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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.

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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.

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Maximizing Insights by Leveraging the Benefits of Integrating Market Research and User Research

The Product Coalition

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

Inefficient Decision-Making : Slow or unclear decision-making processes due to a lack of defined authority, product leadership skills, or excessive bureaucracy hinder progress and agility. Insufficient Customer Feedback Loops : Lack of regular and structured mechanisms to gather and incorporate customer feedback into product development.

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Roman Pichler

Nevertheless, the product owner is often regarded as a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog, detailing requirements, and interacting with the development team. The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software.

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. They’re entire identity seemingly hinged on having a team of developers.

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A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

Product discovery describes the activities required to determine if and why a product should be developed and offered. For example, generate revenue or meet a profit margin, reduce cost, or develop the brand? In the picture above, product discovery precedes product development. What is Product Discovery?