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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. Monthly or bi-monthly to get the most business agility, assuming your teams can deliver at least once a week. Quarterly if your context doesn't change that much.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity.

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Feature prioritization in product management: the key to building products that sell

Product Management Unpacked

Product management consultant Daniel Zacarias has assembled 20 prioritization techniques into the collection and grouped them into two areas: external/internal and quantitative/qualitative techniques. It’s an agile estimating and planning technique that is consensus based. Choosing one or more of these tools is important.

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Pre-Product Market Fit: Ten Great Books for Product People

The Product Coalition

Competitive analysis: “Blue ocean” (Kim, Mauborgne) Don’t get stuck into consulting matrixes. It gives you a way to identify your value propositions to differentiate. ??????????? Work with engineers: “Agile Product Management with Scrum” (Roman Pichler) There are zillions ways to apply scrum.

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Embrace Uncertainty: the art of Applying a Scientific Approach

Mind the Product

This is where the support of an agile, learning organization is an incredible benefit. As a consultant, my clients often ask me for advice on what tools and methods they can buy or use to be successful. Release planning using Jeff Patton’s story mapping or Roman Pichler’s DEEP framework for your backlog. Both are needed.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. But I’ve consulted for a long time. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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Building an Effective Product Feedback Loop

The Product Guy

But instead of inheriting or installing a cookie cutter process (Read: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall) a better approach is to take a variety of solutions and unify them into one that works best for your organization. . Knowing their differentiating capabilities can help you capture market share away from your competitors. .