Vitality Chicago

JUNE 28, 2022

In 2021, I first published my list of the best agile books, organized by role. I am a big fan of book learning and I am happy that my recommendations are serving a need. This includes some newly published books as well as some I finally read. It isn’t easy to limit the list to just 5 best agile books!

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Additionally, as the person in charge of the product, you typically have to contribute to the meeting, share your expertise, and actively shape product decisions. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. For a more detailed discussion, see my article Use Decision Rules to Make Better Product Decisions.).

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 10, 2025

I came across the book “Radical Product Thinking” from Rhadika Dutt and I couldn’t help thinking how the elements that are part of the… Continue reading on Analysts corner

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EBG Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

In my recent Modern Agile Show interview with Joshua Kerievsky, we discussed product management in an agile context, product discovery and delivery, collaboration, and more. The book Requirements by Collaboration (2002) first introduced the “6Ps”: Purpose, Participants, Principles, Products, Place, Process.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Destinations are answers to the question you have in mind when you booked the trip. When the postcards pile up, book the trip and the time and the team you need. All they need now is a market, a customer and a product to carry with them. It is, however, more difficult than it may seem. It’s Not the Journey….

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Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I am excited to share with you my discussion with agility and resilience coach Anjali Leon. This is our first agile coach interview in what I plan as a series of discussions intended to bring some diversity of thinking and opinions and to amplify voices that may not otherwise be heard. I am calling it Fresh Agile Voices or FAVs!

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

But with effort, resilience, and patience, as well as the guidance from others, I have managed to become a reasonably skilled writer. This leads to a fixed mindset , where people see themselves as good or bad at something—be it writing, singing, drawing, or product management—and they believe that there is not much they can do about it.

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Vitality Chicago

APRIL 30, 2021

Human Resources may not be what comes to mind when you think Agile. Patty McCord was the Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and her book Powerful, Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility describes the strategic partnership she shared with CEO Reed Hasting through the growth years of Netflix. How can HR enable agile?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whether you’re currently using Jira Align or you’ve been considering the four-time leader for enterprise agile planning tools , you’ll want to learn more about the tool’s exciting new features and reports around budgeting and funding. The traditional funding model isn’t agile. The problem with agile funding.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Passionate BA

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with a bunch of seasoned business analysts about education, books, resources to learn from, etc. Author of numerous books, a software development consultant, speaker, trainer, songwriter, and just a great person! Renowned book author. Learning from Karl is always a pleasure.

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Agilemania

APRIL 20, 2021

Agility at scale topics appears in most of the conversation nowadays, either to solve multiple teams coordination issues working on the same initiative, in the name of business agility, or enterprise agility. There are numerous frameworks those claim to solve or provide solutions for agility at scale.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 28, 2023

This time we’ve got a collection of articles on BA skills and processes including a discussion on different techniques a BA should have, a role of BA in Agile, tools to focus on as a newstarter. It’s for product managers, user researchers, design thinkers, and everyone who facilitates as a part of their job.

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Logistics Predictive Analytics Enterprise Architecture Business Analysis 130

Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

Minimum Viable Product #1. Writing a book is a complex and at times challenging endeavour: it took me over two years to write and publish my latest book. At the same time, I wanted to test that the product would create enough value for its readers before writing the actual book. Minimum Viable Product #2.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This time, we’ve got a collection of stories about business analysis, data, agile, and product and project management. We have some interesting write ups about agile, including the future of BA in the world of agile and scrum, and a very poetic comparison between writing good user stories and writing good haiku.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

by Yulia Kosarenko All images by the author This article delves into the fundamental difference between a system and a solution in the context of business analysis and product management. Internal Product Management is Hard. At the same time, a solution is a specific answer to a problem within that system.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

Initially, it was an open meeting, but only development team members and ScrumMaster were allowed to talk (see Agile Software Development with Scrum ). In the book Agile Project Management with Scrum , the meeting is changed to allow product owners to contribute (see pp. 135 and 141).

