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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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impossible because no one saw the bigger picture , and cross-functional projects were more about navigating through outdated technology than delivering value.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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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode.

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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. It's time for performance reviews. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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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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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

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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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. It was more a requirement to use the fancy word agile , than a real transformation program.

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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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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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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

(PRWEB) JUNE 01, 2020 – Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Security, a packaged product that helps organizations identify and address threats to their intellectual property and private information.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Troubleshooting Agile – Jeffery Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel’s episode of The Product Experience. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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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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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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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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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Most of the requirements-based defect escapes were due to changed requirements. The detailed design and code reviews were almost a waste of time. Finally, they moved to an incremental lifecycle and then to an iterative and incremental but not agile lifecycle.

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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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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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UX Studio: Product Management

MAY 13, 2024

Our experiences range from large tech firms to startups, each partnership has carried unique challenges and experiences. For instance, if your designers are struggling to maintain a consistent design system due to a heavy design backlog, hiring a design system expert could be beneficial.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! That means integrating code review and testing as part of the team's collaboration. Read See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 1: Inside the Team for a value stream map where the team separates code review from their flow of work.) Tools might help us.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2024

" Likewise 'agile' has been watered down and bastardized and stretched past its limits.    Originally, small-a-agile stood for ongoing incremental process improvements and thoughtful retrospection and team-level empowerment.  ”  Then into shorthand for “just get v1.0

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  Which makes us want to sit them down for yet another 2-hour lecture on limited capacity, agile, the need for validation, technical debt, architecture, or the physics of building software.   Each group will naturally put its own list of technical improvements ahead of the other groups. 

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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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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

Then I moved on to telecom, military simulation software, cloud SaaS, consulting and finally healthcare. Adam : I think people get too caught up in the fact that a test strategy does not belong in Agile because we want to “limit documentation.” You must have a review session to discuss the points of the strategy document.

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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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