The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. Running a User Story Map workshop with your team will give you a comprehensive list of features prioritized by different releases ( you want to ocus on learning quickly ), and you will have common understanding among the different people involved.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used. But you should take an interest in software technology, and you should have a basic understanding of how your product is currently built.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. 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.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This aligns everyone and ensures that the various deliverables and outputs—for instance, the source code, the end-user documentation, the marketing collateral, and the training materials—fit together. This is best done by having regular, collaborative strategy workshops as well as attending sprint review meetings.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Establishing Expectations Francesca recommended conducting expectation workshops, particularly during key organizational transitions. These workshops should address: Expectation Area Key Questions to Address Why It Matters Role Definition What specific responsibilities fall under the PM role?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Running a collaborative roadmapping workshop is a great way to engage everyone and create a shared product roadmap, as the following picture illustrates. 10 Regularly Review and Adjust the Roadmap. The best way to create agreement is to collaborate with the key stakeholders to create and update the product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Join us on March 9, 2021 , for a live virtual workshop to create actionable recommendations on how to deal with the outcome of a forensic Product Backlog analysis. Plus, and that is my favorite activity, run mandatory workshops with all new hires where they have to prototype a new app. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

During our coaching session, we reviewed their work and iterated on it as needed. Working with Reviewers: The First Full Manuscript Judgments. One of the last stages of writing a book is inviting reviewers to comment on the full manuscript. The rest of my reviewers also provided great feedback. Tweet This. I was giddy.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This includes laptops, tablets, phones, and software tools; but it may also include having access to a kitchen and a coffee machine. This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. Workshop Presenters. Find out more!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Transparent development progress : We can see the development progress more clearly and make corrections early if required: The progress is now based on working software rather than a detailed, Gantt chart-based project plan.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Case Study: Leveraging Constraints for Innovation Consider this real-world example of how embracing constraints can lead to significant innovations: A software company faced a major industry shift from text-based to graphical interfaces. Unity workshop: Organize a team activity focused on aligning individual and collective purposes.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

3] Figure 2: Product Team with Stakeholders The stakeholders in Figure 2 share their expertise and contribute to product decisions in collaborative workshops, and they work with the other members to achieve product success. For example, some might believe that due to their seniority, they should have the final say on important decisions.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 25, 2017

Option 1: In the Sprint Review Meeting. Your first option is to work on the product backlog in the sprint review meeting. This creates strong buy-in from the people participating in the sprint review meeting. Option 2: In a Separate Workshop Prior to Sprint Planning. Additionally, the backlog is collaboratively worked on.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

But if the team motivation is declining—as people are being overworked or stressed—or if the code quality is deteriorating—as bugs are accumulating and the code complexity is increasing, alarm bells should go off. Carefully select them by using the factors discussed above, and regularly review and adjust them.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

During the Definition process, a series of workshops are conducted to review the specific problem to be solved (or Job-To-Be-Done), understand what can be done to fix it, design the physical and technical solution, and prepare for the development sprints to start. As-Is and To-Be scenarios) as part of these workshops.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

One the most consistent and frequent lessons that we teach in different workshops is “test early, test often”, also known as lean methodologies. In January 2018, we moved forward to create our third full-day workshop on the much-anticipated topic of Metrics and Analytics. This was wasteful, maddening, and completely avoidable.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2021

So, I’ll offer a few counter-points: The cost of a line of code is significantly more than the effort to build it, which is significantly more than research. You need to support code, explain, run it. Often a line of code locks you in; it’s harder to change code than an idea on a slide. Keep separate. Talk of overlap 2.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Fireart Studio Fireart Studio is a boutique design and software development company with a headquarter in Warsaw, Poland. The team offers a high-quality UI design, UX research and design, wireframing, prototyping, implementation in code, QA, software testing, and product deployment. It was established in 2008 in Poznan.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If your organisation isn’t where it needs to be, the Harvard Business Review provides a helpful 2×2 grid for grading your organisation’s approach to quality management, and a pathway for improving it. This can be performed by one person but could be done in a workshop style meeting. Code Reviews VI. Prioritise? —?prioritise

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a bid to be seen, to be following best practice, or due to a misunderstanding of the concept, the words “validate” and “validation” now get overused?—?and It might be you watch a user over their shoulder, or you might have analytics tracking what your customer clicks in your software. and often, used in places they don’t belong.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

You may find, for example, that some user stories are done and can be reviewed; or you may discover that the team is struggling with some acceptance criteria and requires your input. Therefore, don’t turn it into a product backlog or roadmapping workshop. Additionally, don’t forget to balance your various duties. 135 and 141).

