Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

Agile is a software development methodology. Agile development is a methodology for building software, and it’s a good one! There’s one part of product management that’s been lost with agile development – longer-term value-based plans that map to customer strategies, goals and priorities. The Irony of Agile Development.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. The Brave New Agile World.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 22, 2018

By Ellen Gottesdiener – Product Roadmaps Are Necessary for Product Success A product roadmap visually depicts how your product will evolve over time to realize your product vision and achieve continual value for your customers and business. (I

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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. But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work.

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Agile Velocity

JULY 31, 2024

Hiring processes should be clearly laid out by the managers, including a culture interview, and every new hire should know what the vision, goals, and values of the company are as they come onboard. Resources: [link] [link] [link] The post Agile HR: Managing Managers appeared first on Agile Velocity.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Guiding the development team and stakeholders towards product success requires leadership at three levels: vision, strategy, and tactics, as illustrated in following picture. Agile Process Constraints. Last but not least, most digital products are developed using an agile development framework like Scrum or Kanban.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Guiding the development team and stakeholders towards product success requires leadership at three levels: vision, strategy, and tactics, as illustrated in following picture. Agile Process Constraints. Last but not least, most digital products are developed using an agile development framework like Scrum or Kanban.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. Let’s take a look at them.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

Agile is a software development methodology. Agile development is a methodology for building software, and it’s a good one! There’s one part of product management that’s been lost with agile development – longer-term value-based plans that map to customer strategies, goals and priorities. The Irony of Agile Development.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”. In the agile scaling framework LeSS, the role is referred to as “ Area Product Owner “ A component owner owns an architecture building block like a user-interface layer or a payment service.

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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

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context. Use a product vision ; a product strategy with user needs and business goals; and a product roadmap with product goals (aka. Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. In figure 1, the vision is the basis for choosing the user and business goals, and the latter create the context for determining the right product goal. It does not intend to prescribe how the practices it offers should be applied.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

To achieve that level of confidence and to build products in that space we as product managers have to focus on a few key principals before we plan on getting the next thing in the marketplace.The four major principals we generally go by are Vision, Strategy, Team and Rapid learning. Product Takeoff by Navjot Singh, Kamal Manglani.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

What you don’t need to worry about is defining the product vision, creating the strategic roadmap, determining market need and financial viability, etc. The Market-Facing Perspective The practice director is responsible for establishing the vision and strategic direction for the products that support their customer functions.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Other companies that are well-versed in role definition usually need help in the Product Strategy and Product Operations department as they scale.The Product Strategy category is a frequently weak area - sometimes not due to the quality of the vision and strategy, but to the way it's deployed.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

What is agile release planning? TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. What are its best practices?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Good teams have a compelling​ product vision that they pursue with a missionary‐like passion. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. As the person in charge of the product, you should lead the discovery and development effort.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Q: What’s your best tip for staying agile when implementing changes to your mobile digital transformation approach? I love the quote, ‘Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.’ How can teams respond quickly to what they learn?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

Finally, capture your insights and describe the product’s current strategy: the people it serves, the value it creates for the users and business, and its key features, for instance, by using my Product Vision Board. Before you proceed, carefully investigate your board for any major risks and assumptions.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2019

Establishing agile and product culture is critical to us becoming a modern organisation that continuously improves. Supporting their development, helping them to think and act as agile and product champions. I also defined a vision: Agile product management culture is the norm and is adding measurable value to Parkinson’s UK.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2022

I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. Part of his vision was “being agile”. However, I had a nagging question in the back of my mind: “What does he mean by agile?” The project launched to realize his vision and his team went to work diligently.

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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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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” What is Sustainable Pace? With the right goals in place, you are able to assess if you should add a new feature, for example.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs. B2C, Agile vs. Waterfall). Building the Foundation for Product Vision This activity serves as a bridge between problem validation and product vision development.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. So this discipline is not new, but it is evolving rapidly as more companies start shifting into software organizations and start structuring themselves around products. It introduced the concept of a Product Owner. You should never be doing all this work at once.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Agile, discovery, experimentation have all become embedded in what we do. I have even met product teams who define their mission as being “exemplary at agile” in their organisation. Agile is not a strategy. That’s why you have to start with vision and strategy, they give you purpose and direction. Emotional.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. The y-axis represents "ability to deliver," while the x-axis represents "completeness of vision." Here are a few of my favorites: Stack ranking.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers.

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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. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? and act appropriately in due course.

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Product Management University

MARCH 16, 2023

This approach is typically utilized by product management teams that practice some version of the Agile methodology. Make sure they support your overall product vision and strategy , and get stakeholders in alignment with your plan. What is in a Product Backlog?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

Additionally, the product owner must have: A deep understanding of agile methodologies in practice. Photo by airfocus on Unsplash While the product owner role is explicitly defined and included in Scrum, that does not mean it cannot exist following other agile frameworks, just that it is easiest to define when aligned to Scrum.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Agile UX is a design methodology based on the principles of Agile software development. Agile is a proven software development approach that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration and efficiency. Agile UX adopts the same values, reframed in the context of digital design projects. What is the Agile UX Process?

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