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. Allocate time regularly- The only way to get enough ideas to run a high velocity testing system is to set aside time for it. How to prioritize the ideas for maximum business value?

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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. We were Agile, with daily standups, two week sprints and detailed estimations. We were doing Agile. Was the problem Agile? A production release was a distant vision. How did I get here?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When I was Head of Product at eBay, one of my primary responsibilities was to lead and build eBay’s new catalog system. We spent months defining how the new catalog system should work. I’ll just say that it was a totally different concept than the existing system’s one. That’s just one of the challenges we had.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Image by Cody Cai Design system governance models help organizations manage and maintain design systems across teams and products. There are three popular models —  Solitary , Centralized , and Federated  — each offer different approaches to how design systems are governed within an organization. Image by Nathan Curtis.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. It's time for performance reviews. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. The disconnect is not one piece—it's an entire system. What do we do?

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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Split

JULY 13, 2023

Amid this incessant search for perfection, two paradigms have become prominent: Test-driven development (TDD) and feature flag-driven development (FFDD). Test-driven development (TDD), a software development approach in which tests are written before the code, is akin to building a safety net before performing a daring tightrope act.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. This might be done by using story points and Planning Poker, as explained in Mike Cohn’s book Agile Estimating and Planning. Don’t forget to involve the development team in this exercise.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2020

TL; DR: Lipstick Agile?—?Happiness Have you noticed how many people in the agile field are unhappy with their work situation? A situation where an organization already struggles doing agile, not to mention ‘becoming agile?’ This is what I call lipstick Agile. Happiness in the Trenches? Problem must be visible!”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . How does work flow through the team/system? . How to design a kanban system that allows us to visualize and manage the work? Design kanban systems .

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

One project I worked on was the installation of telephone billing systems. A telephone billing system is a product that a telephone company uses to send you those awful monthly telephone bills. The telephone company used the telephone billing system to generate invoices to get revenue.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

It provides the speed and efficiency mobile apps require for constantly changing products while maintaining the security and integrity of existing systems. Ratings and reviews: One of the few places customers give feedback is in the app stores in the form of ratings and reviews.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . For NASA that is the Space Launch Systems (SLS), developed over the past 11 years and set to launch on August 29, 2022. For NASA that is the Space Launch Systems (SLS), developed over the past 11 years and set to launch on August 29, 2022. Is NASA Being Smart or Playing it Safe?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

My student Eric Ries became the first adopter of Customer Development and recognized that in the 21st century, people were starting to adopt Agile Engineering, where you build products incrementally and iteratively. Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and the Business Model Canvas became the Lean Startup. In the 21st century,

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

Some of my Modern Management Made Easy technical reviewers wonder. Those people suffered from several problems—most of which was based on the system of rewards in the organization (part of the context): Because of their power, they were “on the hook” to deliver something we could not deliver. I would have disagreed.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

An AI system, properly implemented, doesn’t have these same motivationsit simply reports what it finds in the data. This discovery challenged a common assumption that machines would struggle with the emotional aspects of customer research due to their lack of human empathy.

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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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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. . Balancing the Agile Enterprise . that allow us to respond to change.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues. By asking, What systemic issues are contributing to this problem? In one of our strategy sessions with senior executives, I posed a pivotal question: Are we addressing the real bottlenecks?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It provides the speed and efficiency mobile apps require for constantly changing products while maintaining the security and integrity of existing systems. Ratings and reviews: One of the few places customers give feedback is in the app stores in the form of ratings and reviews. We all know and love Slack.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Be extremely mindful and diligent in understanding the security of companies you are outsourcing to. This level of speed and agility is crucial to our success and we are unapologetic and unwavering in this belief. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups. In theory, this is undifferentiated heavy lifting.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). Because every person started their own story, they had to wait for each other for code review. The team decided to attack the build and deploy systems and see what they could automate. They spent another five hours of mobbing on those systems. No More Agile Death Marches.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Use Lean Startup practices and be as Agile as you need to be in each learning phase—the customer value preposition, the business model, and the model to scale. At the end of each stage, have a deliverable that’s reviewable so people can decide to proceed or not. Apply the whole system, not just a single piece.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

” The team got into iterative development or Agile Stage Gate, and it worked very well. [17:46] When you do a portfolio review and re-rank all the projects, you find out that a few of them that look shiny and bright at the beginning are not quite so shiny and bright over time. Have a good data system.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2021

See the Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics series.) In Development (I include TDD other development thinking here. A possible “Dev-Done” column so you understand when system test can start for a given item. In System Test. Are you frustrated with your board?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems. The CPO put together a product board, which met on a regular basis to review the major items coming in. For example, in the past you couldn’t change the operating system on a computer, but now you can.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

One company I worked with, for example, assigned developers who had worked on enterprise systems using an ancient programming language to develop a brand-new, embedded product with the latest technologies. My experience suggests that a single product person is usually not able to work with more than three agile development teams.

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