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A lot of articles on business analysis career development, BA tools & techniques, Agile, AI and Enterprise Architecture this time. Plus as a bonus some curated lists of books recommended for product managers, BAs, and architects. There are different types of prioritization efforts required for product development.

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Enterprise Architecture Artificial Intelligence Business Analysis Business Analysis 130

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. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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EBG Consulting

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I recently had the pleasure of being part of the “Women in Agile” podcast ( available here ). In the podcast, I discuss infusing product management with agile principles and practices. She reminds us of the women who have had a large impact on the Agile community from the very beginning.”.

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

Frameworks like Dual Track Agile from Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired” influenced organizations to split their efforts into product discovery and delivery. The Discovery track is all about quickly generating validated product backlog items, and the Delivery track is all about generating releasable software.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Identifying and addressing the key risks in the product strategy is best done iteratively, as I explain in more detail in my book Strategize. Enter the Cycle.

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Innovation Product Management Product Management Information Strategy 168

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While the role is discussed in many books and articles, I find that it is still not always correctly understood. What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. You are more prone to make mistakes and choose wrong product decisions.

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Agile Backlog Management Project Management Product Management 142

Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

2] The Power-Interest Grid was originally developed by Ackerman and Eden and published in their book Making Strategy. I cover the tool and its application in product management in my book How to Lead in Product Management. [3] 4] As its name suggests, the coach supports and coaches the product team.

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Product Management Product Management Planning Stakeholder Management 102

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

asks Julie, the product manager. Is it the product manager, the people present, or the management sponsor? The following picture shows five common decision rules, which I’ve adapted from the book “ The Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner et. Decision Rules.

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Product Management Product Management Agile Planning 102

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Once your product no longer exhibits a significant amount of uncertainty and risk, is growing steadily, or has started to mature, a Kanban-based process may be the right choice, as the following picture illustrates. You can also use Kanban for product discovery and strategy validation activities, as I recommend in my book Strategize.

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The BAWorld

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Agile is one such discipline that keeps evolving at a reasonable pace and hence agile practitioners must always be on their toes to be relevant and perform their role effectively. Agile blogs act as a valuable source of the latest and most up-to-date information on various subject areas from experienced professionals.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Ask the Scrum Master or agile coach to facilitate so you can focus on shaping the vision and you don’t have to ensure that everyone is heard and that nobody hijacks the decision-making process. See my article Making Effective Product Decisions for more advice on how to decide together with stakeholders and dev teams.).

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Vision Product Management Product Management Agile 139

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

Business Architecture 143

Business Architecture Agile Project Management Government 143

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. It also maximises the chances that everyone involved in managing the product has the same understanding. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach.

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Vision Portfolio Management Product Management Product Management 150

Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

Revenue-generating products typically become profitable when they have achieved product-market fit and start to grow. A product manager’s (or owner’s) job is therefore different from a project manager’s: product people are in it for the long run—assuming that the product prospers and grows.

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Digital E-Commerce User Experience Product Management 92

Agilemania

JANUARY 10, 2023

For many years Scrum has been one of the go-to frameworks for teams adopting or trying to adopt agile ways of working. Some teams have been successful, while others struggle to leverage the benefits of Scrum, achieve agility and deliver value to their stakeholders. Certified Agile Coaching. Agility in the Enterprise.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We will delve into the importance of requirements elicitation, its key principles, and how it contributes to delivering successful products. > When a business analyst or a product owner is eliciting requirements, there is a shift from eliciting stakeholders’ wishes to discovering better and faster ways to solve stakeholders’ problems.

Enterprise Architecture 130

Enterprise Architecture Artificial Intelligence Logistics Process Modelling 130

Cprime

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations adopting the SAFe ® framework often encounter challenges that can hinder their agility and throughput. As a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Release Train Engineer (RTE) in an enterprise, understanding these challenges and their solutions is crucial for optimizing flow and achieving strategic objectives.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

This explains, at least partly, why product strategy is not practised more effectively. [2] 2] I follow Marty Cagan and Teresa Torres in viewing product discovery as a workflow rather than a phase or stage. Note that this perspective is in line with an agile development framework like Scrum.

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