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Data-Driven product management: how your business profits

Agile Alliance

To succeed, teams need to embrace data-driven product management. The post Data-Driven product management: how your business profits first appeared on Agile Alliance. In navigating new, unprecedented change, disruption, and fluidity, teams simply can’t rely on guesswork and second-hand interpretations.

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Agile at scale: A transformation journey leveraging SAFe

Agile Alliance

ServiceNow product leader, Thom Gray, Sr. Principal Product Manager, will sit down with Damaris Sevilla, Director, Agile Enablement Office at Assurant, to discuss their digital transformation journey. The post Agile at scale: A transformation journey leveraging SAFe first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

Agile 218
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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Instead of succumbing to the pressure, CIOs should consider collaborative approaches: Empower and inspire agile teams by avoiding rigid delivery roadmaps, highlighting what performance improvement areas are worth focusing on, and giving teams time to reset after major releases.

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

The role of a product manager has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. Numerical literacy is a key skill for effective product managers.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many initiatives and underinvesting in developing digital trailblazers.

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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

CIO

Transformational CIOs continuously invest in their operating model by developing product management, design thinking, agile, DevOps, change management, and data-driven practices. SAS CIO Jay Upchurch says successful CIOs in 2025 will build an integrated IT roadmap that blends generative AI with more mature AI strategies.

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Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential!

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Many organizations feel that Agile has not delivered on its promises. Product management expected a faster time to market, but they still plan large releases stuffed with features of questionable value. Agile doesn’t need to change. Meet business expectations of agility, predictability, and value with Agile.

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All Method, No Madness: Guiding Agile Teams Through Research

Speaker: Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy

Many Product Managers feel quality user research can't keep up with the fast-paced culture of agile teams. However, if you're willing to adapt the right way, you don't have to sacrifice agility or user insights. In this webinar, she'll make specific suggestions around: Team makeup. Setup and logistics. Research Planning.

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How Agile Approaches Change Project, Program, and Product Measures

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Before agile approaches took the world by storm, we used Gantt charts and defects to measure project and program progress. We had trouble measuring product progress until just before release—often too late to change anything. Agile approaches provide us other options now. How to assess the product as the team(s) build it.

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

Product Managers: are you wondering how your teams will work in the future? Join Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy, and learn how to leverage tech and drive agility with citizen development and the no-code movement. How to recognize emerging trends in tech today and leverage them to stay agile for a holistic business strategy.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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The Importance of Having Strong Decision Agility in Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Emily Tate, Managing Director at Mind the Product

As product managers, making decisions is a key part of our roles. We are tasked with ensuring decisions are made across the entire spectrum, from the highly strategic (“Where is our product headed?”) to the very tactical (“Which bug should we fix first?”).

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

In this webinar, leaders in digital transformation and project management will explain their tactics for usage testing and turning customer feedback into actionable insights. Empowering product managers to drive decisions. Agile practices in strategy and process. Multi-channel experiences and product growth.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

Our esteemed speakers will discuss the emerging trends shaping the future of product management and business intelligence. We’ll explore how recent developments are impacting strategic planning and decision-making processes, as well as practical strategies to leverage these trends to the benefit of your organization.