Argon Digital

MAY 30, 2023

Mastering Product Management In today’s fast-paced business environment, product management plays a crucial role in driving the success of products and organizations. Understanding the Role of a Product Manager The role of a product manager extends far beyond overseeing the development of a product.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Product operating model FAQs addressed in this article: What is a product-centric operating framework? What are the key practices of a product-centric operating model? How does a product-centric model enhance organizational agility? How does a product-centric approach affect time-to-market?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. 1 Set an Objective. Stay present.

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

MARCH 9, 2023

Product management, product ownership, and business analysis are all crucial roles within an organization that work towards a common goal: delivering valuable products and services to customers. While there are similarities between these roles, they each have distinct responsibilities and skill sets.

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BA Times

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If you are working in products, you certainly have realized product management handle requirements differently. This article presents how discovery techniques popular within product management fit in the three types of requirements: business, stakeholder and solution.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Whether you’re collaborating with, or acting as, a product owner, there are product management approaches that are useful for conducting business analysis. Here are some book recommendations covering everything from the product process and discovery interviews to problem framing and documentation.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Straightforwardly if I have to explain the Product Management, then I would say, “The activities performed throughout the Product Lifecycle is the Product Management.” Who is a Product Manager, Product Owner, Project Manager, and Business Analyst?

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Like a long and winding mountain road, the journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. In this series of articles , we want to share that map: a clear description of what you should expect to see across all five phases of Agile maturity. Phase One – The Agile Team. Agile Training.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #37, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of August 2023. Business Analysis Articles 15 Tips for Outsourced Software Development Success by Karl Wiegers Image by wirestock on Freepik I would love to start August’s digest with another great article by Karl Wiegers.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As customers scale from their loose confederation of Scrum teams to the formality of the Scaled Agile Framework©, features often become a source of confusion and sometimes consternation. In this article, I will draw from my experiences to offer practical tips to make features viable as you implement and execute SAFe©.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” You can find out more about participatory decision-making in my article “ Use Decision Rules to Make Better Decisions ”.).

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban.

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Cprime

JANUARY 2, 2024

Agile metrics FAQs covered in this article: What is the purpose of metrics in Agile? – Metrics in Agile provide evidence of productivity and value creation, record work quality, indicate predictability, highlight workflow and bottlenecks, measure innovation, and track the duration of priority work in the backlog.

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InfoQ Articles

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management.

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InfoQ Articles

JUNE 1, 2022

Pipedrive would not have become a unicorn company by using a standard off-the-shelf agile framework. In Pipedrive's Agile Framework, the Product Managers pitch new ideas and Software Engineers volunteer to lead their Mission Teams. Instead, the company created its own framework.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, however, you might wonder how Disney implements its agile framework at such a large scale. This article will discuss how Disney can use the Scaled Agile Framework® to address the challenges a large organization will face when implementing it in its software development process. The movie business calls it Storyboarding.

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Leading Agile

MAY 26, 2020

When I first thought of writing this article, I struggled with how best to talk to these perceived different approaches. Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. A shift to a product focus. Product Focus. This is where TBM and Agile align.

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InfoQ Articles

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

To be successful, organisations need two things: products and services their customers find valuable and the ability to deliver these products and services well.

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Cprime

MARCH 8, 2022

As an Agile Coach and trainer, one of most common questions I receive is regarding Agile certifications. Many teams that I support are new to the Agile world. In this article, I would like to share some basic information as well as my opinion on which certifications are worth your money and even more importantly, your time.

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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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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A view from business analysis reference guides It’s not new that a good application of business analysis practices (traditional or agile) helps Product Owners improve their day-to-day work. This article explores practices proposed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) that make Product Owners excel in their work.

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InfoQ Articles

JULY 18, 2023

For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn. This article explains how teams can foster such a culture, navigate through the complexities of modern development environments and harness agility to deliver software quickly that fits the needs of users and business sponsors.

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Agilemania

MAY 3, 2022

Agile product management is the most preferred approach to developing new products, services, or solutions. It should come as no surprise since the Agile adoption rate increased from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. . How does agile adoption start? And, how do you start learning Agile? What Is Agile?

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

If you are working on products, you have realized product management handles requirements in a different way. 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.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Not maintaining requirements in an Agile team can lead to several challenges, including scope creep, missed deadlines, low-quality deliverables, and dissatisfied stakeholders. That’s why maintaining requirements is critical to the success of any Agile project. That’s where agile teams come in.

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InfoQ Articles

MAY 23, 2022

Having found what I thought was my calling as an agile coach, I took the tough decision to move sideways into Product Management in the hope of using what I’d learned to one day run my own department. I believed that coming from coaching would allow me to see things others could not and create something special.

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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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Cprime

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Like a long and winding mountain road, the journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. In this series of articles , we want to share that map: a clear description of what you should expect to see across all five phases of Agile maturity. Phase One – The Agile Team. Agile Training.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Agile and Scrum are the two most popular names in the industry. Most organizations think all Agile frameworks come with a one-size-fits-all approach. As a result, they set unrealistic expectations when using Agile practices in their organizations. More than 44% of Agile projects fail due to a lack of experience.

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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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Vitality Chicago

JUNE 28, 2022

In 2021, I first published my list of the best agile books, organized by role. It isn’t easy to limit the list to just 5 best agile books! My list of best agile books may not match your list of best agile books. In fact, to be an effective agile coach, you need a significant amount of learning. That is OK.

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Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

I am frequently asked about the best books for learning about agile and Scrum. I have nearly 100 books on agile-related topics and there are so many new agile books published every year that it is difficult to keep up! As we head into 2021, I thought I would share my lists of best agile books. Product Owners.

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Passionate BA

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Realizing this, I checked how many articles are there about top business analysts you should follow. That is why this article was born. Howard Podeswa Link to LinkedIn Link to Amazon Howard Podeswa is a real thought leader in business analysis and agile. And I found only a couple! Great expert with over 20 years of experience.

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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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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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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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