Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. Here’s the honest truth.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management. So why is the role important?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!). As one of the earliest Agile product managers, Jeff Patton has seen the “brand” of Agile degrade – even so far as speakers eliciting spontaneous applause by saying “I hate Agile.”

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Workshop Presenters. Product Leadership. Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 24, 2020

What is interesting is that our guest is now offering career advice after becoming known as the Agile Product guy who helps organizations build better products. You may know him from his past books, including Lean UX, Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking, and Sense & Respond. 11:33] Tell your story. Share your expertise. 21:16] Teach.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Leadership is frequently involved in lower-level discussions or asks for ad-hoc reports. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Collaborative Product Backlog Workshop.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Consider sharing the input beforehand when you run a strategy workshop so that people can prepare for the meeting. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. 1 Set an Objective.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. Same with workshops or consulting. In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. Work to increase collaboration and relationships across the organization.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory. What do mean?”

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2020

Mind the Product has launched a new training workshop for product leaders on mapping. I meet a lot of product people – product managers, product owners, agile coaches, scrum masters, business analysts, project managers – and I’ve learned that there are a couple of constants, whatever the title or role.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He is also the co-founder of Product Culture—one of his customers said about Bruce, “Coach, trusted advisor, organizational therapist—like me, you’ll probably hire Bruce because of his experience in product management or his skills as an Agile coach.” ” What a great quote. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Also, there’s nothing wrong with the agile manifesto of course. Because thinking and acting agile and lean is mainly a mindset and nothing you implement like a new time booking system. Workshops for the sake of workshops on an operative level are not the big thing. So agile and lean are two major keys.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You manage the stakeholders, for example, by inviting them to roadmapping workshops and sprint review meetings or by having regular one-on-ones with them. 3] In an agile, Scrum-based process, the project management work is collaboratively performed by the Scrum product owner and the development team with the latter taking on most of the work.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

However, as Mary Baird’s inspiring story shows, a successful pivot from nonprofit leadership to product management is not only possible but also incredibly rewarding. However, Mary’s experience in nonprofit leadership provided her with a unique set of transferable skills that would prove invaluable in her new role.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

An Agile transformation is a major organizational shift requiring senior leadership to be deeply engaged. In the last few years, we have seen an influx of new workshops and coaching designed to support leaders during the initial transformation push and beyond. Agile transformations can be complex and time-consuming.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

He says the idea of unlearning is beginning to take hold in the region and Asian business leaders are starting to understand that they may have to adapt their leadership: “There’s strong interest in how they can start to do that.”. To this end, he’s just run his first Unlearn workshop in virtual reality. “I Design and Product Thinking.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

A great way to co-develop the product strategy and roadmap—as well as to review and update the plans—is to bring people together through collaborative workshops. This is especially helpful when the group is new to collaborative decision-making and when the workshops take place online.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 5, 2019

Leadership Agility – Agile Leadership Fest 2019 from Agile Velocity. In this workshop at Agile Leadership Fest, David Hawks discussed key mindset shifts leaders need to make to thrive in this new world. Key Takeaways from “Leadership Agility”.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

3] Figure 2: Product Team with Stakeholders The stakeholders in Figure 2 share their expertise and contribute to product decisions in collaborative workshops, and they work with the other members to achieve product success. The role might be filled by a product coach, Scrum Master , or agile coach. [5]

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Will you follow Porter’s path for differentiation or cost leadership? Defining the North Star: A Full-day Workshop. The leadership teams gather before each quarter ends to review the company vision and revise the strategy. Product Strategy in an Agile World Marty Cagan. How will you win? Our Three Stepped-Process.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Hope also does some leadership coaching with her own company, Fearless Product. They’ll come to a workshop or they’ll do somebody else’s training and they want everybody in the company to work the same way. This is an extension again of that Agile mindset. And that’s not a bad thing.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When we first think about UX work, we think about things like commuting, going to work, writing on whiteboards, writing Post-it notes, sprints, workshops. “We’re having yet another existential crisis about who we are and what we do” Meanwhile, in company leadership meetings everywhere, this is what’s going on.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I recently attended an excellent leadership programme, which led me to reflect more deeply on what makes a stand out leader. Of course, a large part of leadership is about designing good domain strategy & operating models etc, but this article focuses on the more emotive, people elements. Recognition for what they do.

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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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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2018

Waterfall vs Agile. So even the age old (at least in internet time) debate on agile vs waterfall often misses the point. I recently ran a workshop for a team focused on proto-personas (where the team brainstorms personas based on their intuition, not hard data). And I’m not even talking about politics. Remote vs Colocated.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2024

As a product management veteran with over 20 years of leadership experience, I’ve worked with numerous organizations looking to transform their approach to building and delivering products. They should share this narrative widely and consistently, using a variety of channels and formats to reach different audiences.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cranking user stories through the agile factory. It sets the product up for long-term success and market leadership in chosen verticals without sacrificing short-term revenue. For those that have accepted some version of agile (46 at last count) as their product management model, it puts agile development into proper perspective.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 1, 2016

1) Purposeful Leadership, (2) Compelling Brand Values, (3) Employee Engagement, and (4) Customer Connectedness. As I just completed an innovation workshop for a company, this article made me laugh a bit. create a path to executive leadership. Check out how at [link]. Read about each at [link]. 1) Microsoft Excel. (2)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2019

I just finished a series for my Pragmatic Manager newsletter about Agile Transformation Secrets: Part 1: Manage for Change. I wrote this series because I find that many people get a little confused about an agile transformation. They think an agile approach will work because they can predict and commit better. Please join us.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns?—?the

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

While common in Agile, it can be applied to any consensus-building situation. An everyday use case is during whiteboarding sessions or workshops. I’ll share three methods you can utilize to receive tangible feedback quickly! Fist of Five works by asking team members to raise their hands and show between 1 to 5 fingers.

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