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If you are early adopter of agile practices or seasoned Product Owner or Scrum Master, there is a great way to connect and exchange ideas here: https://lnkd.in/g_kzC2pE - This is a great organization but also a community when it comes to applying and utilizing best of agile practices #scrummaster #agile #scrum #productowner

Imagine a roadmap that evolves seamlessly with your product journey. Really speaking, you don’t need to imagine - it’s all possible with an Agile Roadmap. 🚀 But HOW do you actually transition to one? (Especially if you’re currently using a timeline roadmap) Our course will help you with all that and more - trust us, we’ll guide you through it. Sign up.👇 https://hubs.ly/Q02R0tJ70

Imagine a roadmap that evolves seamlessly with your product journey. Really speaking, you don’t need to imagine - it’s all possible with an Agile Roadmap. 🚀 But HOW do you actually transition to one? (Especially if you’re currently using a timeline roadmap) Our course will help you with all that and more - trust us, we’ll guide you through it. Sign up.👇 https://hubs.ly/Q02TY2XT0

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🍎 The Rise and Fall of Google Plus (2011-2019): 🍅 Forced Integration: Google Plus was a social media platform launched in 2011 with the ambitious goal of taking on Facebook. However, Google attempted to force integration with other Google products, like Gmail and YouTube, making it feel less like a standalone platform and more like a forced add-on. This alienated users who felt pressured to use a service they didn't necessarily want. 🍓 Confusing Identity: Google Plus struggled to define its unique value proposition. Was it for casual social interaction like Facebook, or a more professional networking platform like LinkedIn? This lack of clear identity made it difficult for users to understand its purpose. 🍉 Limited Network Effect: Social media thrives on network effects, where a platform's value increases with the number of users. Since Google Plus wasn't integrated with existing social circles, it was challenging to build a critical mass of users, leading to a feeling of being a ghost town for many. 🍒 Focus Shift: Google prioritized other products like YouTube and Gmail, leaving Google Plus with a reduced development team and dwindling resources. This lack of investment signaled to users that the platform wasn't a priority for Google. Ultimately, Google Plus shut down in 2019 due to low user engagement and a failure to compete with established social media giants. ✅ It serves as a reminder of the importance of: ☑ Understanding User Choice: People choose social media platforms based on where their friends and connections are. Forcing users into a new platform rarely works. ✔ Clear Value Proposition: A successful product needs a clear reason for users to choose it over existing options. ♐ Building a Network: Social media platforms rely on network effects – a critical mass of users is essential for long-term success. 🔰 Resource Allocation: Investing resources in development and marketing is crucial for a new product to gain traction and compete in a crowded market. By learning from Google Plus's missteps, developers can create software products that resonate with users and achieve sustainable success. To learn best trait's of Product Development, You can look more Product Managements book Like Free book, The Product Owner Guidebook, few more days, it is free https://lnkd.in/gm3UYjCS

Agile Principle Revision: 7 nth Agile Principle : Working software is the primary measure of progress. .... https://lnkd.in/darssEwh #testing #softwaretesting #agile

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With the launch of our blog, we've hit #HackerNews front page. How did it happened? It was a little unexpected, but we're glad for it. It's one of the ways to let others know about our planning app for creative studios like ours. Hellotime is a self-funded project. Having no paid budget right now means sharing what we’re doing is the way to do our “marketing”. Also, Google didn't know we existed a few months ago. A new product, new brand, and new domain make everything quite challenging. People tell us, "It's the product I was looking for." However, letting them know Hellotime exists is not easy. Here's how we're doing so far: • Everything started in June by teasing our network here on LinkedIn. The response was good. People love to try new stuff and are generally willing to help. • Then, we posted simple product updates to keep the momentum. • We invited most of our users on our waitlist in July. We stopped speaking and started listening to our early users. We gathered precious feedback and realized some relevant gaps that were limiting product adoption. Also, we had our own ideas for new features. • We just focused on improving the product for the rest of the year, with very few public updates. Speaking with our early users helped us better understand our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and the topics they were interested in. This gave us food for thought for our content marketing strategy. • With the new year, we went back to build in public. We released a lot of new features, a new name for our product (from Plann to Hellotime), and we posted regular product updates. • In February, we published the Agile Study Playbook. We did this because we noticed creative studios like us were really interested in finding a way to sell products that allowed them to create quality outputs at a fair price. Having spent years finding a way using Agile Contracts at Moze, we put all our lessons learned in there. The Agile Studio Playbook has been really appreciated, and a lot of people got in touch to know more. • In March, we launched Hellotime’s blog, where we'll share our lessons learned, how we build our product and our point of view on running a creative studio. Our first post on starting a side project got attention of HN. All of this is helping us onboard early users, who are walking alongside us on our path towards a public launch. Good things take time. Transforming an idea into a real product is a long and challenging journey. We know this, and we have much to learn. We are so grateful for the people we are meeting and all the experience we're gathering. If you want to stay updated on how we're building Hellotime, follow me and my design partner, Matteo. —Sergio PS: It seems like the analytics numbers related to the HN launch are quite underestimated. I can tell this from the gap between the tracked events from Plausible Analytics tracked and the number of waitlist requests I got on Mailchimp.

Using Agile language when planning and managing tasks is key to meeting business objectives. Terms like “sprint” and “backlog” ensure clear communication, keeping teams aligned, adaptable, and focused on delivering value. This shared vocabulary drives collaboration and agility, turning strategy into results. #Agile #ProjectManagement #BusinessAgility https://lnkd.in/g6BhRQUT

As a new PM, I put my heart and soul for months into the first product spec I wrote, only to see it shelved for perpetuity.😞 Years since, I’ve written countless artifacts — some which mobilized investments that led to real product offerings and others that were endlessly dissected then never got off the ground. 💡 What factors lead to such stark outcomes? I’d like to share the lessons I’ve learned. To write an actionable PRD: 1️⃣ Articulate the customer problem clearly Product spec without a clear customer and business-oriented problem statement tends to spin up debates that do not move the initiative forward: eg. “Have you considered X instead?” In stating the problem, it’s also important choose a scope that is non-trivial, yet constrained enough to enable focused implementation. Experiment with these frameworks to achieve both clarity and focus: - JTBDs: What are the core problems that the product aims to solve for the target users, based on their needs and motivations? - Success Metrics: What are the key performance indicators that will be used to measure the product’s impact? - Press Release: What is a compelling narrative that highlights the product’s unique value proposition? 2️⃣ Phase requirements into incremental solutions Look for ways to break down implementation into smaller milestones that help you test out your product hypotheses and deliver incremental value. You’ll have a better chance of retaining resources when you have the early wins to stand on (or move on quicker to better ideas, which is another good outcome). For inspiration, here are a sample of janky experiences I’ve shipped before I got enough signals to scale out the product: - Onboarding experiences patched together on Google Forms and Mailchimp - APIs with zero validation and rate limit control - Template builder with no edit or delete functionalities 3️⃣ Remove dependencies from scope Introducing dependencies — especially in large company contexts — sucks all momentum (and joy) out of the building process. Before jumping into endless meetings to align priorities and cycles between teams, navigating the politics of guest engineering arrangements, or rebuilding a foundational component that introduces redundancies — go back to 2️⃣ and look for explicit workarounds that remove the dependency entirely.