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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. As the person in charge of the product, you depend on the work of the development team and you are, of course, affected by poor performance. What is Bad Performance?

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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You Can’t be Lean Unless You’re Agile

Mind the Product

I see so much talk and confusion over what’s Lean and what’s Agile. The two terms can get used interchangeably, so much so that in some places they’re blended into one term, simply Lean-Agile (thanks again, SAFe ??). The post You Can’t be Lean Unless You’re Agile appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development

The Product Coalition

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. Imagine you’re developing a new app for a client. Citations: Schwaber, K. Scrum guide. Sutherland, J.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! April 27, 2022 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm BST.

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Why we Need to Rethink Product Management in an Agile Practice

Mind the Product

Have you ever wondered why your Agile practice feels a bit uninspiring? Something that both fascinates and frustrates me is how the discussions about Agile have flipped from being embraced [.]. The post Why we Need to Rethink Product Management in an Agile Practice appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Agile Product Life Cycle-Practices & Tools

The Product Coalition

In the previous article, I discussed in detail about Agile Product Life Cycle and its different phases and outcomes that allow an organization to function end to end in an agile product life cycle. In image 1 I have listed some practices in sticky notes below each of the phases to drive the Agile product life cycle.

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

If so, it's time to look to no-code development. Join Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy, and learn how to leverage tech and drive agility with citizen development and the no-code movement. How to recognize emerging trends in tech today and leverage them to stay agile for a holistic business strategy.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Agile has been impeded by retention of Waterfall release planning practices and schedule pressure.

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The Importance of Having Strong Decision Agility in Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Emily Tate, Managing Director at Mind the Product

As product managers, making decisions is a key part of our roles. We are tasked with ensuring decisions are made across the entire spectrum, from the highly strategic (“Where is our product headed?”) to the very tactical (“Which bug should we fix first?”).

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Product Strategy Agility: How to Use Experiments and Options to Create Products Your Customers Love

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

. 📅June 25, 2024 at 12:30pm PT, 3:30pm ET, 8:30pm BST Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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How Product Teams Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Feature flags offer great value to developers, but they can benefit product teams equally as much. Product teams can use feature flags to continuously deliver a higher-quality product to their end users, all while saving time and speeding up development cycles. Using feature flags with experimentation to accelerate time-to-value.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

By tapping into the wealth of customer and application data, product professionals can identify underutilized features, prioritize improvements, and streamline development efforts in partnership with the development team.

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The New Frontier: A Guide to Monetizing AI Offerings

Speaker: Michael Mansard and Katherine Shealy

With the cost of developing AI capabilities growing, finding a flexible monetization strategy has become mission critical. 🔁 Agility in Monetization: Discover how to keep your monetization strategy flexible and scalable to adapt to the rapid pace of AI advancements.