The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Are we still on the right track? Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. When I say the strategy is “imposed,” I mean just that.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. The best roadmap is worthless if the people required to develop, market, and sell the product don’t buy into it.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. Unit testing is a type of software testing where individual units or software components are tested.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation. rating from 63 reviews on the App Store with over 500 users.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

They represent the customer’s voice and collaborate with product teams and stakeholders. The RICE framework evaluates features by weighing their Reach, Impact, and Confidence against the Effort required for development. Is it to reduce churn or drive positive reviews ?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. It’s a combination of IT software and LEGO blocks.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It’s the end of the Sprint and your team has just finished the Sprint Review. There was not as much to demonstrate to the business as the team had promised and the stakeholders that you invited are underwhelmed with the progress that has been made in the cycle. Picture: A genuine retrospective being held somewhere right now.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 30, 2024

Practice interview questions, discuss trends, share resources, and review each other’s resumes. Here is an exercise I did which really helped me. tip: stories work with stakeholders and recruiters too) E is for Evaluation What metrics will you use to measure your job search or career development progress? Want some help?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. Getting a replica environment up and running is usually simple on the cloud provided you have the right IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools set up.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We liken Setapp to Netflix for Mac software: the user pays a monthly subscription and receives access to a suite of curated Mac apps. Problems with Customer Development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. It seems pretty obvious that designers and product teams have different ways of thinking, but have you ever wondered why?

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Moreover, we ought to expect uncertainty to be increasing due to the hyper growth of digital assets. And note that this applies to any project, software or not. Agile and The Intuition Gap Iteration via smaller steps allows workers to exercise better intuitive judgment about their work. This is a common confusion.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

And what about the product team?? They were using the same manufacturing techniques that Henry Ford created at the beginning of the 20th century: waterfall “assembly line” development cycles packaged up onto physical disks. And the marketing team? Yes, they sell exercise equipment, but what they really sell is an experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. Meeting your team.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. Moreover, they boost employee engagement and nurture strong team collaboration. Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. In 1980, Mr. Levitt published his article through the Harvard Business Review – also available for sale as an eDoc through Amazon. Whole Product Game Background.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been on a sort of health kick for a few years: I quit smoking, I started walking to get low impact exercise, and so on. I had been taking 2 Aleve each day (1 morning, 1 evening) because I had been developing arthritis in my hands. My code was otherwise perfect (of course!).

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

That’s why we recently launched Product Tours , a dead-simple onboarding tool featuring a code-free tour builder, error notifications and quick-start templates. As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. Patrick: Exactly, it’s a huge tension.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world. But first, let’s review what tailoring your resume implies. They are in fact responsible for developing, designing and marketing a product. This is exactly what you do to avoid the following mistake.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

This acronym popped up a while back in Organization Development circles and when I heard it the first time I thought… uh yeah, that’s all high-tech. Extreme ownership (highly applicable) Summary Leaders are ultimately responsible for the failure or success of the team, and need to take full responsibility. Usability is bad.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

You’ve got backlogs to prioritize, design meetings to facilitate, Scrum meetings to run, and velocity charts to review. In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. This is natural.

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 3, 2016

This student is now a VP of product, and kicked off a conversation with me about best practices for establishing a workflow for product managers to collaborate with professional services teams to improve the product. From the product team’s perspective, going fishing was looking for needles in a haystack. Just Ingest.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. 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 cross-functional?—?be

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