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How to Deal with Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching

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. Integrating specific coaching principles can enhance the quality of your conversations by guiding dialogue to uncover actionable insights, foster trust, boost collaboration, and drive clarity in your objectives.

Alexander Giurca
on Jan 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

Shift in Sprint Review Mindset: from Reporting to Inclusive Ideation

Sprint Reviews should foster a dynamic environment of creativity, exploration, and continual refinement, where important product and overall business decisions are taken. In this article, we will explore the substantial mindset shift and routine change from a typical reporting-focused to interactive data-driven culture of Sprint Reviews.

Yuliia Pieskova
on Jun 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable

Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left? What can we do to break a grip of the dark side? Let’s find out!

Mykyta Protsenko
on Apr 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

How to Introduce Innovation into the DNA of 21st Century Companies

An innovation mindset is about the tiny little improvements any employee can do; hundreds of simple, low-cost- no-effort activities are in plain sight just waiting for somebody to deploy them. This article provides guidelines that can support you in changing the attitude of employees in your organization providing trust, time, space, teams, a second operating system, MVPs, and co-creation.

Almudena Rodriguez Pardo
on Jul 07, 2022
Culture & Methods

Using the Problem Reframing Method to Build Innovative Solutions

Building products that customers love relies heavily on the problem space: how well you know your audience and how clear are the pain points and main problems your users are facing. This means that the solution to a problem depends on how we frame the problem. This article provides different practices and tools on how to apply problem reframing underpinned by a real case study.

Sebastian Straube
on Mar 10, 2022
Culture & Methods

How the Financial Times Approaches Engineering Enablement

Companies need teams working on infrastructure, tooling and platforms; the way they work has to change so that they do not become a bottleneck. These teams need to be about enabling product teams to deliver business value. Investment in this area pays off as it speeds up many other teams and allows product-team engineers to focus on solving business problems that provide value to the organisation.

Sarah Wells
on Jan 27, 2022
Culture & Methods

Seven Key Insights of Product Management

What a product manager does and how they do it seems like a perennial question, an ongoing discussion, often ending in debate. This changes depending on factors such as the size and culture of the company, the industry or sector, the business model, where the product is in its lifecycle, and the type of product. What doesn’t change is they’re always thinking about customer and business needs.

Sandra Davey
on Jul 15, 2021
Culture & Methods

Facilitating Feedback That's Psychologically Safe

This article focuses on feedback with regards to a plan or proposal - ways to make it easier to give and receive feedback, so the psychological safety of the team can increase. The aim is to give you insights, models, structures and practical things to try, in order to facilitate feedback that boosts psychological safety in your team(s).

Roy Marriott
on Jul 12, 2021
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Competing with Unicorns

The book Competing with Unicorns by Jonathan Rasmusson explores the culture of tech unicorns like Google, Amazon, and Spotify, and dives into the techniques and practices that they use to develop software.

Ben Linders Jonathan Rasmusson
on Nov 09, 2020
Culture & Methods

Dev & UX: How Integrating UX Improves Engineering’s Efficiency and Sanity

User experience (UX) is often misunderstood. Many teams and workers believe it’s just sketching or laying out screens. Misunderstanding UX leads to problems in hiring, processes, team culture, product, and customer satisfaction. Today we’ll learn how to start improving all of these by seeing UX as it really is: engineering’s time and money saver.

Debbie Levitt
on Oct 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

Article Series: Data-Driven Decision Making

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Mar 06, 2020
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making – Product Development with Continuous Delivery Indicators

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Development, Continuous Delivery Indicators can be used to steer the efficiency of the development process.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Feb 26, 2020