Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 30, 2020

About Lean UX v Agile. * Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude , listen to learn: * How to be forever employable. *

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. During Definition you want to focus on moving past the discovery concepts, making detailed choices (about tech, design and requirements) and obtaining enough clarity to start developing solutions.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2020

Diversity in Tech. BDD vs TDD vs ATDD feature. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Building quality products. Getting your team to work together.

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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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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The world of consulting is often associated with truckloads of jargon. Similarly, the world of technology is no stranger to its own stream of techspeak. Today, let’s simplify one such concept – digital transformation consulting. What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Is Digital Transformation Consulting?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on.

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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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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

You create another backlog of “technical debt” to address later. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). Because every person started their own story, they had to wait for each other for code review. They called this undone work “technical debt.” No More Agile Death Marches.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. Any agile practitioner may recognize these as poor practices and it is surprising how easily a team can succumb when operating in a high pressure, reactive environment. Long standups.

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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. As a result, our backlog decreased by 50%.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

It goes well beyond analytics, frameworks, and agile. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Using feedback effectively. Different product frameworks.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent. Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Developing a successful digital product requires more than technical knowledge. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. Assume that the team members want to do their best. Be honest and open.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. BBC Interviewee interrupted by his children on air.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. It’s not just about adopting the latest gadgets, but about using technology to drive meaningful change and achieve specific business goals. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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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? If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility. However, many people wanted “the recipe” for agility.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. I once ran an infrastructure platform that needed six to nine months of paying down technical debt, and let me tell you: seeing those goals get crossed off, one at a time, was what kept us going during the dark days.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example. Ask your ScrumMaster or agile coach to help you with this.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. I first got started in SEO, I think at around 16 years old.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made. Over those 10 years, the technical teams created more robust testing and deployment scripts.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

I like to consider the future not in design or architecture, but in technical excellence. If not, the team becomes hostage to the technical debt. We call it technical debt. Technical excellence in a previous version allows us to move faster on a later release. I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Decision-making had become nearly impossible because no one saw the bigger picture , and cross-functional projects were more about navigating through outdated technology than delivering value. Tech organizations are complex by nature, and you will always need to make some trade-offs. Moreover, a perfect answer almost never exists.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I know that Hope and I hear a lot from the teams that we work with that most product people are really eager and they’re really diligent. ” There’s this tenet from the Agile Manifesto that’s really important, which is that each team owns the way they work and they’re constantly iterating on it to make it better.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

But building good enterprise systems is prone to failure, as author and product consultant Sam McAfee has recently pointed out. They just need to ensure that the KPIs they co-own improve; and their progress is reviewed each quarter. Bridge the Gap Between “Tech” and “Business”. This was a big challenge for us.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures Last week, we addressed basic practices and tools of remote agile with distributed teams. LS for Scrum More than a year ago, my Berlin Hands-on Agile meetup started exploring the possibilities to use Liberating Structures specifically in the context of Scrum.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

We can use TDD, BDD, ATDD and get feedback before we write code. I happen to like David Bernstein's book, Beyond Legacy Code (Amazon) and on the Prags , as a way to integrate reasonable technical practices into your work now. When they realized they had a problem with this checkin, they started to write tests and do a code review.

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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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. out of 5 stars.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). I used the image from Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation as a way to think about the feedback loop realities in a serial approach.). (I I recommended various ideas with “testing” in their names (TDD, BDD, ATDD). Shorten Feedback Loops.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

There were so many seniors to help us juniors learn how to be an employee and how to be a good consultant. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe. I actually started out consulting, doing discovery work for companies. That’s actually the thing. Congratulations!

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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