Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. The shorter the feedback loop, the faster and more often we can learn. See the post about Double-Loop Learning.)

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. Planning Before beginning with the planning — also called the feasibility stage, you should understand your product, target users’ needs, customers’ demands, and of course SDLC. Good product and customer satisfaction come through from a great analysis phase.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this guide, we’ll delve into the core responsibilities, salary insights, essential skills, and more, providing you with the knowledge and tools you need to excel as a product coordinator. Manage Customer Feedback : Gather and incorporate feedback from users to refine the product.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. See Customers, Internal Delivery, And Trust for a recent post about demos and trust.) See TBM 8/52: The Problem With “Internal Customers ”. That's why the duration of the internal feedback loops is so important.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. The shorter the feedback loops, the easier it is to use what we finished to make a new decision about the next bit of work at all levels.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps. More on that later in this post.).

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

How can you prevent an overstuffed backlog, roadmap, or all those great ideas from interrupting your team from finishing its work? You have several options: Separate the customer-facing problems from all the other ideas. Instead of backlog or roadmap, start to call these ideas “options.” But what about the future?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Their goals are always stated in terms of delivering products and features (output), and never in terms of expected business and customer outcomes. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall? users, market and business, fades into the background.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

It helps organizations focus on the Determining which features to include in a product roadmap can be challenging with constantly evolving customer needs and several opportunities chasing scarce resources. They represent the customer’s voice and collaborate with product teams and stakeholders.

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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? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Gainsight

JUNE 21, 2022

When it comes to creating product roadmaps, product leaders face a plethora of challenges. . Not only can it be difficult to figure out which features to prioritize, but product leaders can also struggle with engineering dependencies, executive demands, and the need to operate with agility in a market that moves faster every day.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider. The First Agile transformation OKR – “Leader Engagement”.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I expect most people reading this now would say “we are agile”. The nasty truth is that very few companies are agile, it is a big illusion, and it is stalling your company and your growth. Companies who are agile stand out above the others with innovation and market share. We need a serious talk about The Agile Illusion.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2021

Are you looking for customer engagement solutions that can give you an upper hand in creating stronger customer relationships? It can be quite confusing if you don’t know what tactics will improve customer engagement in your product. Higher customer retention. Increased customer lifetime value ( LTV ). Lower churn.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Here are five best practices that will get you there: Merge product marketing strategies with customer insights : Use tools to collect user feedback and incorporate it into marketing plans. Understand customers greatly : You can use various CRM tools to understand your customers better.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development. This inertia stems from misaligned stakeholders and lack of visibility into release interdependencies.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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DISQO

JANUARY 13, 2020

Name any business function, and there’s a near-guarantee it’s on a quest to be more agile. The promise often repeated is simple, if not obvious at this point: agile is synonymous with working faster and smarter when the stakes are high, the path is uncertain, or the cost of a wrong decision too steep.

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DISQO

JANUARY 13, 2020

Name any business function, and there’s a near-guarantee it’s on a quest to be more agile. The promise often repeated is simple, if not obvious at this point: agile is synonymous with working faster and smarter when the stakes are high, the path is uncertain, or the cost of a wrong decision too steep.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. It is built on the principles of a business that focuses on delivering value to the customer.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback. In-app surveys , usability and prototype testing , or user interviews and focus groups can help you understand your customers’ requirements. If your customer feedback shows your product is very different from what they need, don’t wait and pivot.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 27, 2019

When you’re continually shipping code, how do you plan, build, and communicate your roadmap? In this post we’ll outline the basics of continuous delivery, what it means to you as a product manager, and how to adapt your roadmapping process to best work in a continuous delivery environment. Continuous Delivery 101.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 24, 2023

Imagine a team that aligns your product strategy with your business goals, fosters communication between different teams, and sifts through data to provide valuable insights. This includes strategic planning, collaboration between teams, handling customer feedback, analyzing data, and managing product launches.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. Another way to structure teams is by customer journey stage , where a different team is responsible for one stage, like adoption. What is a product team structure?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. Test everything!

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Agile isn’t particularly technical, but it represents the methodology and processes that most product development organizations now rely on. If you’re not comfortable and conversant with Agile concepts and language, you’ll struggle in your interactions with the team. First, it delivers value to customers faster and more often.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The upsides of product management include the fact that every day is different, you get to work with technology, it sets you up to be an empathetic leader and you get to see customers use what you created.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

These two questions form the basis of any good product roadmap. Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. The ability to prepare a great roadmap is one of the must have skills for any Product Manager. Roadmap Guidelines.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. Assumptions —Every idea needs to be validated with actual paying customers.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency. Long sprints or sprints defined by scope rather than timeline.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2019

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? Could a team reduce the feedback loop durations? Iterative, Incremental, and Agile Approaches Reduce the Feedback Loop Durations.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Feedback collection (Typeform, Feedier). User testing (UserTesting, Userfeel). Feedback management (Canny, Airfocus, ProdPad). Roadmapping (Productplan, Casual, Roadmunk). You can customize your onboarding flows, analyze user behavior, and use in-app messaging to drive engagement.

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