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Sprint Planning Tips for Product Owners

Roman Pichler

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. Software development is an exciting but demanding profession. Unforeseen things can happen in software development including people falling ill and a server going down. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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Serve Fewer Markets. Win More Deals.

bpma ProductHub

Let’s review a couple of scenarios: Scenario one – company has an existing product portfolio. The sales team is providing feedback and advising that the product is missing features preventing them from penetrating market A, and if only they had those features, they could be very successful selling. Just remember to focus.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

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). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Tech costs.

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Better Product Internationalization With Localization Best Practices

The Product Coalition

For example, the code for certain areas of text doesn’t take into consideration the space needed for some languages, meaning more working hours must to go into fixing this. The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand. Translatable texts?—?usually

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. 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’d made great code. Similar, right?

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology.