The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While I’d like to encourage you to involve development team members and key stakeholders in the visioning, strategising, and roadmapping work, you should lead these activities with the aim to maximise the value your product creates. Lead the Product. That’s the job of the development team.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Relentless execution will ultimately determine whether you'll be able to make your product vision a reality. While many product managers are familiar with agile methodologies for managing a development team, I don't believe it provides a full view of how a product manager should be effectively managing their overall product process.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. From Product Vision to User Stories to Roadmap Tools In my experience, product roadmaps work best as an extension to the Product Backlog. Before you try to come up with a product roadmap, fix the vision problem first. Agile Experiments ??

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. Your roadmap needs to tell a story of how you’re going to reach your product vision. But the training was intense! Managing up.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

A Remote Sprint Planning with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives based on Liberating Structures.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. The Product Owner should be the #1 person to go-to for the team if any vision or strategy questions come up. is a continuous exercise. That should be a continuous exercise. How do you learn about new ideas and requirements?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. This depends on what delivery framework you use, Agile or Waterfall or Mixed.) There are many ways to scope out product features but a common practice agile teams use to break down work is Feature Mapping.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2018

Create Relationships and a Shared Vision. It’s a useful exercise to sit down and work out where all your big influencers are on the grief curve. However, for these tools to function, you have to take account and develop the human side of things too. Accept That Everyone is Somewhere on the Grief Curve.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This comes from the Agile Manifesto , reducing our batch sizes. They take all the opportunities they’re hearing from their interviews and they do an affinity mapping exercise where they group similar opportunities together. We have, I think in Agile, they talk about the three-legged stool or the three amigos.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2020

Here are a few thoughts for how product managers – especially those in an agile development environment – can embrace uncertainty and live with the inevitable discomfort. There’s an expectation of product managers to spell out the vision for our products and what the product looks like one or two years down the road.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. The messier the code and the less modular the architecture is, the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to change your product.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For today’s post, we sat down with Chris Hockley , an agile delivery manager and lean agile coach at SuperAwesome. Chris would start with one of the product KPIs that a team was actively looking to improve and set it as the outcome for the exercise. Did you miss the first post in this series? Business risk.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Download ’71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Hiring Agile Imposters’ 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Scrum is not a methodology but a framework. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. The initial vision was to. This is what we did.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: No comments.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap. Paul: No comments.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2019

There’s a huge difference between agile development and what I see as a shipping culture. Agile Agile development is about short, iterative and incremental development cycles. Companies can work in sprints, invest time and money on agile tools, scrum masters, ceremonies, and still ship new product releases once a quarter.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s still no real replacement for real-time, dynamic discussions and exercises to foster stakeholder alignment. Berner, 12-year product management career included stints at Pivotal and Betterment, joining the software development consultancy specializing in Lean and Agile. The benefits of this exercise go far beyond alignment.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

We’re “agile” (mostly). We narrowed our focus to just nailing down our product vision statement. We focused on a North Star metric that is reflective of our vision. Throughout the discussions we utilized “silent brainstorming” and “note and vote” exercises to avoid the pitfalls of the first meeting.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

The over-focus on Agile rituals such as Standups, Sprint Planning and Retros has meant that we have forgotten the commercial aspects of our role. But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Best practices are fascinating thought exercises, but if they don’t affect change, that is all they are. Avoid agile-fall. The company gets to be better at making changes because the changes tie to a realistic vision. If they don’t see you as credible, your value decreases. Digital Transformation Blues.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. Can you take us back to the early days of Accelerate and what the original vision was?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

” I said, “Ironically enough, Exercise Science is a major, so I can,” so that’s where I chose my major. So if we can make it feel a little bit better and add a little bit more vision for what the potential could be, it helps it move along a lot better. While in college, I started my first business.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. The tool was initially used in Agile software delivery to set key business objectives and plan how to achieve them. What is impact mapping in agile?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn. High performing agile teams can move a story through design, development and implementation with awesome velocity, tool and process discipline. What is planned and shipped feels opaque and out of synch to the less agile parts of the organization.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Yes, they sell exercise equipment, but what they really sell is an experience. And they control every touchpoint of the consumer journey, from the purchase, to the exercise classes done with that bike. Imagine being a traditional exercise equipment manufacturer and competing with that. Speed and agility.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

In order to do this, you need teams who are familiar with methods like “agile “ , which facilitate collaborative teams and a quickfire approach to problem-solving. This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up. Day 4 is where you put in all the work.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

“I see creating conference programs or an editorial agenda for a line of books as definition exercises” It’s this personal desire to not put people in positions to fail. I see creating conference programs or an editorial agenda for a line of books as definition exercises. Why would we do it any other way?

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