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While I’d like to encourage you to involve development team members and key stakeholders in the visioning, strategising, and roadmapping work, you should lead these activities with the aim to maximise the value your product creates. That’s the job of the development team.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

The democratization of software adoption doesn’t necessarily work at scale. Get together and partner – use each other’s toolkits, embrace collaborative workshops, and cooperate at peer level between teams. Democratizing the adoption of software. If you enjoy our discussion, check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s said that more than two-thirds of software projects fail to deliver expected results. It’s because so many software projects fail to deliver expected results , that we d ecided to go with smoke tests. Our customer success team feared a flood of questions and complaints from dissatisfied customers due to this screen.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

She’s an experienced facilitator of workshops, so at this year’s London #mtpcon she shared some practical ways to get teams to work together more productively. Many of the techniques used to run workshops can also be applied to the day-to-day running of a creative team, says Coward. Social connection.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. Lea was responsible for the product vision and strategy of the Creative Cloud, transforming Adobe from boxed software to one of the most successful SaaS services in the industry. Get those tickets now!

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

For the sake of this article and for the sake of being succinct, here’s what I’ve observed and learnt from all my years in working in software design and releasing multiple products to market. The first substantial software project I was involved in, was a multi-year endeavor that was already in motion when I joined the team.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Hold the team accountable and expect that people do a good job–that commitments are kept and agreements respected, that sprint goals are delivered, that the team adheres to the definition of done and creates software that works, is documented, and tested. Don’t be mad with the team if the sprint goal is missed once. Learn More.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

I’ve worked in B2B tech marketing for about eight years, as a product marketer for a large portfolio of niche software, and now as the marketing manager for Mind the Product’s growing collection of events and community-building initiatives. Just reviewing the good and bad is not enough. Bake in Continuous Improvement.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 4, 2023

Also in May, I transformed our two scheduled (now canceled) in-person workshops into our six-week virtual Master Class. Over the past 18 months, I’ve also started coding again. After reading Ask Your Developer , I realized there was plenty I could automate in my business and decided to dust off my coding chops.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 9, 2021

When I write down, I have the same creative feelings as when I used to write code or tests. I tend to code and test in two modes: Experimentation in problem-solving: Imagining a solution. Writing code and tests. Assessment of the outputs: Code or test review. Assessment of the outputs: Code or test review.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Example 3: The designer autonomously conducted a design review of the App Store, identified a number of quick wins, worked with the team to ship improvements during wiggle week. Affects your team: Ran a workshop to teach other designers in my office how to set up a dev environment so they can ship fixes to UI bugs, too.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Day 1 workshop activities would range from creating a list of Sprint questions to visualizing the customer journey in a single map. Day 1 Workshop Activities. Day 2 Workshop Activities. On Day 3, the team converges to review individual sketches. Day 3 Workshop Activities. Day 4 Workshop Activities.

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Centercode

JANUARY 21, 2020

Downloading or installing your product’s latest software or firmware. “As you’re reviewing the applications, avoid the ones with generic copied and pasted answers. The post Engagement Workshop: How to Recruit Enthusiastic Testers appeared first on Centercode. Logging into the project space. Using the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Edmond: That reminds me of the workshop we ran a while back with members of the engineering team from Medium. When we do code reviews we look for what’s wrong.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Their goal is to facilitate the creation of screens and code faster for designers and developers. Due to Google Material Design’s popularity, ChatGPT knows its guidelines, so it added the Google Material Design styles to the form. In addition, the AI system will be able to scan the code and find places where colors, typography, etc.,

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