InfoQ Articles

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Doug Talbot discusses the confusion surrounding Product Ownership / Product Management. He provides some advice on tackling the complexity of creating your own contextualised and personalised product value stream for your organisation or team and using systems thinking and Cynefin for complexity. By Douglas Talbot.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Why is Empathy Important in Product Management? While empathy is a fundamental human quality, there are three reasons that make it particularly valuable for product people. What is Empathy and What is It Not? Empathy entails a warm-hearted, open, and kind attitude. What did I learn?

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

When it comes to product management, we tend to hear a lot more about things like road mapping, requirements gathering, and wireframing because the mechanics of the job are easier to explain. What are Metrics For Product Management? A metric is simply something that helps you measure some aspect of your product.

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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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BA Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Reflecting on my journey from a Junior Business Analyst to a seasoned Business Analyst and eventually evolving into a role where Business Analysis and Product Management intersect, I’ve had the privilege to contribute to organizations as diverse as Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and EPAM, alongside navigating the unique challenges of smaller entities.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Argon Digital

MAY 3, 2023

Increase Your Chances of a Successful Product Launch Product management consulting services have become an essential part of the business world. In this article, we will explore the benefits and value of leveraging product management services for manufacturers with annual revenues over $500 million.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Listen to this article: [link]. Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Figure 2: A Chain of Product-related Goals. OKRs in a Nutshell.

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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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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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InfoQ Articles

MARCH 24, 2021

At the QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam product manager at Red Hat gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. By Bilgin Ibryam.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Regularly assess how your product is doing and how effective your current product strategy is, for example, by holding collaborative strategy reviews, as I describe in more details in the article “ Establishing an Effective Product Strategy Process ”. With Other Product People. Share the Work. Prioritise.

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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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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? Author's Bio.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. If that’s the case for one of your products, consider adding more product people who take on specialised roles like feature owner (a.k.a. Develop Shared Standards.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. If that’s the case for one of your products, consider adding more product people who take on specialised roles like feature owner (a.k.a. Develop Shared Standards.

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BA Times

MAY 24, 2023

As teams shift towards a product management approach, there is often a parallel shift towards experimentation and hypothesis-based product or service development. Increasingly, teams are working to deliver change in an incremental and iterative way.

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Argon Digital

JULY 11, 2023

Whether it’s developing new renewable energy projects, optimizing energy distribution systems, or implementing cutting-edge technologies, businesses in this sector rely heavily on the expertise of their business analysts and product managers.

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InfoQ Articles

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The communities' collective decisions can be compiled into an actionable roadmap and presented to product managers in a systemic and non-confrontational way. By Glenn Engstrand.

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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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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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Passionate BA

APRIL 17, 2023

Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #34, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of the previous weeks. Business Analysis Articles The Ultimate List of Product Metrics by Paweł Huryn Product metrics image from [link] The article presents an extensive list of product metrics to measure the success of a product.

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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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Dataversity

JULY 24, 2023

Data analysts are an important part of modern business, and this article will not argue otherwise. Before being hired as senior product manager of a data integration platform, I had little experience working directly with data tools.

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InfoQ Articles

JUNE 1, 2022

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. It makes a distinction between Mission Teams versus Launchpads and relies heavily on dynamic reteaming. By Jurgen Appelo.

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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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InfoQ Articles

AUGUST 28, 2022

James Ward is a Java Champion and Google’s Kotlin Product Manager. In a podcast, Ward agreed that “people are still trapped in the Java world” and called default mutability in Java the “trillion-dollar mistake”. In this interview, he speaks about the state of Java, JVM languages, mutability, and functional programming.

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InfoQ Articles

JULY 18, 2023

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. For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A reading list for BAs in product teams Many business analysis professionals work in a product setting. Whether you’re collaborating with, or acting as, a product owner, there are product management approaches that are useful for conducting business analysis. Do you know any book that could be part of this list?

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InfoQ Articles

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them. Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. By Aaron Erickson

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Analysts Corner

AUGUST 8, 2023

Can a BA transition to Product Management? This is the first of a series of three articles where I intend to explore possible AI advancements in different tracks: > Keep reading… 2) How does the Artificial Intelligence revolution impact IT Business Analysts? Enjoy reading. What to do first? Who to talk to? What to look for?

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll cover what they are in this article. > Mondoa Collaboration is at the heart of successful project management, especially when it comes to eliciting well-defined requirements. We will delve into the importance of requirements elicitation, its key principles, and how it contributes to delivering successful products. >

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link]. Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. The influence you exercise should therefore be a positive one, see my article Should Product People be Servant-Leaders? Get to know people.

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