Short for Product Operations, a function that supports product management teams by streamlining processes, managing tools, and ensuring efficient operations. Important for optimizing product management activities and improving cross-functional collaboration.
A team responsible for developing and maintaining the foundational systems and services that support other teams and products. Crucial for ensuring scalability and efficiency across the organization.
A business culture that prioritizes product development and innovation as the key drivers of growth and success, often involving cross-functional collaboration. Crucial for fostering innovation and ensuring that product development is aligned with business objectives.
A cross-functional team that is given the autonomy, resources, and authority to make decisions and take ownership of the product's success, focusing on solving user problems and achieving business outcomes. Important for fostering innovation, accountability, and agility, leading to more effective product development and higher user satisfaction.
A cross-functional team focused on solving customer problems and achieving business outcomes, with a strong emphasis on discovery, experimentation, and continuous improvement. Crucial for creating valuable and innovative products that meet user needs and drive business success through iterative development and close collaboration with stakeholders.
A broader, more informal community of interest that spans across the entire organization, focusing on shared topics such as agile practices or UX design. Valuable for cross-functional learning, knowledge sharing, and promoting a unified approach to common challenges.
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is a comprehensive approach to managing projects across an entire organization. Essential for coordinating complex, cross-functional projects and achieving organizational objectives.
Product-Oriented Delivery (POD) is a methodology that focuses on organizing teams around products rather than projects. This approach is essential for enhancing product focus, agility, and cross-functional collaboration.
A collection of multiple squads working in the same domain or on related projects, typically consisting of 40-150 people. Important for ensuring alignment and coordination across related squads, fostering a larger community with shared goals.
The process of making a new feature available to users, often involving coordination between development, marketing, and support teams. Essential for managing the rollout and communication of new features to users.
The strategies and tools used to ensure that sales, marketing, and customer service teams have the necessary resources to effectively promote and support a product. Essential for aligning internal teams and ensuring successful product adoption and customer satisfaction.
A team that supports other teams by providing specialized expertise and tools to improve their performance. Crucial for enhancing overall team effectiveness and efficiency.
An organization that places the product at the center of its operations, ensuring that all departments align their efforts to support product development and success. Crucial for creating a cohesive and focused approach to product development and business growth.
A management framework that organizes employees into small, cross-functional teams (tribes) to enhance agility, collaboration, and innovation. Important for fostering a collaborative and agile work environment.
A senior role responsible for guiding the product management team and overseeing the development and strategy of products. Crucial for ensuring successful product development and alignment with business goals.
A role responsible for overseeing multiple product managers and ensuring alignment and collaboration across different product lines within an organization. Crucial for coordinating efforts and driving strategic product development.
The practice of promoting and defending the value of design within an organization or community. Crucial for ensuring that design considerations are prioritized and integrated into decision-making processes.
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile product development to multiple teams working on a single product. It provides a minimalist, large-scale agile approach that maintains the simplicity and effectiveness of Scrum while addressing the challenges of coordination and integration in multi-team environments.
A role focused on overseeing the development, launch, and lifecycle of digital products, ensuring they meet market needs and business goals. Essential for integrating digital product strategy and development.
The understanding and proficiency in the principles, practices, and processes of design. Essential for empowering individuals to effectively participate in and critique design processes.
A group of individuals with similar skills or expertise, spread across different squads, who come together to share knowledge and best practices. Crucial for maintaining technical excellence and fostering professional development within specific disciplines.
The process of defining a product's objectives, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with market needs and business goals. Important for setting a clear direction for product development and ensuring strategic alignment.
Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. Essential for aligning organizational goals, improving focus and engagement, and driving measurable results across teams and individuals.
A role responsible for ensuring that products and services are delivered efficiently, on time, and within budget. Crucial for managing project timelines, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
An approach that applies Agile principles to IT operations, emphasizing iterative development, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Essential for enhancing flexibility, responsiveness, and collaboration in product design and development processes.
A creative thinking technique where the typical process is reversed to generate new ideas by considering the opposite of conventional assumptions. Useful for fostering innovation and challenging existing assumptions in problem-solving.
A detailed strategy outlining the timeline, milestones, and deliverables for a product release, ensuring that all activities are aligned and completed on schedule. Essential for coordinating efforts and ensuring a successful product launch.