The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product owner plays a central role in agile product development philosophy and scrum for development teams. Communication Skills According to the Scrum Guides , one of the tasks that a product owner is responsible for is creating and communicating product backlog items and communicating product goals with cross-functional teams.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

.” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. In Scrum—the framework that gave birth to the product owner—the role is responsible for maximising the value a product creates for the users and for the business. That’s usually challenging enough.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. John Cutler first used the term to describe such companies because their software development processes resemble factory assembly lines. What is a feature factory?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Similarly, 88% of users don’t return to a website after bad user experience. So what’s a developer to do? Developers need to tap into the world of UX design to offer seamless experiences that keep the user loyal to their brand. What does UX have to do with software development, anyway? Don’t be that developer.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. We were so rigorous about following the rules that we completely missed the spirit of agile software development.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. Create frameworks for aligning company, org, team, and individual goals.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space. What can be cut first?

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Modus Create

MARCH 6, 2020

With the relentless pace of innovation using Lean software development, we’ve seen an explosion in the use of serverless technologies with a mantra of “NoOps.” Research has shown teams implementing modern DevOps practices are significantly higher performing than those who don’t. 5 times lower change failure rate.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. The Agile industry has taken the principles of the manifesto and added on an ever-growing set of accompanying processes and tools. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash As Square grew from one credit card reader into a platform of products, what started out as a simple admin tool also grew organically into a behemoth monolith. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. MetaLab reworked the company’s website and app, redesigned its logo, and created most of what users see when they interact with the messaging tool today.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Once you start developing a feature, you should also test it regularly. Next, use the right tool to collect the right information and use the data to inform new developments. For example, you can use software like Hotjar to record user sessions to identify friction points. Identify and fix bugs quickly.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08 To be at an advantage when fixing bugs, a lot depends on how the software team is structured, and how the code is written: Have proper documentation. Use popular frameworks.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2019

Software development is rarely linear. If the team is unable to successfully manage those processes, it could cause chaos during development, and the customer will face sharp increase in development time and poor quality of work. This project management framework is founded on clear and simple principles?—?the

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2022

Now all the philosophical aspects about accepting failure aside, what we, as a society, have developed is undervaluing the power that comes from overcoming and correcting a mistake. Practicing this over and over again creates a framework for your mind and cultivates structured thinking. All of them had one thing in common?—?they

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Therefore, we went to sleep on a Friday and next Monday we were now an “Agile” team. Situations like this are not uncommon.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. You know, we’re in a technological age where we can be applying some tools to this.

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2018

Failing is an eventuality in software development. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. Here are some of the hacks and tools I’ve found that have made my decision making easier, and which have helped to make my failures a positive learning experience.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Using robust cyber security tools and solutions. Social engineering is a threat because it is a way for criminals and bad actors to access sensitive information by tricking people into revealing it. Poor Cyber Hygiene. Aligning to a framework such as the CIS critical control framework or the NIST CSF.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Nevertheless, the experiences that many software engineers have with most recruiters aren't that great. However, job recruiters have a bit of a bad rap.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2018

PM/PO, here is how you can have some deliver predictability with basic statistic applying in the team throughput TL:DR; How can we have the predictability of team deliver? Answers that all PM/PO would like to know Like a Product Manager/Owner, is an important thing to know how the team is performing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? How do you handle poor performers? How would you describe your role in coaching and career development? Tell me about a few people on your team and the career development plans you created with them. How do you balance feature development and technical debt?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Overview of Eureka framework for user onboarding.

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Izenda

JUNE 2, 2020

Between the ascent of.NET Core projects and the persistence of Java, evangelism for frameworks and other stack foundations seems at an all-time high. A visual, interactive road map of your current tech stack and the new suggestion helps the entire team understand your company’s technologies. What tools are popular in your industry?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2019

Agile is dead: SCRUM implementation survival guide | BraveGeeks by Yuri Mediakov, PM at BraveGeeks Team Photo by Frode Myklebust on Unsplash Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto, has declared Agile as dead, stating that the values of being agile have been totally lost behind the implementation.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 7, 2022

The best performing product managers are candidates who are inquisitive, methodical, and mindful of their own limitations or weaknesses. They're skilled at formulating solutions to complex product problems and establishing precise and measurable development goals. Thankfully, there are tools like Jobscan that help make it easier.

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