The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. The control group is used as the standard or benchmark to which comparisons are made. The reason is simple.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I think one of the first challenges that new product leaders face is understanding exactly the division of labor between themselves and their team members. While you are largely given sound advice to focus on driving results through your team, it doesn't mean that when done right you are shirking all individual responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Scribe Product Owner A scribe is like a really poor waiter in a restaurant. A scribe just takes your order regardless, of whether it’s a good or a bad idea, they don’t add any value. A coping strategy is if you are a proxy or a scribe or even a business representative, become a developer on the team.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges. What it really comes down to, however, is delegation.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges. 3rd party mobile SDKs are common. Time to market.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Customer success teams don’t have time to waste. Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 New tools must show their value fast. 2 – The best customer success software will be no-code.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2020

What then are the implications of ML products for team structure, focus, and hiring? Whether the data is good or bad, once interventions are made a counterfactual problem arises. Even products which set out to augment existing teams will change how they work, and change is hard. Team Structure. Data Quality.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. A gap analysis is the comparison of actual performance with potential or desired performance – the current state vs. the desired future state. Strengths/Weaknesses). Gap analysis.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Bad turnover. Team learning logs. Measure for a Purpose. Example Measures. Innovation.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Poor onboarding may actually drive users away from activation and adoption. Pendo comes out stronger than WalkMe for developing SaaS onboarding experiences and product analytics thanks largely to its more robust user segmentation tools. User journey showing the “Activation” stage. But the opposite is also true.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. Equally futile by comparison to the lack of C-level support is a bottom-up approach by hacking the existing culture.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Bad turnover. Team learning logs. Measure for a Purpose. Example Measures. Innovation.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

JavaScript frameworks made the life of the developers much easier thanks to the ease of building powerful and feature-rich apps that can take be versatile in look and feel across all platforms. Naturally, both frameworks deserve comparison with their pros and cons. Let’s begin our comparison with the most elementary question.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Often, it is a sign of a lack of trust in the team’s capability.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. “Always Be Closing!”

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

Without it, you’d find yourself implementing features for the wrong customers, distorting your value proposition, and leading your customer support (CS) team to burnout from dealing with bad-fit users. 75% of companies will break up with poor-fit customers, according to Gartner. Let’s go over the concepts.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

And if you’re here to find the best project management tool available, I have some bad news for you. Requirements differ from company to company, from team to team, and even from person to person. Jira is the best-selling software development tool from Atlassian. Trello for development and design teams?

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2016

But what I've found surprising is that these learnings haven't been readily applied to the development process and they definitely should be. From the earliest stages of a startup, the R&D team should be designed in such a way to maximize learning for improving the R&D process itself. What exactly do I mean by this?

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. 5-Second summary. What is psychological safety?

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. Here’s my gross simplification.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

During the webinar, you can engage with Team Apptentive by chatting along, I hope you do that. The team will let you know if you are the winner, and we’ll connect with you to get your information so we can send you a prize. OK, so there are a couple of answers here, I’ll let the team decide. So make sure you do that.

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svpg

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

One of my all-time favorite quotes in our industry comes by way of the legendary VC, John Doerr , where he argues that "we need teams of missionaries, not teams of mercenaries.” Teams of missionaries are engaged, motivated, have a deep understanding of the business context, and tangible empathy for the customer.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A robust design system should not only streamline design and development processes but also ensure scalability as the organization grows, adapts to new platforms, and handles diverse product requirements. A high adoption rate means teams trust the system and find it useful. How to measure Number of projects using the design system.

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Ask Benny

MAY 1, 2019

While I was still preparing the lecture, I heard a similar comparison in a Product X conference I attended. Newborn products have their own tantrums, which require a lot of compassion to them and to the development team that takes care of them. They know by instinct where are your weak points. Love your Product.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. To assign meaning to whether the numbers are good or bad, context is crucial.

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Indicative

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Every team — from product to marketing, and IT to engineering — is generating data. It empowers each team across the organization to make data-driven decisions, with access to reporting and ad hoc analysis. . It empowers each team across the organization to make data-driven decisions, with access to reporting and ad hoc analysis. .

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

Unifies customer data in one platform that is embedded in all the teams who need a deeper understanding of the customer to meet or exceed their KPIs. As new AI tech is developed, we incorporate it when and where it’s most useful, continuing to build on what we’ve already done. What can Alchemer Pulse do for your team?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

She is a strategy execution specialist, scaleup mentor, and co-founder of FutureBuilders Group, a network of Organisational Development specialists.  Not bad Lisa. Clayton Christensen spoke about creating a separate business unit for new product development and innovation because of the culture.  Not bad Lisa.

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UserVoice

MARCH 12, 2018

More definitely means more work, and sometimes more can actually be a bad thing, so let’s break this down. Another common driver for adding more features that aren’t part of your core value proposition is the existential threat of competitors who can check more boxes on a side-by-side comparison. Why are you building more features?

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Tyner Blain

JULY 9, 2013

The fun thing about relative terms is that you have to do a comparison. Kenneth Grant explores this question as a process comparison , and identifies it as a poorly formed question because comparing agile and waterfall is comparing apples and oranges. If I have them developing with waterfall, I will spend $X for the year.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Product comparison example. Conduct a SWOT analysis Perform a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis for each competitor. Identify their internal strengths and weaknesses, such as product quality, customer support , or market reputation. Create a competitive analysis report template.

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Split

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For developers, that requires constant pivots, faster response times, and a graceful recovery from failure. Still, against the enormous pressure to continually improve, the best software teams deliver the goods safely and on time. As it turns out, there’s an important set of metrics all software teams should use as their benchmark.

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