Passionate BA

JULY 3, 2023

Business Analysis Articles The ultimate guide to Product Discovery Techniques by Dr. Bart Jaworski I bet that at some point, you might have been ready to do almost everything to find one great piece to grab knowledge from on a specific topic. Well, it could be your lucky day, as I share a great article about product discovery today!

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Say that you are working on a new brand-new product. Listen to this article: [link].

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The BAWorld

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The idea for a new product stems from a gap in an existing market or a problem that the business owner realizes. The idea ushers the mind to the solution in the form of a product, and the final impact or a future state. This article discusses the common product backlog mistakes to avoid and to help you recognize and fix them.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When I work with teams to help them adopt Scrum, I try to avoid absolute phrases such as “always” or “never”. Try to avoid this mistake and replace this with: “what’s our priority today?”, “What is our goal today?”, As a result, I have decided to share some of these lessons that I have learned while working with teams.

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The BAWorld

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The idea for a new product stems from a gap in an existing market or a problem that the business owner realizes. This article discusses the common product backlog management mistakes to avoid and to help you recognize and fix them. The product requirements are generally represented in the form of user stories.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

The Head of Product Role. A head of product is someone who manages a group of product people—individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product manager or product owner. The responsibilities I share below are based on my work with product leaders and product practitioners.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 13, 2019

Split the Product Backlog. Faced with an overly long and detailed product backlog, investigate if it does describe one cohesive product. Over time, products can serve an increasingly heterogeneous market and provide a large number of different features, some of which may not be used by all users.

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Netmind

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

and create an initial version of the backlog by transforming the existing requirements document into user stories. For this session, I planned activities to create a vision, identify roles, define needs, determine benefits, define the product, and create the initial product backlog. The scope was clear and narrow.

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Vitality Chicago

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Those 10 teams could be aligned to 10 backlogs and the backlogs could contain work for multiple products or customer needs (I am intentionally avoiding the word project since working in projects tends to gum everything up). Nothing in the Agile Values or Principles says the team should be dedicated. But not required.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

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. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective.

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Agilemania

MAY 25, 2022

The Product Backlog is a major Agile and Scrum Artifact. Before we look at the 9 Product backlog mistakes to avoid, let’s do a quick revision of the Product Backlog. . What is a Product Backlog? The product backlog is dynamic and needs to be regularly updated.

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Monday

APRIL 14, 2021

Everyone from project management dabblers to the most hardened Scrum master is prone to this mistake. During sprint planning, the project team reviews the work captured in the product backlog and figures out what items on the list they’re going to tackle in the upcoming sprint. Luckily, there’s a clear warning sign.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Be clear on what you want the sprint to achieve, ensure that the product backlog is appropriately refined (or groomed) , and have its high-priority items ready. Bear in mind that product backlog grooming should be a team effort and that you should involve the development team members in the backlog work.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The goal is to create a healthy work environment and avoid that people are routinely overworked, lose their creativity, make mistakes, and eventually sacrifice their health. A framework like Scrum offers specific techniques that ensure sustainable pace—unfortunately, only for development team members and not for product people.

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Vitality Chicago

JUNE 1, 2021

I know what you are thinking, with so many ways that organizations can undermine their steps toward agility, how could you pick just one single biggest mistake? Well, I keep bumping into this mistake with organizations and increasingly I think it is the single biggest mistake. Buckle up, this is going to take some explaining.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

A digital product is commonly redeveloped for two reasons: It has accumulated too much technical debt or its technologies are outdated, but the product is still needed—be it to generate revenue, support other revenue-generating products, or automate business processes and increase productivity.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Cprime

JULY 13, 2022

What are some Product Manager skills that separate the “ok” from the “great”? This was a question I had to ask myself when asked to join the Product Team for a major corporation. Here is why: The person who asked me to join the product team was fully aware of my skills. Learn from my mistakes. What did I have to change?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

The same is true for my product management expertise: Acquiring it has taken me many years, making plenty of mistakes, learning from other product people, and reading more books and articles than I can remember. Often, it involves stepping outside your comfort zone and making mistakes.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A good example are sprint goals : A sprint goal captures the desired outcome of a sprint and is agreed by product owner and development team. I commonly find that product people believe that they must precisely describe the product functionality and spoon-feed their development teams with detailed user stories.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What is Product Discovery? Product discovery describes the activities required to determine if and why a product should be developed and offered. This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. What makes the product stand out?

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My Agile Partner

JUNE 24, 2020

The product, although developed independently, is not always autonomous from the context. In agile, the forecast is “an image” of the possible progress of the product’s progress; but it’s not a strict guide for the teams. This chart was used by a lot of team to manage all the tasks and the links between them.

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Monday

APRIL 22, 2021

In the early days of software, a certain belief system ruled: a product should never be shipped until it’s absolutely internally perfect. First, researchers analyze the need for the product. The whole thing can take 6 months or more, but at the end, the customer gets a complete, polished product. Get started with monday.com.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

There are two reasons for this: First, you usually require people’s expertise to help you tackle complex issues, for instance, to understand technical risks or the impact on the ability to market and sell the product. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Whizlabs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

At the same time, the DevOps community is constantly looking for opportunities to speed up and optimize development processes while improving productivity. Developers are shifting to the front lines of application security gradually and could achieve improvements in their productivity and security outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? This sounds simple enough.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. What’s more, you’ll struggle to determine the right product backlog items. But don’t stop there. But don’t stop there.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.) That way, they avoid investing too much time and effort in work items that are planned farther out in the future, so they can take lessons learned along the way into consideration when the time comes to address those items. People make mistakes.

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Managed Agile

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This was a one-man project – I played every role you can possibly imagine (webmaster, Scrum Master, Product Owner, you name it – I did it). That became my “Product Backlog”, but it was not prioritized. The goals of this project were to improve my blog site at [link]. Rebecca was very helpful.

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Vitality Chicago

JANUARY 1, 2022

My one sentence summary of the book would be this: Ripley and Miller wrote a book detailing all the ways that Scrum can go wrong, why they go wrong and the lessons learned based on their collective Scrum experience as developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, coaches and managers. Disclaimer, I know Ryan Ripley.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

There are two reasons for this: First, you usually require people’s expertise to help you tackle complex issues, for instance, to understand technical risks or the impact on the ability to market and sell the product. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Head of Product Role in a Nutshell A head of product manages a group of product people —individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product managers or product owners. First, develop the individual product people.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. This includes product roles such as product owner and feature owner. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create.

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Agilemania

MARCH 25, 2022

47% opined increase team productivity . Customer satisfaction through continuous delivery of the product . Adhere to the decided timeframe for the delivery of a working product . Adhere to the decided timeframe for the delivery of a working product . Self-Reflection helps in correcting mistakes and improving performance.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Half of the mistakes made in a project happen because of unclear project requirements. What is an Agile Team In today’s fast-paced business environment, it’s not enough to just deliver products or services to customers. And when projects fail, 70% of them fail because the requirements are not good.

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Clarasys

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Keep reiterating the vision: On one project, a client’s Chief Product Owner suggested we should all get a ‘team tattoo’ of the vision so we wouldn’t forget it… He wasn’t seriously suggesting a trip to the tattoo parlour but this was a pictorial way of presenting the vision! Many programmes have a vision.

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