The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. Any agile practitioner may recognize these as poor practices and it is surprising how easily a team can succumb when operating in a high pressure, reactive environment. Long standups.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. I once witnessed a sprint review meeting degenerate into a shouting match.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? This includes discovering the right UX design and functionality and making the right technical decisions. Additionally, I recommend running weekly review sessions to understand the progress of the discovery work and adapt it if necessary. How might people use the product?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Early in her career, Francesca encountered this phrase alongside the common description of product management as sitting at the intersection of business, user experience, and technology. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

When you have one team learning Agile, another learning Lean, and yet another learning Design Thinking, how are you supposed to get to alignment? Jeff takes us through the basics of the three main frameworks – Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking – and then gives us a set of principles that can help us effectively meld them together.

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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. I’m not a technical Product Manager. We were doing Agile. Was the problem Agile? How did I get here?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2021

TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. A Sprint Review without stakeholders may create an unhealthy bubble for the Scrum Team due to the disconnect, thus resulting in lower effectiveness. despite the rigid flow from Sprint Review to Retrospective to Sprint Planning.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data. She has co-facilitated and led Agile training sessions for students in Master of Engineering in Silicon Valley.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. It is therefore worthwhile to measure the code quality and minimise technical debt.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question. Rightpoint.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

To answer this question, they employed a technology called supervised fine-tuning. This discovery challenged a common assumption that machines would struggle with the emotional aspects of customer research due to their lack of human empathy. The speed and efficiency of AI analysis makes it a highly agile tool for course correction.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

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. It can be used by product managers to develop products in a more agile and collaborative way. Citations: Schwaber, K.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Shift from fixed yearly planning to rolling quarterly reviews to allow flexibility in roadmap decisions. Translate technical details into user-friendly language using real-world analogies. Strategies for Maintaining Product Vision Without Losing Adaptability Use a structured prioritization framework (e.g.,

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. 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. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2020

Diversity in Tech. BDD vs TDD vs ATDD feature. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Building quality products. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints. One of the primary reasons for the launch of kiosk failure was due to the exclusion of the engineering team during product planning. Resource, technology and poor planning impact a product’s functionality.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2023

This article explores the concept of an agility healthcare system and provides solutions to overcome implementation challenges. Get to know about the term “agility healthcare” Agility healthcare is developed by agile which is a way to manage projects that many companies use.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. Software outsourcing services company states that there are two major development methodologies regarding waterfall and agile. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. During Definition you want to focus on moving past the discovery concepts, making detailed choices (about tech, design and requirements) and obtaining enough clarity to start developing solutions.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

Sample goals include acquiring new users, increasing conversion, reducing cost, and removing technical debt to future proof the product. But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. But in reality, unforeseen things do happen.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. In January of 2021, Quantum Metric secured its place as the first tech unicorn of the year with an above $1 billion valuation and a $200 million Series B funding round.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example. Additionally, schedule regular collaborative strategy reviews —at least once per quarter—and invite the key stakeholders and development team members to them.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2023

Agile antipatterns or scrum antipatterns are (poor) practices that are utilized to enhance a process. Nonetheless, they impede your efforts and slow your progress towards attaining Agile objectives, thereby achieving the opposite effect. List of destructive agile antipatterns and how to avoid them 1.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Due to stay-at-home orders enacted across the globe in response to COVID-19, the mobile channel has seen particularly extreme changes in how companies leverage it to support their broader business goals. Q: What’s your best tip for staying agile when implementing changes to your mobile digital transformation approach?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

In my view, he or she should have these main skills: manage the release process and roadmap prioritization, be able to suggest technical solutions during discussions with developers, and be knowledgeable in all the tools and terminology of the Agile process. In my situation, I was limited to lead effectively due to the physical gap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Signs your organization has missed the point of Agile and it’s become another buzz-word! Treating Agile as just a method not part of a mindset, or culture, is a common contradiction in orgs trying to become Agile organizations. Not grasping the Why of Agile is behind many failures to transform into an Agile organization.

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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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. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. But rather than pressing for answers, my tech lead simply sat back in his chair and shrugged. “Ah, Guest Post by: Stef Orzech (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Alex Berman]. I furrow my brow incredulously.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2021

We talked with agile consultant Liz Keogh about how to get this right, who estimates are for, her invaluable scale for estimating complexity, and how to pronounce the word Cynefin. Buy Chris Matts’ ‘Real Options at Agile 2009’ book here. * ‘What is Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)?’ Suggest them here.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . But SpaceX has shown impressive progress leveraging an Agile production methodology that could compete with and even replace NASA’s waterfall processes. . The NASA waterfall model includes System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review.

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