles and better align their styles to the execution needed using the Innovation Z model. The company is a B2B software developer. We discussed the tools to do this. Teresa is the President of Global NP Solutions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

(This is a post on its own again, but check out this video in the meantime) Feature Mapping is a scoping exercise to help teams decide the MVP for your product 3. Software development is highly unpredictable? Software development is unpredictable. Work with the tech lead on this. Use high-level timeframes e.g

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time. He had also worked with engineers while working at the management consulting firm and was familiar with the software development lifecycle.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Software development projects require a maker mindset and comprehensive planning to be successful. Modus Kickstart helps to align and prepare for development by first bringing the three key players of software development together: product, UX, and engineering. Collaboration Between UX, Product, and Engineering.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Plus/Deltas Plus/Delta is a short reflection exercise to exchange feedback, typically between 2 people. The exercise allows the pair to come to an understanding of what went well (plus), and what can be changed to improve collaboration in the future (delta).

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message. Overall, some valuable lessons captured from this exercise, “How does this strategy framing help translate into actions?”. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

To kick things off, would you like to share a little bit about yourself and how you ended up as founder at Cliniko, the practice management software used by more than 30,000 people in over 70 countries? My background is as a software developer, and I’ve been doing that for just over 20 years. Joel Friedlaender: Sure.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2021

Moshe Miklanovsky, a Software Developer-turned Product Manager and a co-host of the Product-for-Product podcast , explains which technical skills are essential for Product Managers based on his 30-year career in tech. This will be a great exercise for them as well. But where have Product Managers come from?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

If this is you, I have a simple tool you can use to articulate why things ( might ) take as long as they do, explain it in a way that is helpful to those who are unfamiliar with software development, and finally, provide a simple 5 minute exercise you can do each week to get a bit faster. 35% of the company met that criteria.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

In our specially designed auditions, product managers perform real-world exercises to assess how they think about problems in an environment where nobody from the company knows anything about their experience, their background, or their formal education. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15.

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Atomic Spin PM

JULY 10, 2019

Understanding what a project will cost is an important factor when embarking on custom software development. We use several estimation approaches to focus on a responsible range where a product development team can find success. Embarking on custom software development means creating something new.

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Atomic Spin PM

JULY 10, 2019

Understanding what a project will cost is an important factor when embarking on custom software development. We use several estimation approaches to focus on a responsible range where a product development team can find success. Embarking on custom software development means creating something new.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve done courses in related areas like software development, marketing and project management but hold almost no formal certifications. If you’re still not sure where to start, go get a copy of Pieter Levels’ Bootstrappers Handbook and follow the exercises at the end of each chapter. Which Training Course Should I do?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. 566 global ratings.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Once the Product Owner has refreshed the team’s understanding of what the product vision is, we move on to the product box exercise.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 Product Management (and Engineering & Design) see continuous customer interviewing and intellectually honest experimentation as this decade’s biggest game-changer: better discovery is how we deliver more value with the same development staff.  (See  (See Teresa Torres’s bestselling product book.)

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

By Jasmine Slivka The idea of Agile is an iterative approach to software development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once with an arbitrary deadline (as with traditional “waterfall” approaches). User stories are useful exercises.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The cultural values at Coinbase used to evaluate candidates is: Clear communication Efficient execution Act like an owner Top talent Championship team Customer focus Repeatable innovation Positive energy Continuous learning The company is notable for using pair programming exercises during the technical rounds of interviewing.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

The UX aspect of product development requires you to conduct extensive customer and market research as well as carry out usability tests and product validation exercises. Product managers must know how to manage these aspects of the development process while meeting user needs and the technical demands of their AI products.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve done courses in related areas like software development, marketing and project management but hold almost no formal certifications. If you’re still not sure where to start, go get a copy of Pieter Levels’ Bootstrappers Handbook and follow the exercises at the end of each chapter. Which Training Course Should I do?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

No software developer wakes up in the morning excited to write a bunch of code that will be re-written a few sprints later. They bypass ROI calculations, due diligence, prioritization exercises, and customer validation. Why do product teams become feature factories? Product managers don’t want to ship features no one will use.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Scheduling is an exercise in masochism Because the act of scheduling is painstaking. As a Product Manager and Product Owner, I have literally scheduled meetings that I did not attend so several people could speak. But we were able to move forward because of these meetings. Why will no one else do it?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Product leadership requires cross-disciplinary thinking from fields as software development to manufacturing. Best practices are fascinating thought exercises, but if they don’t affect change, that is all they are. The long hours working on a craft can take a toll if you don’t have the right people behind you.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The purpose of an impact mapping process in software development. The key advantage of the application is that your whole team can collaborate remotely and take part in multiple impact mapping exercises. User Journey Map Template. Strategic planning.

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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2021

Docker for Developers is perhaps the most comprehensive source of information on all things Docker and a wide range of technologies associated with Docker and deployment in the cloud. The book is oriented toward software development, deployment, and security. Book Outline. Chapter 1: Introduction to Docker.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. As the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” states, it is mainly about adaptability over following a plan. Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 30, 2020

Many product teams just do the market research at the initial stages of product development. Once the software development life cycle takes over, many product teams do not focus on continuous market research. Like market research, competitor analysis should be an ongoing exercise. Market Research. It can never stop.

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Split

AUGUST 25, 2020

Pato – In shaping the idea that became Split, we recognized that feature flags and experimentation sit at the foundation of agile development principles. (Or In today’s software development world, being fast and lean, and bringing value to customers with the same speed and efficiency is crucial. Trust yourself.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It’s an intensive and fun exercise where you put a thing you’ve built through its paces. Most people should come from Product, Design, and Engineering because a) they have a knack for Product, b) they know what to expect from the exercise, c) their feedback is easier to process, and d) they’re more likely to volunteer. A bug-what??

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

There are many effective ways to write a narrative, and I experimented with many of them until finally I stumbled upon The Story Spine , an improv exercise made popular by Brian McDonald and included in Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling. not a user story, but a true narrative of my product.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2020

The INDUSTRY team and I are refitting this day workshop as a live online session – including breakouts and exercises. We will do some skills-building, group exercises, and safely ask tough questions. We will tackle some challenging issues: What product leaders do.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

You can run a powerful exercise, called a premortem, to help discover in advance what is wrong with your plan. In software development, “doing something” is creating work-in-process inventory. I’ve listed them for the sake of thoroughness – although I have only once seen this a driver of failure.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ultimately, these types of exercises are futile, especially in analytics where bad records (even tens of thousands of them) account for 0.001% of the data and are therefore insignificant when looking at a larger trend. Precision is great—but only when it’s feasible. Without a Steward, no one knows what’s oustanding.

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