Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And what’s the plan to migrate or manage upset customers who bought the x300? Without being present to answer today’s issue, planning the future may be a moot point. Destinations are answers to the question you have in mind when you booked the trip. What did we learn from the X200 migration? It’s Not the Journey….

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Note that you may want to make the measures as specific as you can and state, for instance, the title of the books you intend to read. A learning roadmap like the one above offers four benefits: First and foremost, it gives you a goal-directed plan that focuses your learning efforts. Creating the Learning Roadmap.

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In the 4-Quadrants of Product Ownership , Business Analysis stands together with Product Management , Project Management , and Leadership. Mainly, product management or ownership should use business analysis within the following points: 1. Which communication style is proper for whom? ”

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If the impact due to a change in the existing product, or the creation of a new product/service, is major, then it’s best to have a separate BA who can assess the AS-IS and TO-BE situation for better acceptance, and a separate PM who can plan for all contingencies (an unpredictable future circumstance).

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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! That is OK.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team. Key result 1 : Three product managers are hired. Key result 3 : The product management processes are adapted to preserve the productivity level of the team. What are Product Roadmaps? It depends.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. Involve the team members in setting, reviewing, and adapting the plans and goals.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Planning Horizons and Planning Model. But in product management, there are several horizons that need to be considered—how many depends on the product planning model you use. With the right planning model in place, you can take the next step and consider appropriate timeframes. Re-planning Cadence.

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Insight Software

MAY 14, 2021

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

3] Co-create the Product Strategy and Roadmap The traditional way to engage the stakeholders and secure their support is to present them with a draft strategy and roadmap, collect their feedback, update the plans, and, if necessary, show them the updated version. 4] As its name suggests, the coach supports and coaches the product team.

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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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Step 1: Ensure that you know who the product is for and why people will want to use it. I’ll never forget the day when I suggested to the product manager of a brand-new healthcare product to prioritise its features. Do not add too much detail to your product roadmap , though, to keep it a high-level plan.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong. To be able to guide, mentor, and coach other product people, you should ensure that your own product management “hard” skills are strong and that you don’t have any major gaps in your product management knowledge.

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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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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Traditional vs Outcome-based Roadmaps Before I share the four steps, let me briefly describe the main differences between a traditional, feature- and an outcome-based product roadmap. But in today’s fast-changing digital product space, that’s hardly ever the case.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For those interested in AI and data, there is a list of 5 recommended books to get you started with AI, as well as an opinion on how generative AI is going to change requirements development. > Keep reading… Future and AI 1) How Generative AI Changes Requirements Management. But, how do you get started? What should you learn?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

In reality, however, some product people either aim to please the stakeholders by saying yes to their requests or by brokering compromises. Others do everything they can to make the stakeholders agree to their ideas and plans. Involve people in product decisions but don’t make the mistake of trying to please them.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

1 The Product Roadmap is a Feature-based Plan. Traditional product roadmaps are usually output-focussed plans that map a list of features, like registration, search, and reporting, onto a timeline. A feature-based product roadmap is easily mistaken for a commitment rather than a high-level plan that is likely to change.

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Whizlabs

APRIL 19, 2021

David is also a contributor to IEEE Cloud Computing and has published countless number of articles and books over the years. ” He chose the name of the blog from the Arctic Monkeys song, Old Yellow Bricks, and is a must read for anyone who is planning on expanding their career in cloud computing or virtualization.

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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. The Rock Crusher: Mastering Agile Backlog Management. How to Mitigate This?

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Analysts Corner

AUGUST 8, 2023

Can a BA transition to Product Management? Mondoa A SWOT analysis serves as a strategic planning tool that allows business owners to comprehensively evaluate their company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Enjoy reading. To keep improving it, you need to assess its maturity regularly.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

To put it differently, it’s virtually impossible to determine the right features and capture the right user stories if you don’t know who the users are and why they would want to use the product. Despite its importance, product strategy is not always effectively practised.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

ATTENTION VPs of Finance, Portfolio Managers, and executives. 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. When that happens, ROI plummets.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

While it can be beneficial to use a strategy that helps maximise the value a product portfolio creates, I generally recommend keeping it distinct from the individual product strategies and using separate artefacts to capture the plans. Take a productivity tools suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. It’s therefore important that you align the product team members by setting the right goals. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4]

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply,” wrote Steve Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. recommend in their book Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening. The individual either wants to make a joke and be jovial—or criticise and belittle the plan.

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Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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. And I kind of took on the mantle of product, project management. I saw myself in that book. Just working on an instinct.

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Analysts Corner

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The future state of business processes requires new ways of working that result in a great deal of change, and it is important to understand what change means to different groups of stakeholders, so as to design and implement an effective change management plan to help teams to get used to the new ways of working.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 10, 2023

For every sprint, we need Sprint Planning checked. As Shane Parrish, author of the bestselling book – The Great Mental Models – puts it. How soon could you come to a consensus on the menu compared to if you pre-planned the meal on your own? Management (LPM) Training. Advanced Product Owner.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Let the ScrumMaster take on this role. Learn More.

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Insight Software

APRIL 12, 2021

Speaking at a webinar dedicated to exploring the current perception of tax teams, the barriers that exist to playing a more strategic role, and how to create an environment for strategic thinking, Jamie Eagan, VP of Product Management at insightsoftware, said there has rarely been a more challenging environment for tax professionals. “In

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EBG Consulting

JANUARY 15, 2019

Not having agreement on what your product has broad implications for product strategy, internal organizational design, and ongoing operations. Whether you are faced with this challenge or want to take a step back to improve your product management practices, the first step is to define your product.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

John Boddie’s book, Crunch Mode: Building Effective Systems on a Tight Schedule , provides a recipe for doing this on purpose. It includes advice about planning for employee burn-out and burning them out quite deliberately. In reality, one product may be supported by several teams.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Break larger items into smaller ones by leveraging the insights gained from exposing product increments to the users. Ensure that the high-priority items are ready for sprint planning: the items should be clear, feasible, and testable. Learn More. Title picture published on Pexel under the Creative Commons Zero license.

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