The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

User stories are an important part of product development, which means they’re something that any product manager worth their salt needs to master! Here’s everything you need to know about agile user stories for product managers. They help teams to manage workflow with both speed and flexibility. What Are User Stories?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. Product Management in the 90s The 90s in tech. At the time, Microsoft had Program Managers who were essentially engineers. Sound familiar?

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Modus Create

AUGUST 28, 2019

This is part of the How to Prepare for Atlassian Certification blog series. In this part of our series, we cover how to tackle the ACP-300 exam for the Agile Development with Jira Software (ACP-JSW) certification. The ACP-300 is the certification exam for Agile Development in Jira Software.

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Clever PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

I’ll be attending my second formal training this year, getting my Certified Scrum Master certification to match the Certified Product Manager certification that I picked up earlier this year.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 12, 2020

The B2B Product Manager August 2020. The B2B Product Manager August 2020 looks at the blessing and the curse that goes with marketing and selling feature-rich products. There’s one key strategic part of product management that got lost in the agile shuffle. Enjoy the B2B Product Manager August 2020 issue.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Are you trying to break into Product Management? These budding product managers have many things in common. Most of them are familiar with Agile theory and terminology. They attend product meetups regularly, perhaps they have even taken a course or certification. I’ll start with the bad news. Stand out From the Crowd.

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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BrainStation Product Management

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Product Managers are often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of products – in other words, the people who steer a product’s lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond. A product management certificate is worth it, and many Product Managers (or aspiring Product Managers) are enrolling in certification programs.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2019

I spoke at Agile 2019 last week. Here are my thoughts and where I think the “agile” industry is headed. Problems I See with “Agile” Here's a summary of problems I saw last week: Too many people think “agile” will solve all their problems. Culture requires management involvement.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. Interim Product Manager Some consultants only play interim product roles.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

Our students are a mix of full-time graduate students and working professionals who pursue a graduate certificate while working. They learn how to manage by outcomes and how to co-create change. It’s hard to be Agile when the rest of the business wants fixed delivery dates or wants to dictate requirements.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 14, 2018

Mike got me thinking; should product managers also require a licence do their job? After all, we’re a sizeable professional community and having a product management certification or licence in place would ensure that all product managers comply with the same standards. The Case For Licensing and Certification.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2020

Remote Agile Event Planning?—?a My solution to this challenge is going the extra mile regarding the remote agile event planning. As we will use Liberating Structures frequently during the remote agile event, I point to an article series covering Liberating Structures for Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. In the case of someone like a Software product manager, this may prove challenging. After all, product managers have different duties and tasks depending on their organization and industry. Let’s dive right in.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP). Still, there’s a place for certification on your resume. It’s not easy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager? Behind the Questions… 1.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Weinberg in his series of Quality Software Management books discussed “steering” as a way to guide projects to success, in 1992. Womack and Daniel T.

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The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

The rise in cross-functional product teams has resulted in product managers , developers, strategists, and product owners attaining a lot of skills. The product owner, in particular the agile product owner, is involved in multiple aspects of the product lifecycle. Ensure you have a Product Owner Certification on your resume.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 11, 2020

Comprehensive list of reviews for top 8 product management courses and certifications. And many want to try the product management field from fields like software engineering, QA testing, etc. Do you know how to effectively manage a product during challenging times? List – Top 8 Product Management Courses.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 4, 2018

MVP like any process needs to be managed well otherwise goals and expectations will not be clear. The challenge of MVP lies in its execution and managing of expectations around an innovative idea. Don Stoddard is currently Head of Product Management for a stealth mode AI venture in HCM.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. There way too many of you. If not, read it now.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

In all of these roles I was a product manager or led product management. Today, I’m very proud to be the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master’s in Product Management (MSPM) program. I have been a part of product management and in a product manager role as it has matured in definition and visibility.

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BrainStation Product Management

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Product Managers are often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of products – in other words, the people who steer a product’s lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond. A product management certificate is worth it, and many Product Managers (or aspiring Product Managers) are enrolling in certification programs.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” and wondered how it’s different from traditional product management. This guide takes a deep dive into the world of technical product management , showing you how to become one of these in-demand professionals.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And you might even have heard of their innovative framework for organising teams and scaling products in agile. The Spotify model dates back to 2011 when Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson, at the behest of their colleagues, published a whitepaper: Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters, and Guilds.

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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. Usually, we find that the challenge of becoming agile is way larger than most companies like to admit. The task had been set, and we were expected to become an Agile organization in no time.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

JUNE 10, 2020

The pair realized early on that they would have to transition their clients from traditional warehousing and replication-based data architectures to more modern and agile solutions. With these objectives in mind, we then analyze their data management architecture and propose ways to modernize it. . Yes absolutely.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more). Leading the Product.

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