Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2021

We talked with agile consultant Liz Keogh about how to get this right, who estimates are for, her invaluable scale for estimating complexity, and how to pronounce the word Cynefin. Buy Chris Matts’ ‘Real Options at Agile 2009’ book here. * ‘What is Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)?’

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Several of my clients want to use some sort of maturity assessment for their agile transformations. For agile transformation, an assessment can help people see how they change—how they innovate the products and the culture. Is agility even possible?) Do we encourage or “manage” change?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2021

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. Commodity businesses don't need agility for product development.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. What does performance management look like when we want to reward people for their collaboration? These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of product management, the quest to become a proficient coach and consultant knows no bounds. As product managers, our reach extends beyond borders and cultures, and it is crucial to understand and adapt to unique perspectives of those we teach and advise. What did you have for breakfast today?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 20, 2021

Jeffrey, Squirrel, and I continued our conversation on the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast, with Part 2. We addressed more of the Modern Management Made Easy principles. We had a great discussion about several of the principles in the Modern Management Made Easy books: Empathy. Should we even have managers? (I

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. One of these managers said, “I have so much uncertainty and ambiguity. However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. Does that sound like an agile team to you?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. Ever since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, the concept of becoming more efficient by embracing iterative delivery models and “learning-on-the-go” has captivated senior executives to junior project managers alike.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. The organization lives with many delays when the managers choose a shared services model. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. Why Managers Thought Shared Services Worked.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. Background.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The Product Management Awards (#TPMAS) are the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams. The Best Product Consultant. Jenna Gaudio. ?Jenna

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

There are many methodologies for feature prioritization in product management. If you are a product manager dealing with this, beware that one size doesn’t fit all. Product feature prioritization is one of the most difficult parts of a product manager’s job. And how does a product manager best communicate feature priorities?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? I said that if the coach wanted to move up the hierarchy in the organization, the coach needed some form of management experience. Focus on business results, not agility per se. What do I do next?” Most cannot.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Daniel Vacanti and Prateek Singh graciously invited* me to be on an episode of Drunk Agile: Episode 37 Johanna Rothman Part Deux More Bigger Aging. We didn't address this as much because I wrote about this in Manage Your Project Portfolio. Ordering the work by value, even though agile approaches hope the value changes. (Re)defining

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2023

Agile antipatterns or scrum antipatterns are (poor) practices that are utilized to enhance a process. Nonetheless, they impede your efforts and slow your progress towards attaining Agile objectives, thereby achieving the opposite effect. List of destructive agile antipatterns and how to avoid them 1.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 30, 2020

About Lean UX v Agile. * Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Randy has been working as an interactive producer and product manager across the US and UK for nearly 20 years. How everyone is a teacher.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Troubleshooting Agile – Jeffery Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel’s episode of The Product Experience. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Related Links. Follow Janna on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Mind the Product

MAY 7, 2020

In this ProductTank New York talk, Graham Siener, formerly at Pivotal but now VP of Product at VMWare, looks at how product people can understand where their true power lies when they strive to be a great product manager. A great product manager is great in any industry, says Graham. Effective agile means embracing change.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 1, 2024

(That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. In addition, here's the unedited transcript: Agile _ Adapt – Expert Talk – Johanna Rothman – April 2024 in docx format. Luke and I always have fun discussions.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:56]

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Links mentioned in this episode: * The Agile Peer Canvas. Building trust. Empowering your team(s). Overview / US / UK.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

What is each flavour of product manager responsible for? In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. What are the four flavours of product manager? In this post, I’ll go into the responsibilities for each of the four ‘flavours’ of product manager.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch. Enter GIST.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . in our “Behind the Product” series, we highlight Product Management concepts used in the products and services in today’s market. . Agile Product Development Leads to Advanced Innovation . 280 Group is the world’s leading Product Management training and consulting firm.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I believe the future of product management is product thinking. Mostly I have been on the consulting side, meaning I have always had to hand over what I have built to someone else. Just adding more product managers, is not the answer. In 2015, Martin Eriksson wrote an article about the history of product management.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Combining the two platforms enables app providers to move with the speed and agility to meet the needs of their customers, while still maintaining the security and control required for regulatory concerns. Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. A focus on a “standard” agile approach, regardless of how much agility is in that approach.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 9, 2024

I was on the Agile Uprising podcast this past Sunday, discussing my most recent book. Some of what we discussed: That managers want agility but do not care about any agile methods or frameworks. While we might think “agile” is another project organization method—or lifecycle—it's not. See (and hear!):

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works?

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